Monthly Archives: April 2015

2015 Drama Desk Award Nominations

Written on April 29, 2015 at 1:51 pm, by

The 2014-2015 Drama Desk Awards nominations were announced April 23, 2014. Among those nominated are Tamburlaine the Great for Outstanding Revival of a Play; Cesar Alvarez (An Octoroon) and Arthur Solari & Jane Shaw (Tamburlaine the Great) for Outstanding Music in a Play; and Mimi Lien (An Octoroon) for Oustanding Set Design. Each year, the Drama Desk votes special awards to recognize excellence…Read More »

Drama League Nominations Consider AN OCTOROON, TAMBURLAINE THE GREAT, and John Douglas Thompson

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The Drama League 2015 Award Nominations were announced on Tuesday, April 21st. Among those considered are our productions of Tamburlaine the Great for Outstanding Revival of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Play, and Soho Reps’s An Octoroon for Outstanding Production of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Play. John Douglas Thompson will also be considered for the Distinguished Performance Award.…Read More »

The New Yorker on Soho Rep.’s AN OCTOROON and “Reading Racist Literature”

Written on April 15, 2015 at 2:09 pm, by

The New Yorker staff writer Elif Batuman examines how we interact with the historical texts with uneasy themes, focusing on the dialogue between Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s AN OCTOROON and Dion Boucicault’s THE OCTOROON. Read the full article here.