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Lynn Nottage to Take Part in Professional Theatre Women's Oral History Project

The program chronicles and documents the contributions of significant theater women in all fields.

Lynn Nottage, writer of plays including Intimate Apparel and Ruined.
Lynn Nottage, writer of plays including Intimate Apparel and Ruined.
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The League of Professional Theatre Women will present a conversation with two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage on Monday, February 4, in the Bruno Walter Auditorium at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

The latest in its Oral History Project series, the program chronicles and documents the contributions of significant theater women in all fields. Nottage will talk about her life and prolific career with theater journalist Elisabeth Vincentelli.

Nottage's plays include Ruined, Mlima's Tale, Intimate Apparel, and By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, as well as the upcoming musical The Secret Life of Bees, among other works.