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Bookmark or Share- Beth Henley (Playwright) - StageAgentBiography for Beth Henley the Playwright including canon of works, monologues, songs, scenes and quizzes.
- Crimes of the Heart - WikipediaCrimes of the Heart is a play by American playwright Beth Henley. It is set in Hazlehurst, Mississippi in the mid-20th century. The play won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play .
- Mississippi Legends: Beth Henley - Magnolia TribuneJackson’s Beth Henley sprang to fame when her 1981 play Crimes of the Heart received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama even before its Broadway debut. She was thirty years old.
- Henley, Beth - Encyclopedia.comHENLEY, Beth. Born Elizabeth Becker Henley, 8 May 1952, Jackson, Mississippi. Daughter of Charles B. and Lydy B. Caldwell Henley. The eldest of three daughters of an attorney and an actress, Henley started out as an actress before beginning to write plays during a dry spell in her acting career.
- Beth Henley: Mississippi Pulitizer-prize winning playwrightBeth Henley is a modern female Pulitzer prize-winning playwright who creates, according to one critic, “Southern-accented” dramas and preserves “regional voices on stage” (Lesniak 199). She has written plays that capture Southern life and help preserve Mississippi’s rich literary culture.
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