A hip bash held Saturday night at the storied Humana Festival of New American Plays in Louisville, Kentucky celebrated the newly announced winner of the 2016 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/ATCA Award: Qui Nguyen.
Source Festival play among six Steinberg Award finalists
For the second year in a row, a play which debuted at DC’s Source Festival is in line for a playwriting award. Last year, Topher Payne’s Perfect Arrangement received the American Theatre Critics Association’s $1,000 M. Elizabeth Osborne Award for top play by an emerging writer.
Criticism in the crosshairs at Humana New Play Festival
Louisville was the home of Hunter S. Thompson, the Lord of gonzo journalism until he blew himself up in 2005. For Thompson, every story about the world was really a story about himself. Thompson wrote about the Hell’s Angels, the Kentucky Derby, Las Vegas and the 1972 Presidential campaign, but what could compete with his […]