The Story
$33.27
- Paperback
112 pages
- Release Date
27 October 2026
Summary
Winner of the 2004 Kesselring Prize for Playwriting
“Slick, smart and engrossing.” -Charles Isherwood, Variety
Rookie journalist Yvonne arrives at her first big job determined to prove herself as a serious investigative reporter, only to be segregated with the other Black reporters at Vanguard, a section of the paper focusing on human interest pieces in the Black community. When an incendiary lead comes to light, she pursues it with the hope of u…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781636702650 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1636702651 |
| Author: | Tracey Scott Wilson |
| Publisher: | Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 27 October 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 139mm x 215mm |
| Series: | Illuminations |
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Critics Review
”[A] riveting, tough-minded drama about race, reporting and the truth…the playwright paints a compelling portrait of a complicated woman whose desire to succeed overshadows everything else in her life…potent enough to leave theatregoers thinking about The Story for quite a while afterward.”
–Michael Kuchwara, Associated Press
“A conscientious and absorbing new drama by Tracey Scott Wilson…shows how biases, loyalties, excessive competition and internecine battles can cause serious and lasting damage both to people who report the news and people who make it.”
–Bruce Weber, New York Times
”[The Story] has both the insight and anger to ask the complex human questions that all too often get edited out of our superficial news cycle…Wilson exposes the story behind the story, which is exactly what we want dramatists to do.”
–Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times
“Wilson uses a failed writer’s lies as a jumping point to her own voice. It’s a voice that is deeply emotional, deeply intellectual, and deeply musical–the most modern blues imaginable.”
–Hilton Als, New Yorker
“A potent dramatic form for a provocative examination of the ways in which considerations of race affect the media, both behind the scenes and on the front pages.”
–Charles Isherwood, Variety
“Wilson realistically poses more questions than she answers, and she does so with a stylish, attention-holding script that ends on a chilling note that will leave viewers with much to talk about.”
–Elyse Sommer, CurtainUp
Tracey Scott Wilson
Tracey Scott Wilson’s other plays include Exhibit #9, Leader of the People, Order My Steps, Neon Mirage, The Good Negro, and Buzzer.
She is a recipient of the Time Warner Storytelling Fellowship, the Helen Merrill Emerging Playwright Award, the AT&T Onstage Award, a Whiting Award, the Kesselring Prize, an L. Arnold Weissmuller Award, a Joyce Award, and a writer-in-residency at the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center.
As a television writer, Wilson was a recipient of the Peabody Award, and was nominated for both a Writers Guild of America Award and an Emmy.
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