Illyria (TCG Edition)

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Richard Nelson is a Tony-award winning playwright and director. Nelson received the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. He has also been the recipient of the Rockefeller Foundation Playwright-in-Residence Award (1979-80) Illyria had its world premiere at The Public Theater in October 2017. (Off-Broadway, New York). Nelson's play James Joyce's The Dead received a Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical. His works also include: The critically acclaimed The Apple Family Plays Both The Gabriels and The Apple Family Plays were broadcast as part of the "Great Performances" series on PBS Nelson wrote the book for the Broadway musical Chess (1988). The Vienna Notes earned Nelson an Obie Award for Playwriting. Some American Abroad earned him a Drama Desk Award for outstanding new play (2000). Nelson is the co-translator with Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky on the TCG Classic Russian Drama series

Richard Nelson's many plays include The Gabriels, The Apple Family, Nikolai and the Others, Goodnight Children Everywhere (Olivier Award for Best Play), Franny's Way, Some Americans Abroad, Frank's Home, Two Shake spearean Actors and James Joyce's The Dead (with Shaun Davey; Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical).

"A must-see for anyone who cares about the theater.--Robert Hofler "The Wrap" Gorgeous. Delicate & absorbing.--Sara Holdren "New York Magazine" Majestic! Transfixing!--Christopher Kelly "New Jersey Star-Ledger" "A grave and gossipy whisper of a play set in the Bohemian grooves of Manhattan in 1958, portrays a time when our thirty-seven-year-old birthday boy was down on his luck and feeling defeated. His name, by the way, is Joe Papp. If you keep quiet and behave well, even when others at this improvised shindig do not, you'll hear the murmur of cultural history in the making."--Ben Brantley "New York Times" "The story of a Great Man... Joe Papp's influence on twentieth-century theater is as outsize as Robert Moses's on urban development, though blessedly for the better... Illyria starts in media res, with the inner circle of the fragile yet ascen dant New York Shakespeare Festival talking business and eating sandwiches... Nelson, as always, invests us in what precisely each person we're beholding would be feeling in this particular moment in history."--Alan Scherstuhl "Village Voice"