fbpx
Wikipedia

Tina Howe

April 08, 2024

Mabel Davis "Tina" Howe (November 21, 1937 – August 28, 2023) was an American playwright. In a career that spanned more than four decades, Howe's best-known works include Museum, The Art of Dining, Painting Churches, Coastal Disturbances, and Pride's Crossing.

Tina Howe
Howe in 2015
BornMabel Davis Howe
(1937-11-21)November 21, 1937
New York City, U.S.
DiedAugust 28, 2023(2023-08-28) (aged 85)
New York City, U.S.
OccupationPlaywright
EducationSarah Lawrence College (BA)
Sorbonne University
Columbia University
Chicago State University
Period1959–2017
Spouse
Norman Levy
​
​
(m. 1961; died 2022)​
Children2
ParentQuincy Howe (father)
RelativesMark Antony De Wolfe Howe (grandfather)

Her plays won numerous awards, including the 1998 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play for Pride's Crossing,[1][2] which was also a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.[3] Coastal Disturbances was nominated for the 1987 Tony Award for Best Play.[2][4]

Early life edit

Mabel Davis Howe was born in Manhattan on November 21, 1937.[5] Howe came from a literary family. Her grandfather, Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe, published over 50 books and won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1925.[6] Her father Quincy Howe wrote and broadcast the evening news on CBS Radio from 1942 to 1947, and then on ABC television. He was the author of the three-volume history, A World History of Our Own Times.[7] Her uncle, Mark DeWolfe Howe, taught constitutional law at Harvard Law School and was Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.'s law clerk and biographer.[8] Her aunt, Helen Howe, was a successful monologist and novelist.[9] Howe was called Tina since her childhood, so when she was eighteen, she changed her name from Mabel Howe to Tina Howe.[5]

Howe's family placed an emphasis on its members' reading and writing: "Thanksgivings and family occasions were always about, 'What are you reading, what are you writing, what are you working on, what poetry are you interested in?'"[10] When Howe was ill with hepatitis, her father visited her every day in the hospital, reading James Joyce's Ulysses to her during his lunch break.[10][11]

Howe graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York, in 1959. As an undergraduate, she wrote her first play, Closing Time; her classmate, Jane Alexander, later directed and acted in it.[12]

After graduation, she and Alexander traveled to Europe; Alexander to act and study mathematics at the University of Edinburgh and Howe to study philosophy at Sorbonne University and write. When Howe saw Eugène Ionesco's La Cantatrice Chauve at the Théâtre de la Huchette, "It changed my life", she said. "It was like a bolt of lightning going through my head."[13]

Following her return from Europe, Howe did graduate work at Columbia University Teacher's College and Chicago Teachers College.[14] She started teaching high school in Monona Grove, Wisconsin, while her husband (teacher and writer Norman Levy) was doing graduate work[15] and then in Bath, Maine, which is where she said she learned her craft through running the school's drama department, a position she agreed to take if they would produce her plays.[16]

Career edit

Themes and style edit

Literary critic and novelist C. W. E. Bigsby wrote that "art is plainly a central point of reference" for Howe, noting those themes in Painting Churches and Coastal Disturbances, and added that "food and consumption" are also important themes in her work. In his book Contemporary American Playwrights, Bigsby wrote that she had a "commitment to experimentation" and quotes Howe as saying said that she is "firmly entrenched in the Absurdist tradition."[17] Frank Rich, in his New York Times review of Painting Churches commented that the play "is in the dreamiest impressionistic spirit."[18] The Variety reviewer of Painting Churches also noted that the play is a "group portrait painted in a soft, impressionistic style."[19]

The CurtainUp reviewer of Coastal Disturbances wrote of Howe's work: "Like all of Howe's work, the play's charm stems from its quirky characters. In this case joie de vie, despair, love, lust, anger and fear come and go like the waves hitting the shore in foamy bursts or gentle ripples."[20] Writing in the Sarah Lawrence Magazine, Celia McGerr Regan described Howe's authorial voice: "Howe developed a voice that has been variously described as farcical and absurd, impressionistic and airy, graceful and perceptive, lyric and literate, vivid and language-driven, whimsical and demented. Odd things happen in the face of the recognizable: Trees grow up inside and through a New York State farmhouse (One Shoe Off)..."[21]

Ben Brantley in reviewing Birth and After Birth for The New York Times, observed "The suggestion is of a natural world that thwarts and ultimately devours the ambitions and pretensions of the civilized. This is a theme that Ms. Howe would develop in later works, sometimes artfully (Coastal Disturbances), sometimes clumsily (One Shoe Off), but always in a style that was distinctively her own."[22]

Howe noted about her time in Paris: "The most profound thing that happened to me that year ... was seeing The Bald Soprano by Ionesco. That exploded me all over the place." Ionesco, Beckett and Pirandello continued to be her heroes.[23]

Howe was a great admirer of Glenn Gould, saying, "I write my plays to Glenn Gould. I cook the kids' spaghetti dinners to Glenn Gould. I pay the bills to Glenn Gould."[24]

Full-length plays edit

Howe's first full-length play to receive a professional production was The Nest, which premiered in summer 1969 at the Act IV Theater in Provincetown, Massachusetts. It was directed by Larry Arrick and the cast included Sally Kirkland and Richard Jordan among others. From Provincetown, the show was transferred Off-Broadway to New York's Mercury Theater, opening on April 9, 1970.[25]

Howe later recalled, "My first play, 'The Nest,' was about courtship and how women compete with each other to land a husband. That play closed [off-Broadway] in one night."[26] The play follows the trials of three young women competing for husbands at a dinner party, and during the course of the play, one of the women takes off her clothes and dives into a huge wedding cake, and is licked clean by one of the male guests. The Nest, Clive Barnes of The New York Times wrote in his review, "must be on any reasonable short list of the worst plays I have ever seen."[27]

Her play Museum, with a cast of 55 characters, premiered at the Los Angeles Actors' Theatre on April 29, 1976,[28] and was then presented Off-Broadway by Joseph Papp at the Public Theater, opening in February 1978, in a production directed by Max Stafford-Clark. A cast of 18 actors played a total of 44 characters. The play takes place at a group art show of three contemporary artists, titled The Broken Silence. The Public Theater production featured Dianne Wiest, Kathryn Grody and Larry Bryggman.[29][30] A CurtainUp reviewer noted that Howe "explained in her author's note for the play's premiere at the Shakespeare Festival, her large cast of characters was created to provide directors and producers with endless staging possibilities."[31] In her note in the script (published by Samuel French), Howe wrote: "It is my hope that any group wanting to present Museum use the large cast size as a challenge and not as a restriction. The play was written to serve the versatility of actors."[29]

The play was revived Off-Broadway by the Keen Company in 2002, directed by Carl Forsman. In his Village Voice review, Michael Feingold wrote, "This is the most enchantingly tesserated play ever written … . If Mozart had been a TV producer, this is what a 'Candid Camera' segment on art might have looked like."[32]

The Art of Dining is set in an exclusive restaurant (and home) moving from the kitchen of the chef/owner, to the dining room, where her husband is the maitre d', to the individual tables of the characters, observing their action and interplay while waiting for and eating their meals. The play was first presented Off-Broadway by Joseph Papp at the Public Theater in December 1979, in a production directed by A. J. Antoon with a cast featuring Kathy Bates, Ron Rifkin and Dianne Wiest, who went on to win the 1980 Clarence Derwent Award and Obie Award.[33]

Howe herself won an Obie Award in 1983 for distinguished playwriting for her plays The Art of Dining, Museum and Painting Churches.[34] From New York, The Art of Dining moved to a run at the Kennedy Center.[35]

Howe's next play, Painting Churches, premiered on February 8, 1983, at Second Stage Theater, under the direction of Carole Rothman.[36] The cast included Marian Seldes, Frances Conroy and Donald Moffat. It transferred to the off-Broadway Lambs Theater where it ran from November 22, 1983, through May 20, 1984, playing 206 performances.[37] In this production Marian Seldes was joined by Elizabeth McGovern and George Martin. Painting Churches won several Outer Critics Circle Awards, including Best Off-Broadway Play, Best Actress (Marian Seldes) and the John Gassner Playwriting Award.[38] The play was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama.[39]

In 1986, Painting Churches was filmed for PBS's American Playhouse, directed by Jack O'Brien. That cast included Sada Thompson, Donald Moffat and Roxanne Hart.[40] It was revived off-Broadway by the Keen Company in March 2012, directed by Carl Forsman, starring Kathleen Chalfant, John Cunningham, and Kate Turnbull.[41][42]

In November 1986, Howe's next play, Coastal Disturbances premiered at Second Stage, under the direction of Carole Rothman.[43] The play was set on a private New England beach.[44] Annette Bening and Tim Daly led the cast. The play was transferred to the Circle-in-the-Square Theater on Broadway in March 1987.[43] It was nominated for a Tony award for Best Play along with Carole Rothman for Best Direction and Annette Bening for Best Actress.[45][5] Frank Rich of The New York Times hailed it as "Hilarious", "erotic" and "intoxicating".[46]

This was followed by Approaching Zanzibar, which shows the Blossom family traveling across the United States to visit Olivia, a sick relative. The play premiered at the Second Stage Theatre on April 8, 1989, directed by Carole Rothman, and starred Jane Alexander as Charlotte Blossom, Harris Yulin as her husband, Angela Goethals as her daughter and Bethel Leslie as her dying aunt.[47] The play was produced at the Southwark Playhouse, London, in August 1997. The reviewer for The Independent wrote: "... a zany, expertly mimed sequence throws the tensions of cooped-up family car travel into rollicking relief when, in fantasy, the parents and children swap roles. But, like so much off-Broadway fare, the play insists on coating the pill of pain in the sickly sugar of false reassurance."[48]

One Shoe Off opened Off-Broadway in April 1993 in a Second Stage Theatre production at the Public Theater. The Variety reviewer described the play as "the dining-room play that dissolves in an emotive crossfire of accusation, revelation and reconciliation", "offbeat, sometimes ferociously funny" with an "over-the-top tone".[49]

Her play Pride's Crossing, described by Playbill as a "family-inspired memory play" was produced Off-Broadway at Lincoln Center from December 7, 1997, to April 5, 1998[50] after an engagement at the Old Globe Theatre (San Diego) in 1997. The play was revived Off-Broadway in 2004.[50][51] She received the New York Drama Critic's Circle Award for Best Play in 1998 for this play.[50][51]

Rembrandt's Gift premiered at the Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville in 2002,[52] directed by John Rando and starring Penny Fuller and a revised version was produced by the Madison Repertory Theatre (Wisconsin) in September 2005.[53] The three person play focuses on an "unlikely, poignant and very funny visit by the great 17th-century Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn.[15][54]

Howe wrote English translations of Eugène Ionesco's The Bald Soprano and The Lesson, which were produced at the Atlantic Theater Company in September 2004.[55] The plays were directed by Carl Forsman and featured Jan Maxwell, John Ellison Conlee, Michael Countryman and Robert Stanton.[56]

The Atlantic Theater Company presented Birth and After Birth Off-Broadway at the Linda Gross Theater, opening in September 2006 in previews. Described by Playbill as "a play about parenting", the play was written in 1972; it was directed by Atlantic associate artistic director Christian Parker.[57] The play was first presented at the Wilma Theatre (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) in September 1995, after being rewritten and having readings, and a workshop at the California State University Summer Arts Festival. The reviewer of this production wrote: "The play bears the mark of a youthful playwright. Howe's brilliant mind is teeming with enough ideas to fill several plays, and her themes and style at times suggest an early fascination with older playwrights such as Ionesco and Albee."[58] Birth and After Birth is "a comedy... in which a self-centered, tantrum-throwing monster of a 4-year-old is played by a fully grown adult male."[59]

Chasing Manet opened Off-Broadway at Primary Stages in April 2009, starring Jane Alexander and Lynn Cohen. The play takes place in a nursing home, with the "rebellious painter" and a Jewish woman becoming friends and planning on escaping to go to Paris aboard the QE2.[60] Jane Alexander was a friend of Howe's from Sarah Lawrence College.[11]

Howe provided the text for the interdisciplinary work Cheri, conceived, directed and choreographed by Martha Clarke, which opened Off-Broadway in a Signature Theatre Company production at the Pershing Square Signature Center-Irene Diamond Stage on November 19, 2013, in previews.[61]

Her full-length play Singing Beach premiered Off-Broadway at HERE Arts Center on July 22, 2017, in previews in a limited engagement, produced by Theatre 167. Directed by Ari Laura Kreith, the cast featured Erin Beirnard, Devin Haqq, Jackson Demott Hill, John P. Keller, Tuck Milligan, Elodie Morss, and Naren Weiss. The play involves the effects that a Category 4 hurricane has on the Sleeper family and is concerned with climate change.[62]

Howe's plays have been produced in regional theatres in the United States, such as Louisville,[52] Los Angeles,[29] Stockbridge, Massachusetts,[20] Annapolis, Maryland [63] and San Diego,[51] as well as in London.[48] Her plays have premiered in venues such as the Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville (Rembrandt's Gift, 2002)[52] the Public Theater (The Art of Dining, 1979),[33] and the Second Stage Theatre (One Shoe Off, 1983).[49][64]

Other edit

Howe had taught master classes at New York University, UCLA, Columbia University and Carnegie Mellon.[65]

Howe was a Visiting Professor of playwriting and Playwright in Residence at Hunter College in New York City, retiring in 2015. She was the head of the two year MFA playwriting program which began in 2010.[11][66][67][68] (Annie Baker has taken the position formerly held by Howe.[69])

Howe was a member of the council of the Dramatists Guild of America from 1990.[70][71]

Several of her works can be read in the volumes Coastal Disturbances: Four Plays by Tina Howe and Approaching Zanzibar and Other Plays.[72]

Her papers are held by the Harvard Theatre Collection at Houghton Library.[73]

Personal life edit

Howe was married to historian Norman Levy from 1961 until his death in 2022.[5] He taught American History at the University at Albany from 1967 to 1973.[70] The couple had two children, and lived in the Bronx after years on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.[5][23][10]

Howe died in Manhattan on August 28, 2023, at age 85, from complications of a hip fracture sustained in a fall.[5][74]

Plays edit

Awards and honors edit

Howe received a Rockefeller Grant (1983), two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, a Guggenheim fellowship (1990), and an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature (1993).[74] Howe was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters (L.H.D) degree from Whittier College in 1997[82][83] and Honoris causa, Doctor of Letters from Bowdoin College (1998).[84][85][70]

Howe received the William Inge Theatre Festival Award in 2005.[86] In 2007 she received the Horton Foote Award, presented at the Baylor University Horton Foote American Playwrights Festival.[84]

In 2012, she received the 3rd Annual Lilly Award Lifetime Achievement Award. The Lilly Awards were created to "recognize the extraordinary contributions made by women to the American Theater."[87]

Howe was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame for 2017. At the ceremony in November 2017 at the Gershwin Theatre, she was introduced by her long-time friend Jane Alexander, who said "She has passion, wit and absurdity.... [her plays are an] operatic dive into the depths.... She writes as no one else does about women..."[88]

List of awards edit

References edit

  1. ^ "'Pride's Crossing' Listing, 1997" lortel.org, accessed September 6, 2015
  2. ^ a b . Wheaton College. Archived from the original on November 6, 2009. Retrieved November 4, 2011.
  3. ^ "Pulitzer Prize for Drama" Pulitzer.org, accessed September 5, 2015
  4. ^ "Tina Howe Broadway (Awards)" Internet Broadway Database, accessed August 26, 2015
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Genzlinger, Neil (August 30, 2023). "Tina Howe, Playwright Who Mixed Heartache And Humor, Dies at 85". The New York Times. p. B11. Retrieved August 30, 2023.
  6. ^ "Barrett Wendell and His Letters, by M. A. Dewolfe Howe (Little)". www.pulitzer.org. Retrieved March 12, 2017.
  7. ^ Howe, Quincy (January 1, 1949). A world history of our own times. 1, 1. New York: Simon & Schuster. OCLC 314506365.
  8. ^ "Mark De Wolfe Howe Dies; Lawyer, Historian Was 60 | News | The Harvard Crimson". www.thecrimson.com. Retrieved March 12, 2017.
  9. ^ "Helen Howe, Satiric Monologist Who Became Writer, Dies at 70". The New York Times. February 2, 1975. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 12, 2017.
  10. ^ a b c Wood, Mike. "Brief biography of Tina Howe". The William Inge Center for the Arts. Retrieved November 4, 2011.
  11. ^ a b c "Theater. Review and Interview. 'The Bald Soprano'" The Villager, September 22–28, 2004
  12. ^ a b Richards, David; Richards, David (March 27, 1996). "AT THE HEIGHTS OF ABSURDITY". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved March 12, 2017.
  13. ^ Cohen, Patricia (April 8, 2009). "Friend-and-Family Network of Inspirations for Tina Howe's 'Chasing Manet'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 12, 2017.
  14. ^ Jackson R. Bryer, Mary C. Hartig (ed.), Tina Howe, Encyclopedia of American Drama, Infobase Learning, 2015, ISBN 1438140762 (no page number)
  15. ^ a b Worland, Gayle. "Gift From The Heart Acclaimed Playwright Returns To Work With Madison Rep On 'Rembrandt's Gift'" madison.com, September 10, 2005
  16. ^ "Howe, Tina – Dictionary definition of Howe, Tina | Encyclopedia.com: FREE online dictionary". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved March 12, 2017.
  17. ^ Bigsby, C. W. E., "Tina Howe", Contemporary American Playwrights, Cambridge University Press, 1999, ISBN 0521668077, pp. 47, 50, 57
  18. ^ Rich, Frank. "Theater: Bostonian Life In 'Painting Churches' ", The New York Times, February 9, 1983, p.C16
  19. ^ Stasio, Marilyn. "Review. 'Painting Churches' " Variety, March 6, 2012
  20. ^ a b Sommer, Elyse. "A CurtainUp Berkshires Review. Coastal Disturbances" curtainup.com, July 14, 2006
  21. ^ Regan, Celia McGerr. "Throwing Kisses, Throwing Pies" sarahlawrence.edu, accessed August 26, 2015
  22. ^ Brantley, Ben. "The Art of Bringing Up Baby, With All Its Thrill and Terror" The New York Times, October 4, 2006
  23. ^ a b Brenson, Michael. "Art Given A Role In Tina Howe's Play" The New York Times, February 18, 1983
  24. ^ Hafner, Katie, A Romance on Three Legs: Glenn Gould's Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Piano, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2010, ISBN 1608190455, pp. 222–223
  25. ^ Vogel, Paula (January 1, 2009). The American theatre reader: essays and conversations from American theatre magazine. New York: Theatre Communications Group. ISBN 9781559363464. OCLC 789409728.
  26. ^ Lefkowitz, David. Tina Howe Taking Pride and Visiting 'Museum'" playbill.com, October 14, 1997
  27. ^ Barnes, Clive (April 10, 1970). "Theater". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 12, 2017.
  28. ^ Howe, Tina (January 1, 1979). Museum: A Play. Samuel French, Inc. ISBN 9780573612893.
  29. ^ a b c d Howe, Tina. "Script", Museum: A Play, Samuel French, Inc., 1979, ISBN 0573612897, pp. 3–7
  30. ^ "'Museum' Listing, 1978" lortel.org, accessed September 7, 2015
  31. ^ Sommers, Elyse. "CurtainUp Review. 'Coastal Disturbances', 2006" curtainup.com, July 14, 2006
  32. ^ Feingold, Michael (June 11, 2002). "Rampant Exhibitionism". Village Voice. Retrieved March 12, 2017.
  33. ^ a b The Art of Dining November 15, 2011, at the Wayback Machine lortel.org, accessed August 26, 2015
  34. ^ OBIE Awards Presented" The New York Times, May 24, 1983
  35. ^ Lardner, James; Lardner, James (December 21, 1979). "Curtain Up! Light the Stove! Eat!". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved March 12, 2017.
  36. ^ Rich, Frank (February 9, 1983). "THEATER: BOSTONIAN LIFE IN 'PAINTING CHURCHES'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 12, 2017.
  37. ^ "Painting Churches – Lortel Archives". www.lortel.org. Retrieved March 12, 2017.
  38. ^ "AWARDS FOR 1983–1984". outercritics.org. Retrieved March 12, 2017.
  39. ^ "Finalist: Painting Churches, by Tina Howe". www.pulitzer.org. Retrieved March 12, 2017.
  40. ^ "Painting Churches". www.tcm.com. Retrieved August 30, 2023.
  41. ^ "In a revival of Tina Howe's 'Painting Churches,' Kathleen Chalfant nails her Boston blueblood matron". POLITICO. March 7, 2012. Retrieved August 30, 2023.
  42. ^ Gans, Andrew (January 17, 2012). "John Cunningham Replaces Richard Easton in Keen Company's Painting Churches". Playbill. Retrieved August 30, 2023.
  43. ^ a b "'Coastal Disturbances' Off-Broadway Listing" October 21, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  44. ^ Christiansen, Richard (October 1, 1988). "'COASTAL DISTURBANCES' SLIDES ON FOUNDATION OF QUICKSAND". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved August 30, 2023.
  45. ^ "The Tony Award Nominations". www.tonyawards.com. Retrieved August 30, 2023.
  46. ^ Rich, Frank (November 20, 1986). "STAGE: FROM TINA HOWE, 'COASTAL DISTURBANCES'". The New York Times. Retrieved August 30, 2023.
  47. ^ a b Howe, Tina. "Script" Approaching Zanzibar, Samuel French, Inc., 1989, ISBN 0573691282, p. 5
  48. ^ a b Taylor, Paul. "Review: Theatre 'Approaching Zanzibar' Southwark Playhouse, London" The Independent, August 8, 1997
  49. ^ a b c Gerard, Jeremy. "Legit/Reviews/Review: 'One Shoe Off'", Variety, April 16, 1993
  50. ^ a b c Pride's Crossing lortel.org, accessed August 26, 2015
  51. ^ a b c Jones, Kenneth. "Tina Howe's 'Pride's Crossing' Gets NYC Revival at T. Schreiber Studio, March 25 – April 18" playbill.com, March 25, 2004
  52. ^ a b c d Whaley, Charles. "A CurtainUp Feature The Humana Festival: 2002" curtainup.com, accessed August 26, 2015
  53. ^ Jones, Kenneth. "Tina Howe's Gift and Andre De Shields in 'Our Town' Punctuate Madison Rep's Season" Playbill, June 10, 2005
  54. ^ "'Rembrandt's Gift', 2002" actorstheatre.org, accessed September 9, 2015
  55. ^ Gans, Andrew. "Atlantic Theater Company Postpones Howe's Ionesco Double-Bill" playbill.com, February 25, 2004
  56. ^ "'The Bald Soprano' and 'The Lesson' Listing" lortel.org, accessed September 8, 2015
  57. ^ Jones, Kenneth. "Tina Howe's 'Birth and After Birth' Gets NYC Premiere by Atlantic Theater Company" playbill.com, September 13, 2006
  58. ^ White, Helena M. "Birth and After Birth (review)", Theatre Journal 48.2 (1996) 223–225 (abstract), September 17, 1995.
  59. ^ Tallmer, Jerry. "After 34 years, 'Birth and After Birth' is born" downtownexpress.com, Volume 19, Issue 20, September 29 – October 5, 2006
  60. ^ a b Hernandez, Ernio. "Jane Alexander and Lynn Cohen Begin Chasing Manet Off-Broadway March 24" playbill.com, March 24, 2009
  61. ^ Hetrick, Adam. "Amy Irving Joins Cast of Signature Theatre Premiere of Martha Clarke's 'Chéri'" Playbill, 15, October 2013
  62. ^ a b Gans, Andrew. "Tina Howe's Singing Beach Makes World Premiere" Playbill, July 22, 2017
  63. ^ Greenfield, Phil. "'Painting Churches' Warm, Honest Portrait Of A Family" The Baltimore Sun, February 1, 1991
  64. ^ "'One Shoe Off' 1993" lortel.org, accessed September 6, 2015
  65. ^ a b "Tina Howe". Plays for New Audiences. Retrieved August 30, 2023.
  66. ^ Pandolfo, Nicole. "Tina Howe: Playwright, Mentor, Online Dating Advisor" americantheatre.org, May 22, 2015
  67. ^ "Tina Howe/The New Hunter College MFA In Playwriting Program/Deadline: March 1" stagevoices.com, accessed September 6, 2015
  68. ^ "Theatre Faculty and Staff" hunter.cuny.edu, accessed September 6, 2015
  69. ^ Cox, Gordon. "Playwright Annie Baker On Life After The Pulitzer" Variety, May 14, 2015
  70. ^ a b c "4th Annual Burian Lecture, February 8, 2000" albany.edu, accessed September 6, 2015
  71. ^ "Tina Howe Biography", American Theatre Wing, accessed June 20, 2012 August 7, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  72. ^ Tina Howe, Theatre Communications Group, accessed November 21, 2011
  73. ^ "Collection: Tina Howe papers | HOLLIS for". hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu. Retrieved August 30, 2023.
  74. ^ a b c d Evans, Greg (August 29, 2023). "Tina Howe dead at 85". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved August 29, 2023.
  75. ^ Brantley, Ben (October 4, 2006). "The Art of Bringing Up Baby, With All Its Thrill and Terror". The New York Times. Retrieved August 30, 2023.
  76. ^ "Birth and After Birth". www.abouttheartists.com. Retrieved August 30, 2023.
  77. ^ "East of the Sun and West of the Moon, Children's Theatre Company, Minneapolis, 1994–95 season" playsforyoungaudiences.org, accessed August 26, 2015
  78. ^ a b Hall, Margaret (August 29, 2023). "Celebrated Playwright Tina Howe Dies at 85". Playbill. Retrieved August 30, 2023.
  79. ^ Chéri signaturetheatre.org, accessed September 7, 2015
  80. ^ Webster, Andy (August 7, 2013). "Small Bites, Seasonable and Subtle". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 10, 2023.
  81. ^ "Where Women Go". Concord Theatricals. Retrieved November 21, 2023.
  82. ^ Lefkowitz, David. "L.A.'s Whittier Honors Tina Howe With Doctorate and Show May 21–23" Playbill, May 4, 1997
  83. ^ "Honorary Degrees Whittier" whittier.edu, accessed September 6, 2015
  84. ^ a b Patton, Paige (October 9, 2007). "Baylor's Horton Foote Festival to Honor Award-Winning Playwright Tina Howe". Baylor University. Retrieved November 4, 2011.
  85. ^ "Bowdoin College, Commencement, 1988" library.bowdoin.edu, accessed September 6, 2015
  86. ^ "Past Festivals by Year and Honoree" ingecenter.org, accessed August 26, 2015
  87. ^ Gans, Andrew. "Estelle Parsons and Tina Howe Receive Lifetime Achievement Awards at 3rd Annual Lilly Awards June 4" Playbill, June 4, 2012
  88. ^ Rawson, Christopher. "On the scene for the Theater Hall of Fame: Audra McDonald, Matthew Broderick and more" Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, November 21, 2017
  89. ^ "Howe, Tina 1937– | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved August 30, 2023.
  90. ^ "Tina Howe Field of Study: Drama and Performance Art 1990" gf.org, accessed September 8, 2015
  91. ^ "Awards" September 11, 2010, at the Wayback Machine artsandletters.org, accessed September 8, 2015
  92. ^ Barnes, Mike (August 29, 2023). "Tina Howe, Tony-Nominated 'Coastal Disturbances' Playwright, Dies at 85". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved August 30, 2023.
  93. ^ "Membership Profile Tina Howe" dramatistsguild.com, accessed September 8, 2015
  94. ^ Carolyn Kellogg (May 13, 2015). "PEN announces award-winners and shortlists". LA Times. Retrieved May 14, 2015.
  95. ^ "2015 PEN Literary Award Winners". pen.org. May 11, 2015. Retrieved May 14, 2015.

External links edit

  • Tina Howe papers, circa 1958–2015. Houghton Library, Harvard University.
  • Tina Howe at the Internet Broadway Database
  • Internet Off-Broadway Database listing (Lortel Archives) for Tina Howe
  • Complete list of Plays by Tina Howe
  • filmreference.com, Tina Howe Biography (1937–2023)
  • Tina Howe at IMDb
  • Pulitzer Org. listing for Tina Howe, 1997 and 1984 showing finalist

April 08, 2024
tina, howe, mabel, davis, tina, howe, november, 1937, august, 2023, american, playwright, career, that, spanned, more, than, four, decades, howe, best, known, works, include, museum, dining, painting, churches, coastal, disturbances, pride, crossing, howe, 201. Mabel Davis Tina Howe November 21 1937 August 28 2023 was an American playwright In a career that spanned more than four decades Howe s best known works include Museum The Art of Dining Painting Churches Coastal Disturbances and Pride s Crossing Tina HoweHowe in 2015BornMabel Davis Howe 1937 11 21 November 21 1937New York City U S DiedAugust 28 2023 2023 08 28 aged 85 New York City U S OccupationPlaywrightEducationSarah Lawrence College BA Sorbonne UniversityColumbia UniversityChicago State UniversityPeriod1959 2017SpouseNorman Levy m 1961 died 2022 wbr Children2ParentQuincy Howe father RelativesMark Antony De Wolfe Howe grandfather Her plays won numerous awards including the 1998 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play for Pride s Crossing 1 2 which was also a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Drama 3 Coastal Disturbances was nominated for the 1987 Tony Award for Best Play 2 4 Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2 1 Themes and style 2 2 Full length plays 3 Other 4 Personal life 5 Plays 6 Awards and honors 6 1 List of awards 7 References 8 External linksEarly life editMabel Davis Howe was born in Manhattan on November 21 1937 5 Howe came from a literary family Her grandfather Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe published over 50 books and won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1925 6 Her father Quincy Howe wrote and broadcast the evening news on CBS Radio from 1942 to 1947 and then on ABC television He was the author of the three volume history A World History of Our Own Times 7 Her uncle Mark DeWolfe Howe taught constitutional law at Harvard Law School and was Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr s law clerk and biographer 8 Her aunt Helen Howe was a successful monologist and novelist 9 Howe was called Tina since her childhood so when she was eighteen she changed her name from Mabel Howe to Tina Howe 5 Howe s family placed an emphasis on its members reading and writing Thanksgivings and family occasions were always about What are you reading what are you writing what are you working on what poetry are you interested in 10 When Howe was ill with hepatitis her father visited her every day in the hospital reading James Joyce s Ulysses to her during his lunch break 10 11 Howe graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville New York in 1959 As an undergraduate she wrote her first play Closing Time her classmate Jane Alexander later directed and acted in it 12 After graduation she and Alexander traveled to Europe Alexander to act and study mathematics at the University of Edinburgh and Howe to study philosophy at Sorbonne University and write When Howe saw Eugene Ionesco s La Cantatrice Chauve at the Theatre de la Huchette It changed my life she said It was like a bolt of lightning going through my head 13 Following her return from Europe Howe did graduate work at Columbia University Teacher s College and Chicago Teachers College 14 She started teaching high school in Monona Grove Wisconsin while her husband teacher and writer Norman Levy was doing graduate work 15 and then in Bath Maine which is where she said she learned her craft through running the school s drama department a position she agreed to take if they would produce her plays 16 Career editThemes and style edit Literary critic and novelist C W E Bigsby wrote that art is plainly a central point of reference for Howe noting those themes in Painting Churches and Coastal Disturbances and added that food and consumption are also important themes in her work In his book Contemporary American Playwrights Bigsby wrote that she had a commitment to experimentation and quotes Howe as saying said that she is firmly entrenched in the Absurdist tradition 17 Frank Rich in his New York Times review of Painting Churches commented that the play is in the dreamiest impressionistic spirit 18 The Variety reviewer of Painting Churches also noted that the play is a group portrait painted in a soft impressionistic style 19 The CurtainUp reviewer of Coastal Disturbances wrote of Howe s work Like all of Howe s work the play s charm stems from its quirky characters In this case joie de vie despair love lust anger and fear come and go like the waves hitting the shore in foamy bursts or gentle ripples 20 Writing in the Sarah Lawrence Magazine Celia McGerr Regan described Howe s authorial voice Howe developed a voice that has been variously described as farcical and absurd impressionistic and airy graceful and perceptive lyric and literate vivid and language driven whimsical and demented Odd things happen in the face of the recognizable Trees grow up inside and through a New York State farmhouse One Shoe Off 21 Ben Brantley in reviewing Birth and After Birth for The New York Times observed The suggestion is of a natural world that thwarts and ultimately devours the ambitions and pretensions of the civilized This is a theme that Ms Howe would develop in later works sometimes artfully Coastal Disturbances sometimes clumsily One Shoe Off but always in a style that was distinctively her own 22 Howe noted about her time in Paris The most profound thing that happened to me that year was seeing The Bald Soprano by Ionesco That exploded me all over the place Ionesco Beckett and Pirandello continued to be her heroes 23 Howe was a great admirer of Glenn Gould saying I write my plays to Glenn Gould I cook the kids spaghetti dinners to Glenn Gould I pay the bills to Glenn Gould 24 Full length plays edit Howe s first full length play to receive a professional production was The Nest which premiered in summer 1969 at the Act IV Theater in Provincetown Massachusetts It was directed by Larry Arrick and the cast included Sally Kirkland and Richard Jordan among others From Provincetown the show was transferred Off Broadway to New York s Mercury Theater opening on April 9 1970 25 Howe later recalled My first play The Nest was about courtship and how women compete with each other to land a husband That play closed off Broadway in one night 26 The play follows the trials of three young women competing for husbands at a dinner party and during the course of the play one of the women takes off her clothes and dives into a huge wedding cake and is licked clean by one of the male guests The Nest Clive Barnes of The New York Times wrote in his review must be on any reasonable short list of the worst plays I have ever seen 27 Her play Museum with a cast of 55 characters premiered at the Los Angeles Actors Theatre on April 29 1976 28 and was then presented Off Broadway by Joseph Papp at the Public Theater opening in February 1978 in a production directed by Max Stafford Clark A cast of 18 actors played a total of 44 characters The play takes place at a group art show of three contemporary artists titled The Broken Silence The Public Theater production featured Dianne Wiest Kathryn Grody and Larry Bryggman 29 30 A CurtainUp reviewer noted that Howe explained in her author s note for the play s premiere at the Shakespeare Festival her large cast of characters was created to provide directors and producers with endless staging possibilities 31 In her note in the script published by Samuel French Howe wrote It is my hope that any group wanting to present Museum use the large cast size as a challenge and not as a restriction The play was written to serve the versatility of actors 29 The play was revived Off Broadway by the Keen Company in 2002 directed by Carl Forsman In his Village Voice review Michael Feingold wrote This is the most enchantingly tesserated play ever written If Mozart had been a TV producer this is what a Candid Camera segment on art might have looked like 32 The Art of Dining is set in an exclusive restaurant and home moving from the kitchen of the chef owner to the dining room where her husband is the maitre d to the individual tables of the characters observing their action and interplay while waiting for and eating their meals The play was first presented Off Broadway by Joseph Papp at the Public Theater in December 1979 in a production directed by A J Antoon with a cast featuring Kathy Bates Ron Rifkin and Dianne Wiest who went on to win the 1980 Clarence Derwent Award and Obie Award 33 Howe herself won an Obie Award in 1983 for distinguished playwriting for her plays The Art of Dining Museum and Painting Churches 34 From New York The Art of Dining moved to a run at the Kennedy Center 35 Howe s next play Painting Churches premiered on February 8 1983 at Second Stage Theater under the direction of Carole Rothman 36 The cast included Marian Seldes Frances Conroy and Donald Moffat It transferred to the off Broadway Lambs Theater where it ran from November 22 1983 through May 20 1984 playing 206 performances 37 In this production Marian Seldes was joined by Elizabeth McGovern and George Martin Painting Churches won several Outer Critics Circle Awards including Best Off Broadway Play Best Actress Marian Seldes and the John Gassner Playwriting Award 38 The play was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama 39 In 1986 Painting Churches was filmed for PBS s American Playhouse directed by Jack O Brien That cast included Sada Thompson Donald Moffat and Roxanne Hart 40 It was revived off Broadway by the Keen Company in March 2012 directed by Carl Forsman starring Kathleen Chalfant John Cunningham and Kate Turnbull 41 42 In November 1986 Howe s next play Coastal Disturbances premiered at Second Stage under the direction of Carole Rothman 43 The play was set on a private New England beach 44 Annette Bening and Tim Daly led the cast The play was transferred to the Circle in the Square Theater on Broadway in March 1987 43 It was nominated for a Tony award for Best Play along with Carole Rothman for Best Direction and Annette Bening for Best Actress 45 5 Frank Rich of The New York Times hailed it as Hilarious erotic and intoxicating 46 This was followed by Approaching Zanzibar which shows the Blossom family traveling across the United States to visit Olivia a sick relative The play premiered at the Second Stage Theatre on April 8 1989 directed by Carole Rothman and starred Jane Alexander as Charlotte Blossom Harris Yulin as her husband Angela Goethals as her daughter and Bethel Leslie as her dying aunt 47 The play was produced at the Southwark Playhouse London in August 1997 The reviewer for The Independent wrote a zany expertly mimed sequence throws the tensions of cooped up family car travel into rollicking relief when in fantasy the parents and children swap roles But like so much off Broadway fare the play insists on coating the pill of pain in the sickly sugar of false reassurance 48 One Shoe Off opened Off Broadway in April 1993 in a Second Stage Theatre production at the Public Theater The Variety reviewer described the play as the dining room play that dissolves in an emotive crossfire of accusation revelation and reconciliation offbeat sometimes ferociously funny with an over the top tone 49 Her play Pride s Crossing described by Playbill as a family inspired memory play was produced Off Broadway at Lincoln Center from December 7 1997 to April 5 1998 50 after an engagement at the Old Globe Theatre San Diego in 1997 The play was revived Off Broadway in 2004 50 51 She received the New York Drama Critic s Circle Award for Best Play in 1998 for this play 50 51 Rembrandt s Gift premiered at the Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville in 2002 52 directed by John Rando and starring Penny Fuller and a revised version was produced by the Madison Repertory Theatre Wisconsin in September 2005 53 The three person play focuses on an unlikely poignant and very funny visit by the great 17th century Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn 15 54 Howe wrote English translations of Eugene Ionesco s The Bald Soprano and The Lesson which were produced at the Atlantic Theater Company in September 2004 55 The plays were directed by Carl Forsman and featured Jan Maxwell John Ellison Conlee Michael Countryman and Robert Stanton 56 The Atlantic Theater Company presented Birth and After Birth Off Broadway at the Linda Gross Theater opening in September 2006 in previews Described by Playbill as a play about parenting the play was written in 1972 it was directed by Atlantic associate artistic director Christian Parker 57 The play was first presented at the Wilma Theatre Philadelphia Pennsylvania in September 1995 after being rewritten and having readings and a workshop at the California State University Summer Arts Festival The reviewer of this production wrote The play bears the mark of a youthful playwright Howe s brilliant mind is teeming with enough ideas to fill several plays and her themes and style at times suggest an early fascination with older playwrights such as Ionesco and Albee 58 Birth and After Birth is a comedy in which a self centered tantrum throwing monster of a 4 year old is played by a fully grown adult male 59 Chasing Manet opened Off Broadway at Primary Stages in April 2009 starring Jane Alexander and Lynn Cohen The play takes place in a nursing home with the rebellious painter and a Jewish woman becoming friends and planning on escaping to go to Paris aboard the QE2 60 Jane Alexander was a friend of Howe s from Sarah Lawrence College 11 Howe provided the text for the interdisciplinary work Cheri conceived directed and choreographed by Martha Clarke which opened Off Broadway in a Signature Theatre Company production at the Pershing Square Signature Center Irene Diamond Stage on November 19 2013 in previews 61 Her full length play Singing Beach premiered Off Broadway at HERE Arts Center on July 22 2017 in previews in a limited engagement produced by Theatre 167 Directed by Ari Laura Kreith the cast featured Erin Beirnard Devin Haqq Jackson Demott Hill John P Keller Tuck Milligan Elodie Morss and Naren Weiss The play involves the effects that a Category 4 hurricane has on the Sleeper family and is concerned with climate change 62 Howe s plays have been produced in regional theatres in the United States such as Louisville 52 Los Angeles 29 Stockbridge Massachusetts 20 Annapolis Maryland 63 and San Diego 51 as well as in London 48 Her plays have premiered in venues such as the Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville Rembrandt s Gift 2002 52 the Public Theater The Art of Dining 1979 33 and the Second Stage Theatre One Shoe Off 1983 49 64 Other editHowe had taught master classes at New York University UCLA Columbia University and Carnegie Mellon 65 Howe was a Visiting Professor of playwriting and Playwright in Residence at Hunter College in New York City retiring in 2015 She was the head of the two year MFA playwriting program which began in 2010 11 66 67 68 Annie Baker has taken the position formerly held by Howe 69 Howe was a member of the council of the Dramatists Guild of America from 1990 70 71 Several of her works can be read in the volumes Coastal Disturbances Four Plays by Tina Howe and Approaching Zanzibar and Other Plays 72 Her papers are held by the Harvard Theatre Collection at Houghton Library 73 Personal life editHowe was married to historian Norman Levy from 1961 until his death in 2022 5 He taught American History at the University at Albany from 1967 to 1973 70 The couple had two children and lived in the Bronx after years on the Upper West Side of Manhattan 5 23 10 Howe died in Manhattan on August 28 2023 at age 85 from complications of a hip fracture sustained in a fall 5 74 Plays editClosing Time 1959 12 The Nest 1970 5 Birth and After Birth 1972 1977 75 76 Museum 1976 29 The Art of Dining 1979 5 Painting Churches 1983 5 Coastal Disturbances 1986 5 Approaching Zanzibar 1989 47 One Shoe Off 1993 49 East of the Sun and West of the Moon 1994 95 77 Pride s Crossing 1997 74 Rembrandt s Gift 2002 52 The Bald Soprano English translation of Eugene Ionesco 2004 78 The Lesson English translation of Eugene Ionesco 2004 78 Chasing Manet 2009 60 Cheri 2013 79 Breaking the Spell 2013 80 Singing Beach 2017 62 Where Women Go 81 2023 Awards and honors editHowe received a Rockefeller Grant 1983 two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships a Guggenheim fellowship 1990 and an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature 1993 74 Howe was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters L H D degree from Whittier College in 1997 82 83 and Honoris causa Doctor of Letters from Bowdoin College 1998 84 85 70 Howe received the William Inge Theatre Festival Award in 2005 86 In 2007 she received the Horton Foote Award presented at the Baylor University Horton Foote American Playwrights Festival 84 In 2012 she received the 3rd Annual Lilly Award Lifetime Achievement Award The Lilly Awards were created to recognize the extraordinary contributions made by women to the American Theater 87 Howe was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame for 2017 At the ceremony in November 2017 at the Gershwin Theatre she was introduced by her long time friend Jane Alexander who said She has passion wit and absurdity her plays are an operatic dive into the depths She writes as no one else does about women 88 List of awards edit 1983 Obie Award for Distinguished Playwriting winner 5 1983 Rockefeller Grant for Distinguished Playwriting winner 89 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Painting Churches finalist 5 1987 Tony Award Best Play Coastal Disturbances nominee 5 1990 Guggenheim Fellowship winner 90 1993 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature winner 91 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Pride s Crossing finalist 5 1998 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play Pride s Crossing winner 92 1998 Dramatists Guild Fund Madge Evans amp Sidney S Kingsley Award winner 93 2005 William Inge Award for Distinguished Achievement in the American Theater winner 74 65 2015 PEN Laura Pels Theater Award Master American Dramatist 94 95 References edit Pride s Crossing Listing 1997 lortel org accessed September 6 2015 a b Painting Churches with One Shoe Off Wheaton College Archived from the original on November 6 2009 Retrieved November 4 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Pulitzer org accessed September 5 2015 Tina Howe Broadway Awards Internet Broadway Database accessed August 26 2015 a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Genzlinger Neil August 30 2023 Tina Howe Playwright Who Mixed Heartache And Humor Dies at 85 The New York Times p B11 Retrieved August 30 2023 Barrett Wendell and His Letters by M A Dewolfe Howe Little www pulitzer org Retrieved March 12 2017 Howe Quincy January 1 1949 A world history of our own times 1 1 New York Simon amp Schuster OCLC 314506365 Mark De Wolfe Howe Dies Lawyer Historian Was 60 News The Harvard Crimson www thecrimson com Retrieved March 12 2017 Helen Howe Satiric Monologist Who Became Writer Dies at 70 The New York Times February 2 1975 ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved March 12 2017 a b c Wood Mike Brief biography of Tina Howe The William Inge Center for the Arts Retrieved November 4 2011 a b c Theater Review and Interview The Bald Soprano The Villager September 22 28 2004 a b Richards David Richards David March 27 1996 AT THE HEIGHTS OF ABSURDITY The Washington Post ISSN 0190 8286 Retrieved March 12 2017 Cohen Patricia April 8 2009 Friend and Family Network of Inspirations for Tina Howe s Chasing Manet The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved March 12 2017 Jackson R Bryer Mary C Hartig ed Tina Howe Encyclopedia of American Drama Infobase Learning 2015 ISBN 1438140762 no page number a b Worland Gayle Gift From The Heart Acclaimed Playwright Returns To Work With Madison Rep On Rembrandt s Gift madison com September 10 2005 Howe Tina Dictionary definition of Howe Tina Encyclopedia com FREE online dictionary www encyclopedia com Retrieved March 12 2017 Bigsby C W E Tina Howe Contemporary American Playwrights Cambridge University Press 1999 ISBN 0521668077 pp 47 50 57 Rich Frank Theater Bostonian Life In Painting Churches The New York Times February 9 1983 p C16 Stasio Marilyn Review Painting Churches Variety March 6 2012 a b Sommer Elyse A CurtainUp Berkshires Review Coastal Disturbances curtainup com July 14 2006 Regan Celia McGerr Throwing Kisses Throwing Pies sarahlawrence edu accessed August 26 2015 Brantley Ben The Art of Bringing Up Baby With All Its Thrill and Terror The New York Times October 4 2006 a b Brenson Michael Art Given A Role In Tina Howe s Play The New York Times February 18 1983 Hafner Katie A Romance on Three Legs Glenn Gould s Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Piano Bloomsbury Publishing USA 2010 ISBN 1608190455 pp 222 223 Vogel Paula January 1 2009 The American theatre reader essays and conversations from American theatre magazine New York Theatre Communications Group ISBN 9781559363464 OCLC 789409728 Lefkowitz David Tina Howe Taking Pride and Visiting Museum playbill com October 14 1997 Barnes Clive April 10 1970 Theater The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved March 12 2017 Howe Tina January 1 1979 Museum A Play Samuel French Inc ISBN 9780573612893 a b c d Howe Tina Script Museum A Play Samuel French Inc 1979 ISBN 0573612897 pp 3 7 Museum Listing 1978 lortel org accessed September 7 2015 Sommers Elyse CurtainUp Review Coastal Disturbances 2006 curtainup com July 14 2006 Feingold Michael June 11 2002 Rampant Exhibitionism Village Voice Retrieved March 12 2017 a b The Art of Dining Archived November 15 2011 at the Wayback Machine lortel org accessed August 26 2015 OBIE Awards Presented The New York Times May 24 1983 Lardner James Lardner James December 21 1979 Curtain Up Light the Stove Eat The Washington Post ISSN 0190 8286 Retrieved March 12 2017 Rich Frank February 9 1983 THEATER BOSTONIAN LIFE IN PAINTING CHURCHES The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved March 12 2017 Painting Churches Lortel Archives www lortel org Retrieved March 12 2017 AWARDS FOR 1983 1984 outercritics org Retrieved March 12 2017 Finalist Painting Churches by Tina Howe www pulitzer org Retrieved March 12 2017 Painting Churches www tcm com Retrieved August 30 2023 In a revival of Tina Howe s Painting Churches Kathleen Chalfant nails her Boston blueblood matron POLITICO March 7 2012 Retrieved August 30 2023 Gans Andrew January 17 2012 John Cunningham Replaces Richard Easton in Keen Company s Painting Churches Playbill Retrieved August 30 2023 a b Coastal Disturbances Off Broadway Listing Archived October 21 2012 at the Wayback Machine Christiansen Richard October 1 1988 COASTAL DISTURBANCES SLIDES ON FOUNDATION OF QUICKSAND Chicago Tribune Retrieved August 30 2023 The Tony Award Nominations www tonyawards com Retrieved August 30 2023 Rich Frank November 20 1986 STAGE FROM TINA HOWE COASTAL DISTURBANCES The New York Times Retrieved August 30 2023 a b Howe Tina Script Approaching Zanzibar Samuel French Inc 1989 ISBN 0573691282 p 5 a b Taylor Paul Review Theatre Approaching Zanzibar Southwark Playhouse London The Independent August 8 1997 a b c Gerard Jeremy Legit Reviews Review One Shoe Off Variety April 16 1993 a b c Pride s Crossing lortel org accessed August 26 2015 a b c Jones Kenneth Tina Howe s Pride s Crossing Gets NYC Revival at T Schreiber Studio March 25 April 18 playbill com March 25 2004 a b c d Whaley Charles A CurtainUp Feature The Humana Festival 2002 curtainup com accessed August 26 2015 Jones Kenneth Tina Howe s Gift and Andre De Shields in Our Town Punctuate Madison Rep s Season Playbill June 10 2005 Rembrandt s Gift 2002 actorstheatre org accessed September 9 2015 Gans Andrew Atlantic Theater Company Postpones Howe s Ionesco Double Bill playbill com February 25 2004 The Bald Soprano and The Lesson Listing lortel org accessed September 8 2015 Jones Kenneth Tina Howe s Birth and After Birth Gets NYC Premiere by Atlantic Theater Company playbill com September 13 2006 White Helena M Birth and After Birth review Theatre Journal 48 2 1996 223 225 abstract September 17 1995 Tallmer Jerry After 34 years Birth and After Birth is born downtownexpress com Volume 19 Issue 20 September 29 October 5 2006 a b Hernandez Ernio Jane Alexander and Lynn Cohen Begin Chasing Manet Off Broadway March 24 playbill com March 24 2009 Hetrick Adam Amy Irving Joins Cast of Signature Theatre Premiere of Martha Clarke s Cheri Playbill 15 October 2013 a b Gans Andrew Tina Howe s Singing Beach Makes World Premiere Playbill July 22 2017 Greenfield Phil Painting Churches Warm Honest Portrait Of A Family The Baltimore Sun February 1 1991 One Shoe Off 1993 lortel org accessed September 6 2015 a b Tina Howe Plays for New Audiences Retrieved August 30 2023 Pandolfo Nicole Tina Howe Playwright Mentor Online Dating Advisor americantheatre org May 22 2015 Tina Howe The New Hunter College MFA In Playwriting Program Deadline March 1 stagevoices com accessed September 6 2015 Theatre Faculty and Staff hunter cuny edu accessed September 6 2015 Cox Gordon Playwright Annie Baker On Life After The Pulitzer Variety May 14 2015 a b c 4th Annual Burian Lecture February 8 2000 albany edu accessed September 6 2015 Tina Howe Biography American Theatre Wing accessed June 20 2012 Archived August 7 2009 at the Wayback Machine Tina Howe Theatre Communications Group accessed November 21 2011 Collection Tina Howe papers HOLLIS for hollisarchives lib harvard edu Retrieved August 30 2023 a b c d Evans Greg August 29 2023 Tina Howe dead at 85 Deadline Hollywood Retrieved August 29 2023 Brantley Ben October 4 2006 The Art of Bringing Up Baby With All Its Thrill and Terror The New York Times Retrieved August 30 2023 Birth and After Birth www abouttheartists com Retrieved August 30 2023 East of the Sun and West of the Moon Children s Theatre Company Minneapolis 1994 95 season playsforyoungaudiences org accessed August 26 2015 a b Hall Margaret August 29 2023 Celebrated Playwright Tina Howe Dies at 85 Playbill Retrieved August 30 2023 Cheri signaturetheatre org accessed September 7 2015 Webster Andy August 7 2013 Small Bites Seasonable and Subtle The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved October 10 2023 Where Women Go Concord Theatricals Retrieved November 21 2023 Lefkowitz David L A s Whittier Honors Tina Howe With Doctorate and Show May 21 23 Playbill May 4 1997 Honorary Degrees Whittier whittier edu accessed September 6 2015 a b Patton Paige October 9 2007 Baylor s Horton Foote Festival to Honor Award Winning Playwright Tina Howe Baylor University Retrieved November 4 2011 Bowdoin College Commencement 1988 library bowdoin edu accessed September 6 2015 Past Festivals by Year and Honoree ingecenter org accessed August 26 2015 Gans Andrew Estelle Parsons and Tina Howe Receive Lifetime Achievement Awards at 3rd Annual Lilly Awards June 4 Playbill June 4 2012 Rawson Christopher On the scene for the Theater Hall of Fame Audra McDonald Matthew Broderick and more Pittsburgh Post Gazette November 21 2017 Howe Tina 1937 Encyclopedia com www encyclopedia com Retrieved August 30 2023 Tina Howe Field of Study Drama and Performance Art 1990 gf org accessed September 8 2015 Awards Archived September 11 2010 at the Wayback Machine artsandletters org accessed September 8 2015 Barnes Mike August 29 2023 Tina Howe Tony Nominated Coastal Disturbances Playwright Dies at 85 The Hollywood Reporter Retrieved August 30 2023 Membership Profile Tina Howe dramatistsguild com accessed September 8 2015 Carolyn Kellogg May 13 2015 PEN announces award winners and shortlists LA Times Retrieved May 14 2015 2015 PEN Literary Award Winners pen org May 11 2015 Retrieved May 14 2015 External links editTina Howe papers circa 1958 2015 Houghton Library Harvard University Tina Howe at the Internet Broadway Database Internet Off Broadway Database listing Lortel Archives for Tina Howe Complete list of Plays by Tina Howe filmreference com Tina Howe Biography 1937 2023 Tina Howe at IMDb Pulitzer Org listing for Tina Howe 1997 and 1984 showing finalist Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Tina Howe amp oldid 1217288404, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

article

, read, download, free, free download, mp3, video, mp4, 3gp, jpg, jpeg, gif, png, picture, music, song, movie, book, game, games.