Pride's Crossing

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.

This article is about the play. For other uses, see Prides Crossing.
Pride's Crossing
Poster for the Lincoln Center production by James McMullan
Written byTina Howe
Date premieredJanuary 1997 (1997-January)
Place premieredOld Globe Theatre
San Diego, California
Original languageEnglish

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."

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