The uncertainty principle: Doubt is sure thing at New York City's pre-Tony awards ceremonies.(awards & prizes)
American Theatre, July, 2005 by Hart, Sarah
The juggernaut of this year's pre-Tony awards season boasted no 11 o'clock number, no flying machines, no swindlers and no knights who say "Ni." Instead, an unassuming drama--with a headlines-echoing plot and disquieting conclusion--swept the honors. (For complete awards listings go to www.tcg.org/americantheatre.)
Journeyman scribe John Patrick Shanley's Doubt--in which an unyielding nun suspects a charismatic priest of abusing a student--crossed the Broadway-and-Off divide (in a production by Manhattan Theatre Club) to round up the Pulitzer Prize and host of ...
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