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The Pulitzer Prize for Drama: “Harvey”
1945 Pulitzer winner “Harvey,” by Mary Chase
Mary Chase Wikipedia page
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Chase_(playwright)
Harvey Wikipedia page
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_(play)
“Pulling Harvey Out of Her Hat: The Amazing Story of Mary Coyle Chase” by Mimi Pockross
https://bookshop.org/books/pulling-harvey-out-of-her-hat-the-amazing-story-of-mary-coyle-chase/9781538131688
Mary Chase Obit, New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/10/23/obituaries/mary-chase-74-playwright-who-wrote-harvey-dead.html
Original New York Times review of Harvey
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/368114-original-review-harvey
“Mary Chase: The Woman Behind “Harvey” by Marsha Sorotick, Irish American magazine
https://www.irishamerica.com/2016/10/mary-chase-the-woman-behind-harvey/
‘The Invisible Rabbit in the Room: Mental Illness and Mary Chase’s Harvey” by Joshua Chamberlain, The Purple Rose Theatre Company
https://www.purplerosetheatre.org/uncategorized/invisible-rabbit-in-the-room/
“The message of Court Theatre’s Harvey? Don’t worry—be happy” review of 2017 production by Tony Adler, Chicago Reader
https://chicagoreader.com/arts-culture/the-message-of-court-theatres-harvey-dont-worry-be-happy/
Hope Is a Thing With Long, Fuzzy Ears by Charles Isherwood, The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/15/theater/reviews/harvey-with-jim-parsons-at-studio-54.html
“‘Harvey’ is NOT a Comedy” by Kali Tuttle, Movie Babble
https://moviebabble.com/2020/12/20/harvey-is-not-a-comedy/
Mary Coyle Chase documentary by the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame
https://vimeo.com/677925007
“Say Hello to Harvey” by Ron Fassler
https://ronfassler.medium.com/say-hello-to-harvey-3d83bab4f7a9
“Say Hello to Harvey” Demo
https://footlight.com/product/say-hello-to-harvey-demo-22-songs/
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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.
