The pungency of sign language is not the subject of Mark Medoff's 'Children of a Lesser God,' which opened on Wednesday at Studio 54 in a mixed bag of a Broadway revival directed by Kenny Leon. But it ...

NEW YORK — Aside from a brief prologue, the first thing the character Sarah says in “Children of a Lesser God” is — well, I can’t tell you. That’s because Sarah speaks American Sign Language, and I ...

Mark Medoff, whose acclaimed play “Children of a Lesser God,” featuring a deaf central character, won the Tony Award for best play in 1980 and was turned into a 1986 movie that won an Oscar for its ...

Berkshire Theatre Group presents the Tony Award-winning Children of a Lesser God, directed by Tony Award-winner Kenny Leon. The play runs from Thursday (June 22) through Saturday, July 22 at the ...

Mark Medoff, a provocative playwright whose “Children of a Lesser God” won Tony and Olivier awards and whose screen adaptation of his play earned an Oscar nomination, has died in Las Cruces, New ...