D.L. Coburn, Playwright With a Sole Hit, ‘The Gin Game,’ Dies at 87

His two-character work won a Pulitzer Prize and had a long Broadway run, but he never replicated its success and struggled to get his later work staged.
BroadwayWorld

The Gin Game Revival 2015

The Gin Game Broadway in 2015 - The Gin Game Weller Martin (James Earl Jones) and Fonsia Dorsey (Cicely Tyson) meet on the porch of their nursing home and strike up a friendship, with Weller teaching ...
New Times Broward-Palm Beach

“The Gin Game” at Palm Beach Dramaworks Reminds Us That There Are Few Second Chances

D.L. Coburn’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Gin Game is a two-character play set on the porch of a half-dilapidated old-age home, somewhere in deepest Americana. There, an old man named Weller (Peter ...
The Washington Post

Margaret Bush Is a Tonic For the Baffling 'Gin Game'

Director Roland Branford Gomez pulls his punches in Little Theatre of Alexandria's production of "The Gin Game," D.L. Coburn's 1978 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of two elderly people who have trouble ...
Tulsa World

‘The Gin Game’ opens at BACP

“The Gin Game,” a two-person, two-act prize-winning play by D.L. Coburn, will open at the Broken Arrow Community Playhouse at 8 p.m. Friday. Karyn Maio and Tom Berenson have the roles of Fonsia Dorsey ...