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EXCLUSIVE: Jeremy O. Harris, the Tony-nominated author of Slave Play, has been named the presiding playwright for the 2023 Yale Drama Series Prize, one of the theater world's most prestigious playwriting prizes. As the presiding playwright, Harris, a Yale alum, becomes a judging panel of one to select an emerging…

Slave Play will arrive in Los Angeles after all. Playwright Jeremy O. Harris announced last night that his Tony-nominated comedy-drama will remain on the line-up at Center Theatre Group's Mark Taper Forum in light of commitments made by the venue to expand opportunities there for women, trans and non-binary…

UPDATED with CTG response: Playwright Jeremy O. Harris said Tuesday that he intends to pull his Tony-nominated Slave Play from the upcoming lineup at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles due to the theater company’s dearth of scheduled productions by female playwrights – a scarcity acknowledged by the management of…

Slave Play, the incendiary Jeremy O. Harris play that went rejected by Tony Award voters Sunday night two years after dazzling critics and helping start theater’s conversation about race, will return to Broadway for a limited engagement this fall. Harris made the surprise announcement at a post-Tony party for his play…

Slave Play playwright Jeremy O. Harris will donate a collection of 15 plays by Black playwrights to 53 libraries and community centers across the country, a donation made in lieu of sending Slave Play scripts to Tony Award voters. O. Harris made the announcement last night on Late Night with Seth Meyers, telling the…

Sony Music Masterworks has announced a strategic investment in Seaview, the theater production company behind Broadway’s Slave Play by Jeremy O. Harris and the Jake Gyllenhaal-Tom Sturridge double bill Sea Wall/A Life. Under the new agreement, Masterworks is acquiring a 50% ownership position in Seaview and will…

The creative team and producers of Jeremy O. Harris’ Slave Play have donated $10,000 to the National Bailout Fund in support of Black Lives Matter, and have challenged others in the theater community to do likewise. “Our stages are dark but the resources we have can be utilized on the world’s stage now,” reads part of…

Slave Play playwright Jeremy O. Harris has entered a two-year overall deal with HBO, and is developing an untitled pilot as well as returning to the HBO series Euphoria as co-producer. The deal was announced today by Francesca Orsi, executive vice president, HBO Programming. "Jeremy is a singular talent whose…

Broadway playwrights Jeremy O. Harris (Slave Play) and Matthew Lopez (The Inheritance) will be honored by the Human Rights Campaign with each receiving this year’s HRC Equality Award. HRC, the nation’s largest LGBTQ civil rights organization, announced the honors today. The awards will be presented at the 19th Annual…

Broadway settled into its new winter clothes last week, with recent arrivals My Name Is Lucy Barton, Grand Horizons and A Soldier’s Play padding the roster as Oklahoma! and Slave Play joined the raft of recent post-holiday departures. In all, the 27 productions (two fewer than the previous week) grossed $30,443,388…

EXCLUSIVE: Jeremy O. Harris, the playwright behind the acclaimed stage play Slave Play, has signed on to script a film adaptation of Ales Kot’s 2019 graphic novel The New World for Warner Bros and Populace. Released via Image Comics, the comic is described as a genre-bending sci-fi that follows the lives of two lovers…

For the first time since 2014, LGBTQ group GLAAD will include Broadway productions in its annual media awards categories, the organization said today. With such major recent Broadway productions as The Inheritance, Jagged Little Pill and Slave Play featuring prominent gay characters and themes, GLAAD said the time is…