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SOURCE: Daily Plays at 04:35PMthings have been busy.click on these things to find out about this amazing Collaboration I have been working on: nytheatre review Brooklyn Rail Article WE PLAY FOR THE GODSand…
SOURCE: Daily Plays at 11:31AMIndie Theater Now has been creating an on-line collection of plays, and today LOCAL STORY is live on the site.You can read it for a pittance. Then you can dream of tiny Betsy and learn the …
SOURCE: Daily Plays at 11:13AMI have a post up over at the Coyote Commission Project Blog.You should read it.Here.
SOURCE: Daily Plays at 10:41AMIn case you missed the current issue of The Dramatist - which, I know, you may have, but you would have missed an excerpt of my play. And that would be too bad - so here is the excerpt. T…
SOURCE: Daily Plays at 01:16PMThat is described quite finely on HowlRound from the Producers Perspective...And through the year will also be described from the directors and the playwrights perspective.We're in the thick…
SOURCE: Daily Plays at 09:49AMI'm also posting at the Coyote Commission Blog.Writing about starting writing...click here:http://coyotecommissionprojectblog.blogspot.com/it's a music & reading experience combined.
SOURCE: Daily Plays at 10:38AMSeptember 19NYCDramatist Guild Fellows Night of ExcerptsPlaywright's Horizons7pmI'll be presenting a scene from THEN AND NOWfeaturing:Sarah Kate JacksonChris Kipiniakdirected by: Kyle Ancow…
SOURCE: Daily Plays at 10:34AMCommissioned and presented by The New World Festival, Inc. in Miami Florida in 1982 and then moved intact to NYC in 1983 Angels Fall is a character driven 2-act play that takes place in an i…
SOURCE: Daily Plays at 01:39PMI've been away from this. I've been reading, but mostly unpublished scripts. And I've been writing. And the teaching. That's also been happening. But, happily, I started reading plays ju…
SOURCE: Daily Plays at 04:01PM7pm Monday.April 18, 2011.Julia Miles Theatre424 W. 55th StreetN.Y.C.You are invited to attend a reading of:THE HEART IN YOUR CHESTa dystopian romanceWritten byKristen PalmerDirected byJulie…
SOURCE: Daily Plays at 12:39AMA play with a long production history, Seascape with Sharks and Dancer was first done at the Theatre Barn at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst in 1974. It went on to productions at…
SOURCE: Daily Plays at 01:47PMSo, elsewhere on the web there have been assertions that playwrights are disconnected from their communities and the nuts and bolts of theater-making. This may be true in some cases, but no…
SOURCE: Daily Plays at 10:13AMI am not a scholar of French Theatre, this might actually be my first reading of a classical French work, so please feel free to fill in my gaps and clarify my misunderstandings. My first q…
SOURCE: Daily Plays at 08:28AMHello all,So I'm re-doing this site to serve as a place to find information about my plays and projects - as well as other people's.I am feeling pretty remedial at this, so please forward an…
SOURCE: Daily Plays at 06:41PMPremiered at Steppenwolf then Playwrights Horizons, The Pain and The Itch is a satire of liberal suburbanites so focused on their correctness they don't perceive the rot in their own house.I…
SOURCE: Daily Plays at 03:10PMProduced in NYC by Clubbed Thumb in 2003, The Typographer's Dream has three characters who speak directly to the audience (most of the time.) They talk about their jobs.There is a Typograph…
SOURCE: Daily Plays at 02:32PMPublished in the 2009 New York Theater Review, McLaughlin states in her introduction,Kissing the Floor is the ninth play I've written that is directly inspired by a Greek text, and though it…
SOURCE: Daily Plays at 08:29PMThe Long Christmas Ride Home was first produced in 2003 in a co-production by The Long Wharf Theater and Trinity Rep, it moved to NYC later in the year.In her introduction Vogel cites a misu…
SOURCE: Daily Plays at 10:22AMFirst produced by Steppenwolf in 2007, then in NYC at Second Stage Theater in 2008, Aguirre-Sacasa's play Good Boys and True is a play that works kindof like a funnel, or more precisely like…
SOURCE: Daily Plays at 03:14PMThe Dew Point premiered in 2001. It's a 2 act play with 4 scenes in the first act and 6 in the second. 5 characters, three women and two men. In a quick nutshell, Mimi is engaged to Kai, …
SOURCE: Daily Plays at 09:18PMSometimes I assume things. Like my friend Kyle. When first introduced I thought he was a Marine Biologist. Turns out he's a theater director (among other things), but it may have been a y…
SOURCE: Daily Plays at 10:40AMContinuing reading Barker today, while waiting for an oil change. A TV blaring a game show. I'd even thought that today wouldn't be a bad day to sit in a waiting room. The Olympics are o…
SOURCE: Daily Plays at 05:02PMContinuing a week of Barker, maybe longer...Seven Lears takes as its starting point the wonder about the mother, the queen, Lear's wife. How she is never mentioned in Shakespeare's play and…
SOURCE: Daily Plays at 08:47PMI've been reading this play for a week. On and off. I should go back and read it again, to grasp, to wallow in it, to follow the fissures. What I think I will do is forge ahead and read m…
SOURCE: Daily Plays at 03:48PMThe earliest of the published plays, and it feels it, very raw, loud when it wants to be, little restraint - working exactly right for this play's brutal cri d'couer.I'm interested in Silver…
SOURCE: Daily Plays at 09:47AMI love reading multiple plays by one writer. Obsessions and patterns emerge, but also each play's unique way of weaving the material, texturing it. It's the same but different.Pterodactyls…
SOURCE: Daily Plays at 11:21PMI found a collection of his plays downstairs in the unpacked boxes, so there will be a few more of these. Excellently there was an introduction to this one. I love introductions written by …
SOURCE: Daily Plays at 01:04PMAnother shocking gaping hole in my play-reading life. Nicky Silver. Other than this one, just read today (by the fire, very nice) I'm shamed to say I'd only read Free Will and Wanton Lust,…
SOURCE: Daily Plays at 06:01PM1959. Harvard. Undergrad Arthur Kopit writes the play that will launch his career, and defines a generational response to the horrors the world has faced. Well, maybe not the last stateme…
SOURCE: Daily Plays at 07:29PMPublished in Theatre Forum #35, and translated from the German by Neil Blackadder, Tattoo unfolds in a modern, European city. Fred and Lea are broke artists, Fred is working on a novel, Lea…
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