All the Drama: The Great White Hope, 1969 Winner, Pulitzer Prize for Drama

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: "The Great White Hope"
1969 Pulitzer winner “The Great White Hope”, by Howard Sackler

Great White Hope Wikipedia page:
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_White_Hope

Howard Sackler Wikipedia page:
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard

The Great White Hope script
https://www.concordtheatricals.com/p/8781/the-great-white-hope

“Theater: Howard Sackler's 'Great White Hope'; Play at the Alvin Stars James Earl Jones Edwin Sherin Staged Cheated Hero's Story” by Clive Barnes, The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/1968/10/04/archives/theater-howard-sacklers-great-white-hope-play-at-the-alvin-stars.html

The Great White Hope by Dolores Whiskeyman, CurtainUp DC review of Arena’s 50th anniversary revival
http://www.curtainup.com/greatwhitehope.html

“The Legacy of ‘The Great White Hope’” by Will Harris, Smithsonian Magazine
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/looking-back-legacy-great-white-hope-180977089/

HOWARD SACKLER, 52, PLAYWRIGHT WHO WON PULITZER PRIZE, DEAD” by Carol Lawson, The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/1982/10/15/obituaries/howard-sackler-52-playwright-who-won-pulitzer-prize-dead.html

Playwright Won Pulitzer Prize: Howard Sackler, 52, Is Found Dead, The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1982/10/16/playwright-won-pulitzer-prize/6a5cd393-e21f-4ae5-90a1-2d8878d1c4ff/

“Masterly Drama In ‘Semmelweiss’” by Mel Gussow, The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/1977/11/24/archives/westchester-opinion-masterly-drama-in-semmelweiss.html

“STAGE: 'SEMMELWEISS,' STORY OF A MEDICAL HERO” New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/05/22/theater/stage-semmelweiss-story-of-a-medical-hero.html

The Great White Hope, 1969 Tony Awards excerpt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hidrz6nrD3c

The Great White Hope full audio recording
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvw-p-oFZb4

The Great White Hope, 1970 movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbA6MqD-ihI

Jack Johnson boxing highlights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUqhJzgSj4M

Unforgivable Blackness: the Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (PBS video)
https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/unforgivable-blackness/

James Earl Jones Charlie Rose interview, 1993
https://charlierose.com/videos/18970

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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.