Rajiv Joseph - Wikipedia
Rajiv Joseph (born June 16, 1974) is an American playwright. He was named a finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, [1] and he won an Obie Award for Best New American Play for his play Describe the Night. [2]
Review: Real Russians and Fake News in ‘Describe the Night’
Dec 5, 2017 · His wife, Yevgenia, also lives on in the play well past her actual death (by suicide in a mental hospital) so that she may have a child by Babel and thus the grandchild who dines on her qureshi.
An interview with DESCRIBE THE NIGHT playwright Rajiv Joseph
Dec 10, 2019 · RAJIV: Too many to recount here! The truth is always crazier than fiction. When I discovered that Babel was close friends with Nikolai Yezhov—that a writer of subversive fiction could be friends with the head of Stalin’s secret police… and then have an affair with the man’s wife… that seemed almost too crazy to be true. Likewise, the ...
Describe the Night - Atlantic Theater Company
Dec 24, 2017 · Set in Russia over the course of 90 years, this thrilling and epic new play by Rajiv Joseph (Atlantic’s Guards at the Taj, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo) traces the stories of seven men and women connected by history, myth and conspiracy theories.
In ArtsWest and Pratidhwani’s ‘Guards at the Taj,’ beauty turns …
Sep 18, 2024 · While the love story behind the white marble monument, built between 1631 and 1648 by the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan as a memorial tomb for his beloved late wife, is well known, a bloody legend...
‘Describe the Night’: Theater Review - The Hollywood Reporter
Dec 5, 2017 · Six-time Tony Award nominee Danny Burstein and Zach Grenier of 'The Good Wife' are among the stars of 'Describe the Night,' Rajiv Joseph's drama spannng 90 years of Russian history. Every once...
Describe the Night at Steppenwolf Theatre - Theatre In Chicago
Apr 9, 2023 · Ensemble member Rajiv Joseph's sweeping and arresting epic follows the unlikely lives of seven Russians-soldiers and poets, KGB agents and babushkas-as they unearth mysteries buried by decades of history, fiction and blood.
Rajiv Joseph's 'Mr. Wolf': Theater Review - The Hollywood Reporter
Apr 21, 2015 · Divorced since the crisis, he has only one purpose in life, which unites him with his second wife, Julie (Kwana Martinez), a woman similarly coping with a missing child.
'Describe the Night' Theater Review: Delivering the Putin ... - The Wrap
That last one is perhaps a bit much, but Joseph never resorts to using the term “fake news.” Danny Burstein makes Isaac enormously deferential to the rough, boorish Nikolai, as well as enormously...
Review: 'Archduke' at TheatreWorks is funny and horrifying
Jun 10, 2019 · In the most literal sense, playwright Rajiv Joseph’s latest dark comedy “Archduke” is about the Serbian radicals who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie,...