by David Auburn
April 20 – May 4, 2013
Previews: April 18–19
Johnson Theater, TPAC
Tennessee Rep Presents
The Columnist
David Auburn’s The Columnist--born from Tennessee Rep's Ingram New Works Project-paints a portrait of legendary and controversial Joseph Alsop and of a rapidly changing America.
For decades, Joseph Alsop was the most powerful journalist in the country: beloved, feared, and courted in equal measure by the Washington social world at whose center he sat. As the country and the world of journalism moved into a time of dizzying changes and drastic shifts, the intense political drama Alsop was embroiled in became deeply personal as well.Both intense and moving, David Auburn delivers intelligence and insight in one of the most gripping new plays to hit the American stage.
Documents and The Columnist Reviews
Theatre Review:
The Giddy Joy of Seeing Tennessee Rep’s The Columnist
- by Evans Donnell of ArtsNash
Theatre Review:
Tennessee Rep captures all the complexities of The Columnist
- by Amy Stumpfl of The Tennessean
Press Release:
May 31, 2012 - Major Announcement from Tennessee Rep: David Auburn’s The Columnist to Make Regional Premiere in Nashville