Huntington’s ‘Civil War Christmas’ blends real-life drama with seasonal sentiments Nov 20, 2009
In an interview in October 1998, the year she won the Pulitzer Prize for drama for her remarkable memory play How I Learned to Drive, the playwright Paula Vogel said, somewhat surprisingly: I want to start to write for musical theater ... Play by: Paula Vogel. (Boston Globe)
Huntington Theatre presents ‘A Civil War Christmas: An American Musical Celebration’ Nov 13, 2009
Paula Vogel s play takes place on Christmas Eve 1864, when President and Mrs. Lincoln are discussing gift-giving inside the White House, a young Confederate soldier is on the Potomac River challenging a Union blacksmith, and a fugitive slave is looking for her daughter. Vogel s story of transformation features local college students and choirs that carol before the show. (Boston Globe)
Community choruses lend voices to ‘A Civil War Christmas’ and ‘Best of Both Worlds’ Nov 13, 2009
Pulitzer-winning playwright Paula Vogel ( How I Learned to Drive ) says she wrote Civil War to reach even the youngest members of her multicultural, multiracial, multi-religious family, some of whom live in the Boston area. Bringing in the choruses was a natural extension. (Boston Globe)
Playwright Sarah Ruhl has works set for Boston, Broadway Oct 11, 2009
She aspired to be a poet, but during her senior year as an English major at Brown University, she asked Paula Vogel, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, to advise her thesis paper about actresses in the 19th-century novel. Vogel, who had been astonished by Ruhl s work in her playwriting class, told the young woman that she d advise her thesis, but only if she wrote a play instead. (Boston Globe)
Fall theater productions Sep 13, 2009
A CIVIL WAR CHRISTMAS: AN AMERICAN MUSICAL CELEBRATION Paula Vogel ( How I Learned to Drive ) blends historical figures (Abraham Lincoln, Clara Barton, Walt Whitman) with composite or fictional characters (an African-American blacksmith for the Union Army, a Confederate rebel) in a story of entwined lives set on Christmas Eve 1864, in Washington, D.C. Nov. 13-Dec. 13. (Boston Globe)
Magical moments in 'Shapeshifter' May 9, 2009
Still, Trinity Repertory Company, where Schellhardt first developed the play in 2003 as a student of Paula Vogel, gives "Shapeshifter" an engaging production in its professional premiere. The play's roots lie in the assorted myths of women who can change shape, from human to animal and back again. (Boston Globe)
THEATER REVIEW | 'HEDDA GABLER': Hedda's terrible, horrible, no-good very bad day Feb 8, 2009
Parker (currently of the television series "Weeds") has provided some of my most pleasurable theatergoing moments, in plays by Craig Lucas ("Prelude to a Kiss," "Reckless") and Paula Vogel ("How I Learned to Drive"). Shinn ("Dying City") is one of the absolute best of a new generation of American playwrights. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
