Editing Suzanne Vega (section)

== Theater ==
Vega and [[Duncan Sheik]] wrote a play ''Carson McCullers Talks About Love'', about the life of the writer [[Carson McCullers]]. In the play directed by Kay Matschullat, which premiered in 2011, Vega alternates between monologue and songs.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/01/theater/suzanne-vegas-carson-mccullers-talks-about-love.html?_r=2 |title=Suzanne Vega's 'Carson McCullers Talks About Love' |author=Alan Light |date=April 27, 2011 |newspaper=NYTimes.com |access-date=May 26, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://theater.nytimes.com/2011/05/06/theater/reviews/suzanne-vegas-carson-mccullers-talks-about-love-review.html |title=The Alienated Souls Whisperer |author=Charles Isherwood |date=May 5, 2011 |newspaper=NYTimes.com |access-date=May 27, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.theatermania.com/off-broadway/news/05-2011/carson-mccullers-talks-about-love_36840.html |title=Carson McCullers Talks About Love |author=Dan Bacalzo |date=May 6, 2011 |publisher=TheaterMania.com |access-date=May 27, 2011}}</ref> Vega and Sheik were nominated for Outstanding Music in a Play for the 57th annual Drama Desk awards.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dramadeskawards.com/2012-nominees.html |title=2012 Nominees – 57th Annual Drama Desk Awards |publisher=Dramadeskawards.com |access-date=September 7, 2012 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120816020115/http://www.dramadeskawards.com/2012-nominees.html |archive-date=August 16, 2012}}</ref>

The album ''[[Lover, Beloved: Songs from an Evening with Carson McCullers]]'', based on this play, was released in 2016.<ref name="wsj-mccullers"/><ref name="nimbit"/> Vega considers it to be a third version, because it's rewritten, and she made the first version in college.<ref name="theguardian">{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/oct/09/suzanne-vega-interview-carson-mccullers-lover-beloved |title=Suzanne Vega: 'It's taken me a while to say, You are what you are, it's fine' |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=October 18, 2016 |author=Anthony, Andrew}}</ref>

In early 2020, Vega played the role of "Band Leader" in an [[off-Broadway]] musical based on the 1969 movie ''[[Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice]]'', directed by Scott Elliott and produced at [[The New Group]] in New York City.  She replaced Sheik, who wrote the show's music and co-wrote the lyrics with [[Amanda Green]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://deadline.com/2020/01/suzanne-vega-off-broadway-bob-carol-ted-alice-duncan-sheik-1202825026/ |title=Suzanne Vega Adds Name To Off Broadway's 'Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice' Cast |author=Greg Evans |date=January 8, 2020 |newspaper=[[Deadline Hollywood]] |access-date=June 28, 2020}}</ref>  In his review for ''[[The New York Times]]'', critic [[Ben Brantley]] called the "brandy-voiced" Vega "a delightful, smoothly sardonic presence."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/04/theater/bob-carol-ted-alice-review.html |title='Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice' Review: Four on a Mattress, With Songs |author=Ben Brantley |date=February 4, 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=June 28, 2020}}</ref>