Sibyl Kempson—who collaborated with Elevator Repair Service on this week’s preview performances of Fondly, Collette Richland—has been awarded the 2013–14 McKnight National Residency and Commission from Minneapolis’ Playwright Center.

New recipients of the Doris Duke Artist Awards have been named. Among them are artists who have shared our stage (or will), including Ping Chong, Myra Melford, Tere O’Connor, Pavol Liska, Kelly Copper, David Lang, Elizabeth Streb, Rudresh Mahanthappa, and others.

In the “sweetly subversive” Untitled Feminist Show—a Walker commission now being performed at Seattle’s On the Boards—Young Jean Lee “grabs cliches, wrestles them into submission, then makes them tell jokes,” writes critic Brendan Kiley.

Hailed in NYC, Ganesh Versus the Third Reich tells of the Hindu deity’s trip to reclaim the Sanskrit symbol of the swastika from the Nazis. Performed by actors with “intellectual disabilities,” it “never lets you settle into passive acceptance of anything it does.”