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The Hotel Play
Wallace Shawn
The Hot L Baltimore
by Lanford Wilson
Awards & Recognition
Obie Award Outer Critics Circle
Winner of the New York Drama Circle Award, the Obie Award and the Outer Critics Circle Award
Synopsis
THE STORY: The scene is the lobby of a rundown hotel so seedy that it has lost the e from its marquee.
As the action unfolds, the residents, ranging from young to old, from the defiant to the resigned, meet and talk and interact with each other d
Press Reviews
"Winner of the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best American Play and the Obie Award for Best American Play. Brings compassion, humor and arresting theatricality to its imaginative, touching study of lost souls trapped by society's inexorable decay. ”…as good as you will find in the modern American theater…Wilson's writing is simply superb, a triumph of inspiration and craftsmanship.” —Women's Wear Daily. “Mr. Wilson is both funny and sad about today, and the combination is an unbeatable winner.” —The New York Times. “…a warm, intelligent, wonderful evening in the theater."
— Village Voice
Publication
Publisher Dramatists Play Service
Year 1998
Binding Paperback
Pages 74
Language English
ISBN-13 9780822205333
ISBN-10 0822205335
LCC PS3573.I458 H65 1973b
The Hot L Baltimore is a American play written by Lanford Wilson and published by Dramatists Play Service (1998).
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