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I Dominique Morisseau's Detroit '67 has won the Edward M. Kennedy Prize for plays inspired by American history. Morisseau will receive $100,000 and a custom-designed website featuring study guides, historical research and scholarly interpretations of the play. The Kennedy Prize finalists were Appropriate by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (read more on page 44), Fun Home by Lisa Krön and Jeanine Tesori (read more on page 50), Parly People by UNIVERSES, and the road weeps, the well tuns dry by Marcus Gardlev.
* The 33rd William Inge Theatre Festival and Conference in March honored playwright Arthur Kopit with the Distinguished Achievement in the American Theatre Award. In addition, Mat Smart won the Otis Guernsey New Voices Award. Smart's newest play The Great Barrier was presented at the festival.
* The 2014 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize was awarded in February to U.K. playwright Lucy Kirkwood for her play Chimerica. She received $25,000 and a signed Willem de Kooning print. The U.S. finalists in the competition, for female playwrights worldwide who have written Englishlanguage plays, were Sheila Callaghan, Lauren Gunderson and Theresa Rebeck. They each received $2,500.
* The American Theatre...