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Walter Kerr
Pulitzer prize winning playwright.
Kerr was born in Evanston, Illinois and graduated from Northwestern University. He became a theater critic for the New York Herald Tribune in 1951, then began writing theater reviews for the New York Times in 1966. He wrote for the New York Times for seventeen years. Kerr won a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1978.
In 1990, the old Ritz theater on West 48th Street was renamed the Walter Kerr Theatre in his honor.
His Plays
- How Not to Write a Play (1955)
- Criticism and Censorship (1957)
- Pieces at Eight (1958)
- The Decline of Pleasure (1962)
- The Theatre in Spite of Itself (1963)
- Tragedy and Comedy (1967)
- Thirty Plays Hath November (1969)
- God on the Gymnasium Floor (1971)
- The Silent Clowns (1975)
Walter Kerr Theater
New York City
Following a triumphant sold-out engagement, four-time Tony Award® nominee Tovah Feldshuh returns to Broadway this spring in the critically acclaimed, tremendously moving new play, Irena's Vow.
Featuring a cast of ten, Irena's Vow is the riveting, life-affirming story about one of the most courageous and unsung heroines of World War II.
Currently showing Irena's Vow
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