All the Drama: “The Gin Game”, 1978 Winner, Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Audio is streamed directly from the publisher (podtrac.com) as published in their RSS feed. Play Podcasts does not host this file. Rights-holders can request removal through the copyright & takedown page.
Show Notes
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
For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the episode name.
Jan Simpson | [email protected] | Facebook | Twitter
Broadway & Me
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.