FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 23, 2020 || CONTACT: Corinna Schulenburg, cschulenburg@tcg.org, 212-609-5941
New from TCG Books:
Straight White Men / Untitled Feminist Show
by Young Jean Lee
NEW YORK, NY – Theatre Communications Group (TCG) is pleased to announce the publication of Straight White Men / Untitled Feminist Show by Young Jean Lee. The version of Straight White Men included in this volume opened at Second Stage Theater in New York in the summer of 2018. Untitled Feminist Show premiered at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in the winter of 2012, followed by a remounting of the show at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York City.
“Young Jean Lee’s Untitled Feminist Show is one of the more moving and imaginative works I have ever seen on the American stage…what makes it so transcendent is its delicious ability to alternate the pain of being different with a sense of humor about lives not lived among the status quo.” —Hilton Als, New Yorker
“Straight White Men might be the most subversive thing that Young Jean Lee, one of American theater’s most keenly seditious practitioners, has ever done.” —Alexis Soloski, Guardian
“Young Jean Lee is, hands down, the most adventurous downtown playwright of her generation.” —Charles Isherwood, New York Times
Young Jean Lee, with Straight White Men, became the first Asian-American woman to have her play produced on Broadway. She has directed her work in more than thirty cities around the world, and is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two OBIE Awards, a Prize in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a PEN Literary Award.
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Theatre Communications Group would like to offer our special thanks to Paula Marie Black for her generous support of the publication of Straight White Men / Untitled Feminist Show by Young Jean Lee. Paula Marie Black is a Drama Desk, Drama League, Tony Award, Olivier Award, and Helpmann Award-winning producer dedicating her efforts in theatre to women directors, playwrights, and all people who have not had a voice. Women’s Voices in the Art of Theatre is an endowment that Paula established in perpetuity at La Jolla Playhouse, benefitting women as directors, playwrights, and book writers of musicals.
Straight White Men / Untitled Feminist Show
By Young Jean Lee
168 pages
June 2020
$16.95
Paperback
978-1-55936-503-1
eBook
978-1-55936-832-2
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