![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “This year I felt that Broadway was the most exciting in terms of representation and a wide healthy spectrum of voices. “The fact that we are all present as three generations, to me, indicates a healthy system,” says Vogel. How about concurrently? Because the 2021-2022 Broadway season produced three generations of students and teachers - and the resulting Tony nominations honored them all: Vogel for Best Revival of a Play (“How I Learned to Drive”), her former student Lynn Nottage for Best Play (“Clyde’s”) and Best Book of a Musical (“MJ”) and their former student Christina Anderson for Best Book of a Musical (“Paradise Square”). “I also believe that people enter the room as my students but leave the room as my colleagues,” she adds, “and my hope has been that they get produced on Broadway before I do.” Because: Circles in theater rise faster than any individual can. “I espouse that we should form circles of support with our peers,” she says. A teacher for 46 years, Vogel frames the craft of playwriting as a collaborative process. The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, now nominated for her second Tony Award in as many Broadway outings, is simply punctuating a lesson she instills in her playwriting students. That sentence lands with such clarity and profundity, it sounds like a line from one of her plays. “Circles in theater rise faster than any individual can,” says Paula Vogel. ![]()
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