In this episode, Randy and Tyler discuss the 2005 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, "Doubt, a Parable" by John Patrick Shanley. From Encyclopedia.com: Set at a Catholic school in the Bronx in 1964, Doubt concerns an older nun, Sister Aloysius, who does not approve of teachers' offering friendship and compassion over the discipline she feels students need in order to face the harsh world. When she suspects a new priest of sexually abusing a student, she is faced with the prospect of charging him with unproven allegations and possibly destroying his career as well as her own. To help buil ..read more

In this episode, Randy and Tyler discuss the 1930 Pulitzer Prizewinning Play, The Green Pastures by Marc Connelly. From Encyclopedia.com: The Green Pastures follows stories of the Bible, such as Adam and Eve, Noah and the flood, Moses and the exodus from Egypt, and the crucifixion of Christ, but places them in a rural black southern setting. Thus, one of the opening scenes takes place at a “fish fry” in “pre-Creation Heaven,” during which God spontaneously decides to create Earth and man. God eats boiled pudding, smokes cigars, and runs Heaven out of a shabby “private office” assisted by Gabr ..read more

In this episode, Randy and Tyler discuss the 1928 Pulitzer Prizewinning Play, Strange Interlude by Eugene O'Neill. From Encyclopedia.com: The play covers a period of twenty-five years in the lives of mostly upper-middle-class East Coast characters. It centers on Nina Leeds, a passionate, tormented woman whose fiancé was killed in World War I and who spends the remainder of her life searching for an always-elusive happiness. This is a very long play, lasting over five hours in performance. The story is not especially complex, and the length of the play derives from O'Neill's revival of two th ..read more

In this episode, Randy and Tyler discuss the 2007 Pulitzer Prizewinning Play, Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire. CONTENT WARNING: Death of young child, grief, suicide, drug abuse We were thrilled to have Julie Arnold Lisnet with us as a special guest to discuss this play. Like all of our podcast episodes, this episode contains a lot of spoilers. If you have yet to read or see this play, please be aware of this. Corrections: During this episode, Randy mentioned the incorrect years of Ten Bucks Theatre's productions of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Rabbit Hole. Those were performed i ..read more

In this episode, Randy and Tyler discuss the 1929 Pulitzer Prizewinning Play, Street Scene by Elmer Rice. From Stageagent.com: The claustrophobic reality of living in a six-story walk-up in the Lower East Side of Manhattan is the focus of Elmer Rice’s Street Scene. With the neighbors all knowing everyone’s business, and constantly passing judgement on everyone’s behavior, it is easy to see how this melting pot can quickly become dangerous. On two scorching hot days in June 1929, the pot finally boils over for Frank Maurrant. The rumors about his wife having an affair have become too loud and ..read more

Note: This episode contains explicit language. In this episode, Randy and Tyler discuss the 2008 Pulitzer Prizewinning Play, August: Osage County, by Tracy Letts Synopsis from StageAgent.com: August: Osage County centers around the Weston family, brought together after their patriarch, world-class poet and alcoholic Beverly Weston, disappears. The matriarch, Violet, depressed and addicted to pain pills and “truth-telling,” is joined by her three daughters and their problematic lovers, who harbor their own deep secrets, her sister Mattie Fae and her family, well-trained in the Weston family a ..read more

Trigger warnings: Sexual assault, prostitution, alcohol consumption, war In this episode, Randy and Tyler discuss the 2009 Pulitzer Prizewinning Play, Ruined by Lynn Nottage. Synopsis from StageAgent.com:  Set in a small mining town in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lynn Nottage’s Ruined follows Mama Nadi, a businesswoman who is trying to stay afloat in a world torn apart by civil war. The war has ravaged her country, and especially the young girls who have literally been torn to pieces by soldiers on both sides of the conflict. Mama Nadi takes “damaged” girls into her brothel/ba ..read more

In this episode, Randy and Tyler discuss the 1927 Pulitzer Prizewinning Play, In Abraham's Bosom by Paul Green. Synopsis from Concord Theatricals:  In this story, [playwright] Paul Green, a product himself of a rural upbringing in North Carolina, tells the post Civil War story of the deeply troubled young man, son of a tyrannical white land owner and a poor black woman, who sees education as the means of raising himself and his African-American community out of the bondage of segregation. He strives heroically to fulfill his dream, but in the end is brought down by his own rage at the ra ..read more

In this episode, Randy and Tyler discuss the 2011 Pulitzer Prizewinning Play, Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris. Synopsis from Stageagent.com:  Clybourne Park is a razor-sharp satire about the politics of race. In response to Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, playwright Bruce Norris set up Clybourne Park as a pair of scenes that bookend Hansberry’s piece. These two scenes, fifty years apart, are both set in the same modest bungalow on Chicago’s northwest side that features at the center of A Raisin in the Sun. The first scene takes place before and the secon ..read more

In this episode, Randy and Tyler discuss the 1926 Pulitzer Prizewinning Play, Craig's Wife by George Kelly. Synopsis from Playbill.com:  A materialistic woman's marriage crumbles because of her obsession with preserving her possessions. ******* IN OUR NEXT EPISODE ******* Join us as we discuss Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris , winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Synopsis from Stageagent.com:  Clybourne Park is a razor-sharp satire about the politics of race. In response to Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, playwright Bruce Norris set up Clybourne Par ..read more