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All the Drama: Playwright Paula Vogel on “How I Learned to Drive,” 1998 Winner, Pulitzer Prize for Drama

All The Drama is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of deep dives into the plays that have won The Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

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The Pulitzer Prize for Drama: “How I Learned to Drive” by Paula Vogel

How I Learned to Drive Wikipedia page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_I_Learned_to_Drive

Paula Vogel Wikipedia page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Vogel

Bard at the Gate
https://www.mccarter.org/tickets-events/bard-at-the-gate/

“How I Learned to Drive” script
https://bookshop.org/books/how-i-learned-to-drive-stand-alone-tcg-edition/9781559365642

Original New York Times review by Ben Brantley

https://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/17/theater/a-pedophile-even-mother-could-love.html

“Pulitzer Prize Winner Paula Vogel on the Alaskan Summer That Inspired How I Learned to Drive” by Paula Vogel, Broadway.com
https://www.broadway.com/buzz/160117/pulitzer-prize-winner-paula-vogel-on-the-alaskan-summer-that-inspired-how-i-learned-to-drive/

“The Enduring Lessons of ‘How I Learned to Drive” [Vogel’s introduction to TCG’s paperback edition of the play in 2018]

“Playwright Vogel returns to campus for Ph.D.,” Cornell Chronicle
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2016/03/playwright-vogel-returns-campus-phd

“Paula Vogel: Borrowing Time and Toasting the Future,” American Theatre

“Playwright Paula Vogel Has Already Left Her Mark on Modern Theater”
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/playwright-paula-vogel-has-already-left-mark-modern-theater-n748441

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Jan Simpson is a theater journalist who writes the blog Broadway& Me and hosts the BroadwayRadio podcasts Stagecraft and All The Drama. She has twice served as a Pulitzer Prize juror.


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