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Richard John Nelson (born October 17, 1950) is an American playwright and librettist. He wrote the book for the 2000 Broadway musical James Joyce's The Dead, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical, as well as the book for the 1988 Broadway production of Chess. [1] .
Oct 25, 2019 · Richard Nelson’s new play The Michaels is about modern dance. Yet its roots lie in an effort to renew political theatre in the US. A decade ago, Oskar Eustis, artistic director of New...
- Max Mcguinness
Richard Nelson’s plays include the four-play series, THE APPLE FAMILY (THAT HOPEY CHANGEY THING, SWEET AND SAD, SORRY, REGULAR SINGING (Nominated for Outstanding Play in Drama Desk Awards 2014; Public Theater, 2010 – 2013), NIKOLAI AND THE OTHERS (Lincoln Center Theater, 2013), FAREWELL TO THE THEATRE (Hampstead Theatre, 2012), HOW ...
Sep 1, 2021 · Richard Nelson’s New Play Closes a Chapter of Theater History. “What Happened?: The Michaels Abroad” is the 12th and final installment in the quiet yet sweeping “Rhinebeck Panorama.”...
Nov 4, 2019 · The Theatre. Richard Nelson’s Family Cycles Capture Life in Real Time. The up-to-the-minute timeliness of the playwright’s work is like a magnifying glass that focusses and intensifies the...
- Alexandra Schwartz
Feb 15, 2022 · He invited Tony Award-winning playwright Richard Nelson to undertake a new translation of Ibsen’s classic text. Here, Nelson shares his reflections on the art of translation and the reasons Ibsen’s work resonates with American audiences.
Mar 18, 2015 · Richard Nelson (b. 1950) is a leading figure in American theatre but also a consistent documentarian of his country’s liberal consciousness. His series of plays about the Apple Family, written between 2010 and 2013, have been critically acclaimed for their portrayal of the upstate New York clan’s gatherings on significant historical days.
