Steinberg Trust Establishes New Award for Playwrights

The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, in New York, has established the Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award, which trust officials said they established to make people aware of the importance of the theater to society, reports The New York Times.

The first of what the trust says will be an annual award will be presented tomorrow to Tony Kushner, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright behind the Broadway hit, Angels in America. The newly created prize amount is $200,000, the largest theater award in the country, and one of the biggest in the arts.

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