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The Pulitzer Prize for Drama: “‘night, Mother”
1983 Pulitzer winner “’night, Mother” by Marsha Norman
Marsha Norman Wikipedia page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsha_Norman
‘night, Mother Wikipedia page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27night,_Mother
‘night, Mother script
https://bookshop.org/books/night-mother-a-play-9780374521387/9780374521387
“Marsha Norman’s Triple Play” by Stephanie Coen, American Theatre magazine
https://www.americantheatre.org/1992/03/01/marsha-normans-triple-play/?jr=on
The Kennedy Center Theatre Conversations: Marsha Norman
https://www.kennedy-center.org/video/education/theater/theatre-conversations-marsha-norman/
“Marsha Norman Finds Her Lost Key to Broadway” by Alessandra Stanley, The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/21/theater/theater-marsha-norman-finds-her-lost-key-to-broadway.html
Original 1983 review by Frank Rich
https://www.nytimes.com/1983/01/12/theater/theater-night-mother-at-harvard.html
2004 revival review: “Mother-Daughter Angst, With Death in the Wings” by Ben Brantley
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/15/theater/reviews/motherdaughter-angst-with-death-in-the-wings.html
“My Mother the Clairvoyant” review of novel by May Hempel, The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/24/books/my-mother-the-clairvoyant.html
Review/Theater; A Surgeon’s Crisis of Faith In a Marsha Norman Work” by Mel Gussow, The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/01/16/theater/review-theater-a-surgeon-s-crisis-of-faith-in-a-marsha-norman-work.html
“Anacostia Playhouse’s ”Night Mother’ Tackles Love, Suicide, Stigma” by Micha Green, The Washington Informer
https://www.washingtoninformer.com/anacostia-playhouses-night-mother-tackles-love-suicide-stigma/
The Count
https://the-lillys.org/the-count-2
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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.
