All the Drama: "The Gin Game", 1978 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 Gin Game"
1978 Pulitzer winner “The Gin Game" by D. L. Coburn

Gin Game Wikipedia page
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gin_Game

D.L. Coburn Wikipedia page
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/D._L._Coburn

“In Praise of the Cronyns' 'Surreptitious Sleight-of-Hand'” original review by Walter Kerr, The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/1977/10/16/archives/stage-view-in-praise-of-the-cronyns-surreptitious-sleightofhand.html

“In the Anteroom” original review by Brendan Gill, The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1977/10/17/in-the-anteroom

“D.L. Coburn’s The Gin Game Won Him a Pulitzer in 1978. It Has Never Stopped Paying Off” by Peter Simek, D Magazine
https://www.dmagazine.com/arts-entertainment/2015/12/d-l-coburns-the-gin-game-won-him-a-pulitzer-in-1978-it-has-never-stopped-paying-off/

“In The Moment: An Interview With Playwright D. L. Coburn on The MetroStage Production of ‘The Gin Game’” by Dave Siegel, DC Theater Arts
https://dctheaterarts.org/2017/03/15/moment-interview-playwright-d-l-coburn-metrostage-production-gin-game/

D.L. Coburn, Playwright With a Sole Hit, ‘The Gin Game,’ Dies at 87’” by Trip Gabriel
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/theater/dl-coburn-dead.html

Coburn’s Gin Game site
https://www.thegingame.com/gg_author.htm

Original cast video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwVvi5jsdnI

Dick Van Dyke & Mary Tyler Moore version video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMw57CFZ-Gw

Patricia Bruder Debrovner: Wikipedia

Ethics and the Theater Presents: The Gin Game
April 5, 2025 @ 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
https://ethical.nyc/events/ethics-and-the-theater-presents-the-gin-game

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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.