The Best Plays Theatre Yearbook series editor Jeffrey Eric Jenkins announced today that next year's edition will see a variety of personnel changes.
Robert Brustein will become Consulting Editor, and Sylviane Gold, Charles McNulty, and Anne Marie Welsh will become members of the Editorial Board.
Robert Brustein has been a member of the Editorial Board since it was created by Jenkins in 2001. Brustein now assumes the role filled by the late Henry Hewes, who died in July at age 89.
Sylviane Gold, the 1982 George Jean Nathan Award winner for her work at the Boston Phoenix, takes the seat vacated by Brustein. Gold has been a theater writer since 1970. She is chair of Newsday's George Oppenheimer Award committee, which is given annually to a promising playwright.
Charles McNulty and Anne Marie Welsh both work for daily papers in Southern California. McNulty is head theater critic for The Los Angeles Times, and former theater editor of The Village Voice. Welsh is the theater critic for the
San Diego Union Tribune.
The Best Plays Theater Yearbook 2005-2006 is scheduled for release in Spring 2007. The anthology is slated to include
The History Boys by
Alan Bennett,
Red Light Winter by
Adam Rapp,
Third by
Wendy Wasserstein,
In the Continuum by
Danai Gurira and
Nikkole Salter,
The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow by Rolin Jones, and more.
