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The Pulitzer Prize for Drama: “Picnic”
1953 Pulitzer winner “Picnic” by William Inge
Picnic Wikipedia page
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Picnic_(play)
William Inge Wikipedia page:
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Inge#cite_note-32
Original New York Times Review
https://www.nytimes.com/1953/03/01/archives/inges-picnic-penetrating-portraits-of-some-people-in-a-small-kansas.html
“PICNIC’ REVISITED; Life in a Kansas Community Honestly Drawn in William Inge’s New Play “by Brooks Atkinson, The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/1953/08/30/archives/picnic-revisited-life-in-a-kansas-community-honestly-drawn-in.html
Variety of Feminine Types in a Small Town Will Be Seen in a New Play” by William Inge, The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/1953/02/15/archives/picnic-of-women-variety-of-feminine-types-in-a-small-town-will-be.html
“Boy Actor to Broadway Author; About the Boy Actor Who Became an Author” by Milton Bracker, The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/1953/03/22/archives/boy-actor-to-broadway-author-about-the-boy-actor-who-became-an.html
2013 Revival Review
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/14/theater/reviews/picnic-at-american-airlines-theater.html
Video excerpt from 2013 revival
https://www.nytimes.com/video/theater/100000001997599/excerpt-picnic-on-broadway.html
“Picnic” – Original B’way Cast on “The Ed Sullivan Show”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ews2rEzRJM8
Movie on Amazon Prime:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/0KIU947S485HF9ADO8C9GFGV2Z/
“A Disturbed Genius Seen Through the Eyes of an Intimate Friend: William Inge and Barbara Baxley” by Diana Bertolini, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
https://www.nypl.org/blog/2013/06/28/william-inge-barbara-baxley
“William Inge: The Cost Of Disregard” By Dan Sullivan, Los Angeles Times
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-04-06-ca-24737-story.html
“Channeling Inge: Marcia Cebulska, Catherine Filloux, Caridad Svich, Lydia Stryk and Alice Tuan with Adam Kraar” The Brooklyn Rail
https://brooklynrail.org/2008/03/theater/creating
“Commentary: The case of a mysterious Edward Albee play that has resurfaced in L.A.” by Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2022-12-07/commentary-mysterious-edward-albee-play
New York Times obit
https://www.nytimes.com/1973/06/11/archives/william-inge-playwright-is-dead-william-inge-who-won-53-pulitzer.html
Four Plays: Come Back Little Sheba; Picnic; Bus Stop; The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
https://bookshop.org/p/books/four-plays-come-back-little-sheba-picnic-bus-stop-the-dark-at-the-top-of-the-stairs-william-inge/12475806?ean=9780802132093
William Inge Center for the Performing Arts
https://ingecenter.org/about/
Guest: Thomas Hischak
https://www.flagler.edu/directory/faculty–staff/thomas-hischak.php
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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.
