Latest in Pulitzer Prize

Darnella Frazier, the teenager who recorded the killing of George Floyd on her cell phone, was awarded a Pulitzer Prize special citation today. In announcing the honor, the Pulitzer organization cited Frazier “for courageously recording the murder of George Floyd, a video that spurred protests against police brutality…

Katori Hall’s comedy-drama play The Hot Wing King, which was given a world premiere by Off Broadway’s Signature Theatre Company just before the pandemic shutdown, was awarded the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Drama today. Hall, a Memphis native currently Tony-nominated for writing the book for Tina: The Tina Turner Musical…

With Broadway theaters and other stages shuttered by the coronavirus pandemic, the Pulitzer Prize board has amended its rules of drama prize eligibility to include online productions and shows that were postponed or canceled due to the COVID shutdown. "The spread of the COVID virus has closed theaters but has in no…

Public radio’s This American Life won the first Pulitzer Prize for audio reporting, for an episode they did in partnership with the category’s two other winners, the Los Angeles Times and Vice News. The episode, The Out Crowd, was recognized for “revelatory, intimate journalism that illuminates the personal impact of…

Jonathan Gold, the Los Angeles Times critic whose love of the obscure ethnic food shops of Los Angeles turned on a generation to tastes they may not have otherwise discovered, has died. He was 57 and passed from pancreatic cancer at St. Vincent Medical Center in Los Angeles tonight, according to his wife, Times arts…

Eight times a week, Carlo Albán gets beaten senseless with a baseball bat. It’s been going on for two years, and even though it’s a stage fight, he has the bruises to prove just how real it plays. Brutal and violent, it’s a difficult scene to watch: There’s an air of inevitability to it, as there is to the entirety…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline's Jeremy Gerard and Jujamcyn Theatres majority owner and president Jordan Roth talk about the state of the industry, the only stipulation being no holds barred. GERARD: I’m feeling unusually protective of my critical colleagues this week, and especially Ben Brantley and Charles Isherwood at The New…

UPDATE Tuesday evening: Adds information about the finalists and the jury, below. Earlier update: 12:30 p.m. with comment from Lin-Manuel Miranda: Miranda released this statement: "It is a tremendous honor to even be considered for this very prestigious award. Quiara [Alegria Hudes] and I were elated to have been…

Between Riverside And Crazy, Guirgis’ comic drama about an elderly ex-policman and the motley of family and friends who weave in and out of his Riverside Drive apartment, won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. L.A. Times television critic Mary McNamara received the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. The 18-member Pulitzer…

ABC News and the Center for Public Integrity appear to have reached an accommodation over  that heavily awarded black-lung disease investigation. ABC News President James Goldston this morning sent out an email announcing that Brian Ross, Matthew Mosk, Rhonda Schwartz and the ABC News Investigative team had been…

Bruce Norris, whose Clybourne Park won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, returns to Playwrights Horizons next spring with The Qualms, which opens Sunday (July 13) at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company. The New York edition will begin previews May 22, 2015 at the off-Broadway nonprofit. Director of both is the very…

Weekly Column: Few things in this world are more painful than the realization that an estrangement has occurred between two news organizations who had worked amiably together investigating doctors and lawyers squashing benefits claims of miners dying of black lung, at the behest of the coal industry. That is just what…