All The Drama is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of deep dives into the plays that have won The Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

The Pulitzer Prize for Drama: “Dinner With Friends”
2000 Pulitzer winner “Dinner With Friends”, by Donald Margulies

Dinner With Friends Wikipedia page
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinner_with_Friends

Donald Margulies Wikipedia page
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Margulies

Original Review: “A Menu Featuring Divorce And Fear” by Peter Marks, The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/05/movies/theater-review-a-menu-featuring-divorce-and-fear.html

“At the Junction Of Life and Art” by Robin Pogrebin, The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/03/movies/at-the-junction-of-life-and-art.html

Interview
Donald Margulies, Bomb magazine
https://bombmagazine.org/articles/2002/07/01/donald-margulies/

What Talent Wants to Serve: An Interview with Donald Margulies, by Zack Newick, The Paris Review
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/06/26/what-talent-wants-to-serve-an-interview-with-donald-margulies/

Behind the Scenes, Daily Nutmeg
https://dailynutmeg.com/blogs/blog/donald-margulies-featured-author-summer-reading-month-behind-scenes

“A Playwright Has His Dinner And Diner, Too” by Donald Margulies, The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2000/01/16/arts/theater-a-playwright-has-his-dinner-and-diner-too.html

Dinner With Friends movie on HBOMax
https://play.hbomax.com/movie/aba78301-4773-4bd0-840e-020250ffaa36

PLAYBILL ON-LINE’S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Donald Margulies
https://playbill.com/article/playbill-on-lines-brief-encounter-with-donald-margulies-com-101422

PLAY THAT CHANGED HIS LIFE

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Jan Simpson is a theater journalist who writes the blog Broadway& Me and hosts the BroadwayRadio podcasts Stagecraft and All The Drama. She has twice served as a Pulitzer Prize juror.