An ‘Inheritance’ Deferred
In his long-gestating gay-legacy epic, Matthew Lopez speaks back to a work that helped shape him, ‘Howards End.’
All Stories About Matthew Lopez
A Gay ‘Inheritance’ That’s Generations in the Making
Matthew Lopez’s two-part epic uses E.M. Forster as a template and is playing in London, but this sweeping, imperfect play is unmistakably American.
DCPA Announces Playwrights for 13th Annual New Play Summit
The festival will include works by Sigrid Gilmer, David Jacobi, Kemp Powers, Barbara Seyda, José Cruz González, Matthew Lopez, and Lauren Yee.
Get Me Rewrite: The Colorado New Play Summit Is a Developing Story
Expanding its offerings to a second week, the Denver Center’s annual new-play meeting gives featured writers more time to get their plays in shape—many of them for the mainstage.
Look at All the Lonely People in ‘Reverberation’
Matthew Lopez’s newest play, coming soon to Hartford Stage, tackles the intimacy gap in contemporary relationships.
Paying Playwrights More Than Play Money
Writers can’t live on commissions and royalties alone, so some theatres are adjusting the way they compensate them. Are these gestures enough to turn the tide?
Awards for November 2014
Stephen Adly Guirgis wins the $200,000 Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award, Samuel D. Hunter wins the MacArthur “Genius” grant, and more awards and prizes round-up from our November 2014 issue.
National Medals of the Arts, New Dramatists Playwrights and More Awards
The Public Theatre in Lewiston Maine is named “best theatre in Maine”; Kimber Lee is the Aetna New Voices Fellow at Hartford Stage in Connecticut; and more awards.
Matthew Lopez Delves into Drag, Hometown in ‘Legend of Georgia McBride’
New play receives first premiere at Denver Center Theatre Company.
Matthew Lopez’s Sense of Place
In his new play ‘Somewhere,’ the playwright revisits family history to tell a forgotten New York story.
