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: “Of Thee I Sing”
Of Thee I Sing Wikipedia page
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Of_Thee_I_Sing
George S. Kaufman site:
https://www.georgeskaufman.com/play-catalogue/15-play-ca
Gershwin brothers site:
http://gershwin.com/
Library of Congress “Of Thee I Sing” page: https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200000013/
Great American Songbook Foundation “Of Thee I Sing” page:
https://thesongbook.org/about/news-media/the-songbook-blog-items/teaching-notes-politics-on-stage/
“Broadway to Mainstreet: How I Learned to Sing,” podcast hosted by Laurence Maslon
http://broadwaytomainstreet.com/podcastgen/?name=2016-09-12_bms_of_thee_i_sing2.mp3
“How History Upstaged The Gershwins” by Arthur M. Schlessinger, The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/05/theater/how-history-upstaged-the-gershwins.html
Updated 1972 TV production with Carroll O’Connor, Cloris Leachman, Michele Lee and Jack Gilford
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb2gcl94mIA
New York Times review of the 1972 broadcast
https://www.nytimes.com/1972/10/24/archives/tv-of-thee-i-sing-cbs-adaptation-of-31-musical-retains-basic.html
Encores 2006 full production audio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMoimPeUshM&t=62s
“City Center’s Encores! Presents ‘Of Thee I Sing’” review by Charles Isherwood in The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/13/theater/reviews/13sing.html
“Act One” by Moss Hart
https://bookshop.org/books/act-one-an-autobiography/9781250050892
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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.
