| Pride's Crossing | |
|---|---|
 Poster for the Lincoln Center production by James McMullan | |
| Written by | Tina Howe |
| Date premiered | January 1997 |
| Place premiered | Old Globe Theatre San Diego, California |
| Original language | English |
Pride's Crossing is a play by Tina Howe. It received the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play and was a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.[1]
The play focuses on 90-year-old Mabel Tidings Bigelow, who as a young woman was the first female to swim the English Channel from England to France. In her introduction to the play, Howe wrote, "For some time now I've wanted to write about the passion of old ladies."[2]
- ^ "Pulitzer Prize for Drama" Pulitzer.org, accessed September 5, 2015
- ^ Howe, Tina. "Script" Pride's Crossing (books,google.com), Samuel French, Inc., 1998, ISBN 0573626561, pp.4, 6-7