Interviews

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Is it 1972 or 2023? 'The Inferior Sex' at Trinity Rep Tackles Timeless Gender Politics​

Amplifying New Plays and Playwrights: Freedom Hill by Jacqueline E. Lawton

Hotel Berry: Inspiration on Court Street​

‘Hotel Berry’ Brings Largely Untold Story of Athens’ Black history to Forum Theater Stage

‘Hotel Berry’ production celebrates local history of Black social entrepreneurship, empowers Black theater creatives

‘Hotel Berry’ production to tell untold stories of Athens, highlight Black community

Center Stage: Jacqueline E. Lawton and Glenn Hinson

Reckoning and re-imagining in Warren County - Playwright Jacqueline E. Lawton Helps Community Members Examine Warren County’s History

Everyman Theatre’s Behold, A Negress: Interview with Playwright Jacqueline E. Lawton

Jacqueline E. Lawton’s New Drama, 'Edges of Time,' Honors the Life of the Pioneering Journalist and Activist Marvel Cooke

​Marvel Cook’s Legacy Lives on in New Show from Playmakers: 'Edges of Time'

Diversity Spotlight: Jacqueline Lawton​

At the Hangar, Theater Finds Ways to Pop through the Pandemic

Theater Of The Everyday And Marginalized With Jacqueline Lawton

Breaking the 'Digital Divide': PlayMakers Shows this Season to Happen Virtually

​From on Stage to Online: Local Theatre Group Hosts a Virtual Play Reading

​Narrative of Omission: Jacqueline E. Lawton
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IAH fellows expand field of African American studies

Jacqueline E. Lawton Speaks on Knowledge, Power, and Showing Up

​Through Theatre, UNC Playwright Shines Spotlight on Underrepresented Communities

XIX: New play development with Jacqueline E. Lawton, JaMeeka Holloway-Burrell, Jules Odendahl-James

ARDEO: Narrative medicine and new play development with Jacqueline E. Lawton and Jules Odendahl-James

Marvel Cooke, a journalist for working people with Jacqueline E. Lawton and Kathryn Hunter-Williams

Writing Plays And Teaching Drama With Jacqueline Lawton - UNC Institute for Arts and Humanities
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Me Too Monologues: Using Theater for Social Change

​Dramatists Guild Regional Report: North Carolina featuring Jacqueline E. Lawton

​Decolonizing Texts, Words, and Communication: Conversation with mia susan amir, DeLesslin “Roo” George-Warren, Jacqueline E. Lawton, and Lisa Cooke Ravensbergen

Writing Plays And Teaching Drama With Jacqueline Lawton - UNC Institute for Arts and Humanities 

Separating Art from Artist: UNC Professor Insights

​The Unkindest Cut: Theater, President Trump And The Politics Of Performing Arts  

‘Raisin’ dramatist Lorraine Hansberry’s Time is Now​

Jacqueline Lawton’s Ambivalent Faith in ‘Intelligence’

NEA Art Works Podcast: Intelligence 

Why Intelligence playwright, Jacqueline E. Lawton, was uniquely qualified to write a Valerie Plame-inspired play

A Play About Valerie Plame Has Come to Washington

Arena Stage Brings New Meaning to ‘Political Theater’

Politics and Power Onstage at Arena Stage

To Fear or Not to Fear: Community and New Play Producing

Responding to the Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series: Jacqueline E. Lawton

DG National Report: North Carolina - Interview with Jacqueline E. Lawton by Kim Stinson​

Preview: The Hampton Years

Race, Arts, War: Virginia Stage Company brings local history to life through "The Hampton Years"

Play set at Hampton Institute Tackles the Arts and Discrimination

TCG in Cleveland: Shining Light on a Future That’s Already Here

An Interview with Jacqueline E. Lawton, Author of Noms de Guerre

Jacqueline E. Lawton: Adapting Wizard of Oz and What’s Next

Theatre Lab: Collaborating for a Worthy Cause

Adventure Theatre: A New Yellow Brick Road

How a Play Inspired by Abortion Stories Blues the Line Between Art and Activism

A 'Vagina Monologues' About Abortion Could Be Coming To A College Near You

Premiering in D.C. Tomorrow: A Vagina Monologues for Abortion Stories

‘Out of Silence: Abortion Stories’

“Every time I tell my story, someone else will come up and tell me theirs”: How the 1 in 3 Campaign is turning abortion stories into art

What’s holding up appointment of new theater director at NEA?

See you in September

In Theater, Diversity Crucial But Ever-elusive

NEA: Looking Forward: Theater Edition

Meet the Playwrights of Arena Stage’s ‘Playwrights’ Arena’: Part 1: Jacqueline E. Lawton

Playwrights Arena: The Cost of War

HowlRound Feature: Writing Towards the Specific

Dramatist Guild National Report - Playwrights Arena

NEA Art (Journalism) Talk with Jacqueline E. Lawton

Playwrights' Arena: See You in September

#Trayvon: The Artist Response, Role and Responsibility

The Hampton Years: The Art of Growing a Voice 

Theater J’s The Hampton Years Looks at Black/Jewish Relationships

DC playwright Jacqueline Lawton on The Hampton Years, getting its first production at Theater J

'The Playwright's Playground Series': Part Three

‘The Playwright’s Playground Series’: Part Two

‘The Playwright’s Playground Series’: Part One

Jacqueline E. Lawton's “THE HAMPTON YEARS” Features HBCU Artists

D.C. playwright finds inspiration in a tale of persecution and creativity

The Hampton Years: 1940s Arts Drama Replays in 2013

Theatre Professor To Debut Play

Local History on Stage: A Conversation with Jacqueline E. Lawton, Playwright of OUR MAN BEVERLY SNOW

Interview with Playwright Jacqueline E. Lawton

WI: JACQUELINE LAWTON: Nathan Cummings Young Leaders of Color Award Recipient

Art History, Center Stage: IRAAA Interview with Jacqueline E. Lawton

JACQUELINE E. LAWTON: Nathan Cummings Young Leaders of Color Award Recipient

Adam Szymkowicz: I Interview Playwrights Part 463
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African American Playwrights Exchange Interview

The Omnivore's Buffet: D.C. Playwrights on the Locally Grown Festival

A Drama Queen: This Playwright Has Quite a Tale to Tell

The Play's the Thing at Play in a Day

Playwright Interview: All About Love

Play Celebrates Untold Stories of Black Inventors

Get to Know Jacqueline Lawton