The winner will receive a cash prize of $25,000 and a signed print by artist Willem de Kooning, created especially for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Each of the additional finalists will receive an award of $5,000. The ceremony will take place on March 2 at Playwrights Horizons.
Complete casting is set for Marsha Mason's upcoming Bucks County Playhouse benefit readings of Kaufman and Hart's The Man Who Came to Dinner at the Playhouse in New Hope on February 5 and WP Theater on February 10.
As previously announced, the cast will be led by Walter Bobbie and Brooke Shields as Sheridan Whiteside and Lorraine Sheldon.
They will be joined by John Behlmann as Bert Jefferson, Jimmy Brewer as Richard Stanley, Jill Eikenberry as Harriet Stanley, John Glover as Beverly Carlton, Ruth Gottschall as Sarah, Tessa Grady as June Stanley, Larry Marshall as Dr. Bradley, Marsha Mason as Mrs. Dexter, Jill Paice as Maggie Cutler, Patricia Richardson as Mrs. Stanley, Lance Roberts as Professor Metz, Grant Shaud as Mr. Stanley, Jeffrey Schecter as Banjo, David Shih as John, and Prudence Wright Holmes as Miss Preen. Additional roles will be played by Brad Forenza, Jeremiah Maestes and Edward O'Blenis. Steve Sanpietro will read stage directions.
Casting for multiple productions of Jocelyn Bioh's School Girls; or, The African Mean Girls Play has been announced.
At Berkeley Repertory Theatre, where the dark comedy will be directed by Awoye Timpo, the company will include Afua Busia (Ama), Santoya Fields (Eloise), Omozé Idehenre (Headmistress Francis), Paige Mays (Gifty), Gabriella Momah (Nana), Al-Nisa Petty (Mercy), Lily Santiago (Ericka), and Akilah A. Walker (Paulina). it will run March 19-May 3.
At the Goodman Theatre, Adia Alli (Gifty), Katherine Lee Bourné (Ama), Kyrie Courter (Ericka), Ashley Crowe (Nana), Ciera Dawn (Paulina), Tiffany Renee Johnson (Mercy), Tania Richard (Headmistress Francis), and Lanise Antoine Shelley (Eloise), will star in Lili-Anne Brown's staging, running March 7-April 12.
In the play, the reigning queen bee at Ghana's most exclusive boarding school sets her sights on the Miss Universe pageant, and a new student unexpectedly changes the game.
• Broadway Records will release the original cast recording of Andrew R. Butler's Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of the Future digitally and in stores on Friday, March 27.
• The McKittrick Hotel has extended its immersive production of The Woman in Black at the venue's Club Car pub through April 19.
• André De Shields, Kate Burton, and Theatre Development Fund will receive Red Bull Theater's 2020 Matador Awards for Excellence in Classical Theater, presented at the company's gala on March 30 at the Bowery Hotel.
• Ben Platt will performance the 31st annual GLAAD Media Awards on Thursday, March 19.
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