The award marks the second Pulitzer for playwright Lynn Nottage, who previously won in 2009 for 'Ruined,' about women in the Democratic Republic of Congo. By David Rooney Chief Film Critic Lynn ...

Jovan Davis as Chris, left, talks with Christopher James Murray as Evan, Chris' parole officer in Lynn Nottage’s “Sweat, ” running through March 31 at Capital Repertory Theatre in Albany. The play ...

ERIE – Hunched over and weeping, Fred Kimbrew had to look away from the stage. He would say later that it felt as if he were seeing the pain in his own life being re-enacted. And in a way, he was. The ...

There’s no need to ask the factory workers who come alive in “Sweat” how they feel about NAFTA, or global trade or, perhaps, even the presidential election. You see, these are people based on ...

If you go to the theater a lot, you’ve spent many nights in one of those grungy neighborhood taverns populated with colorful, often very loud, and usually drunk characters. People who go the theater a ...

ERIE, Pa. — Hunched over and weeping, Fred Kimbrew had to look away from the stage. He would say later that it felt as if he were seeing the pain in his own life being reenacted. And in a way, he was.

It was cold outside the Miller Center for the Arts in Reading, Pennsylvania, on Dec. 19, but inside the performance space the audience was dripping with “Sweat.” The just-concluded off-Broadway play ...

This review of Lynn Nottage’s “Sweat,” which opened on Broadway Sunday with the same cast, first appeared in November with the opening of the original Public Theater production. If you go to the ...