All The Drama: “That Championship Season” by Jason Miller, 1973 Pulitzer Prize Winner

All The Drama is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of deep dives into the plays that have won The Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

The Pulitzer Prize for Drama: "That Championship Season"
1973 Pulitzer winner “That Championship Season”, by Jason Miller

Jason Miller Wikipedia page

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Miller_(playwright)

That Championship Season Wikipedia page

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/That_Championship_Season

That Championship Season script

https://www.amazon.com/Championship-Season-Acting-Theater-Productions/dp/0822211262

Scranton Public Theatre

https://scrantonpublictheatre.org/

New York Times review of original 1972 production by Clive Barnes

https://www.nytimes.com/1972/09/15/archives/stage-that-championship-season-uptown-move-scores-first-hit-of.html

New York Times review of 1982 film by Vincent Canby

https://www.nytimes.com/1982/12/09/movies/championship-season-prize-play.html?searchResultPosition=1

Variety review of 1999 revival by Charles McNulty

https://variety.com/1999/film/reviews/that-championship-season-2-1200457139/

New York Times review of 2011 revival by Ben Brantley

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/07/theater/reviews/07champ.html?searchResultPosition=3

“Remembering Actor, Playwright Jason Miller” WNEP in Scranton

https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/lackawanna-county/remembering-actor-playwright-jason-miller/523-7b879c7d-bce3-4199-8134-e9b43be8a7fb

“Jason Miller, Playwright and Actor, Dies at 62” by Robin Pogrebin, The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/15/arts/jason-miller-playwright-and-actor-dies-at-62.html

“Conjuring Memoires of Jason Miller,”  by Kelsey Wynn, The Aquinas, the student newspaper at the University of Scranton

https://aquinas.scranton.edu/2020/10/22/priests-of-scranton-past-remembering-the-exorcists-jason-miller/

“The Brief and Terrifying Glory Of Jason Miller” by Neely Tucker, The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2001/05/19/the-brief-and-terrifying-glory-of-jason-miller/cd49b955-e926-4211-a271-4664a0e8aaef/

Actor Jason Miller talks with Director John A. Gallagher

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF6sQo4IX9w

That Championship Season video, 1999 version

https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/0K61W8BCQHSH0XWZ6SS3VG8D0G/ref=atv_dl_rdr?tag=justus1ktp-20

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Jan Simpson is a theater journalist who writes the blog Broadway& Me and hosts the BroadwayRadio podcasts Stagecraft and All The Drama. She has twice served as a Pulitzer Prize juror.