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3 Myths That Are Killing Literary Culture » By Michelle Richmond on Medium. A good read.
Linked From direct address at 07:59AMIn keeping with my latest trend of being asked to write stuff really, really quickly and then immediately present it to an audience – see last post about the Instant Play that I helped…
Linked From direct address at 12:37AMThursday ended up being a really fun night: Can you guess who I was in this description? EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED Artistic Director Loretta Greco and an acclaimed Bay Area playwright are conjur…
Linked From direct address at 12:33AMLast Sunday, I hosted the latest Portuguese Artists Colony literary event at Hotel Rex. I’ve met and discovered so many interesting and amazing writers and musicians through PAC in the…
Linked From direct address at 04:47PMCareer Advice for Young Playwrights » A fantastic article by Gwydion Suilebhan, with this advice: If you want to be a playwright, get a second career, too. With the same passion you pursue …
Linked From direct address at 02:30AM“The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the over-examined life can make you feel like there’s nothing to live for.” - Marissa Skudlarek
Linked From direct address at 02:30AMAn Interview with Owen Egerton » My friend (and dude I used to do a ton of improv with), the Austin-based writer Owen Egerton, was interviewed on the Read to Write website. In the article, …
Linked From direct address at 12:37AMWednesday was the first table read of the latest draft of my play Exit Wounds, which is getting a staged reading as part of Magic @ The Costume Shop: “a special residency at A.C.T.’s…
Linked From direct address at 09:24PMThe Problem with AEA Melissa Hillman, on her Bitter Gertrude blog: In the Bay Area, at least, AEA operates under a fundamental misunderstanding of its own market. Go for the discussion of BA…
Linked From direct address at 02:51PMHow the Portuguese Artists Colony Got Its Name Aisha Sabatini Sloan interviewed Caitlin Myer, the founder of the Portuguese Artists Colony. I’m a member of the group, and I’m oft…
Linked From direct address at 02:51PMTaking Charge of Our Own Evolution Over on his blog, Gwydion Suilebhan calls for “a new theatrical ecosystem for the United States”: We need to favor plays more than grant propos…
Linked From direct address at 02:51PMAustin’s Rude Mechanicals in BOMB Magazine Eric Dyer has an interview with the folks from Austin’s Rude Mechanicals in BOMB Magazine, timed to arrive with the Rude Mechs’ &…
Linked From direct address at 07:43PMI Believe: A Theater Manifesto by Taylor Mac Taylor Mac wrote a manifesto for the “From Where I Stand” symposium at the Under the Radar Festival. Some choice excerpts: I believe if NYC h…
Linked From direct address at 02:47AMWhat Playwrights Should Know, Part 1 The Artistic Director of Impact Theatre, writing on her newish Bitter Gertrude blog: I don’t have the time to do a full post about the submission proce…
Linked From direct address at 02:47AMTransient Theater Financial Report 2012 My friend Candice Benge runs Transient Theater, a traveling theater cooperative. Last year, they crowd-sourced funding for a tour across the United St…
Linked From direct address at 03:23PMMore importantly, I received one of my favorite reviews ever, from Stuart Bousel, who created the Stuart Excellence In Bay Area Theater Awards: BEST SHORT PLAY “Play It Again, Friend&#…
Linked From direct address at 07:04PMBlack Box Revolution George Heymont has a huge blog post about the San Francisco black box theatre scene that name checks just about every cool theatre group in the Bay Area: Cutting Ball, E…
Linked From direct address at 09:17PM“He’s such a generous spirit, you’d be embarrassed to behave in a small way around him.” - Tobias Woolf on George Saunders
Linked From direct address at 07:15PMGeorge Saunders Has Written the Best Book You’ll Read This Year George Saunders’ first short-story collection in six years, Tenth of December, comes out in a couple days, and Joel Lo…
Linked From direct address at 07:14PMFull Video of Cutting Ball’s Strindberg Cycle Cutting Ball Theater here in San Francisco recently produced a cycle of five Strindberg Chamber Plays. You can now watch video of all five…
Linked From direct address at 07:04PMAttention Must Be Paid Isaac Butler is on break from grad school, so he has time to do some blogging about theater. Today on Parabasis, he has a post “about ‘Tweet Seats,’ …
Linked From direct address at 07:04PMplaywrightsnotebook: On Space Jenny Connell offers some good exercises from Lisa D’Amour’s workshop at the Flea: Here’s a few things to ponder/questions to ask, either next…
Linked From direct address at 02:44PMThe 3rd annual SF One-Minute Play Festival opens tomorrow, and two of the 70 plays are written by yours truly. It’s a pretty fantastic evening, with new plays coming at you every minut…
Linked From direct address at 07:26PMType So Hard You Bruise the Screen My friend Owen Egerton, who was just named Best Local Author 2012 by the Austin Chronicle, put together a list of thirty points for writers, in the spirit …
Linked From direct address at 10:10PMThe Bookstore Strikes Back When Nashville lost its last two local bookstores, novelist Ann Patchett decided to open her own. The Atlantic has a wonderful (and long) article that she wrote ab…
Linked From direct address at 03:43PMScript Designer by Tom Horan Tom Horan writes on HowlRound about the differences between writing conventional plays and working as the playwright on devised work: I split my time between con…
Linked From direct address at 10:10PMPianoFight Breaks Ground at 144 Taylor Street This is probably the greatest news of all-time that has ever been announced anywhere: PianoFight is proud to announce today it is breaking groun…
Linked From direct address at 10:10PMLegendary Broadway performer and choreographer Baayork Lee sat down with us exclusively to discuss the upcoming revival of A Chorus Line at the London Palladium. We caught up with her as au…
Linked From Cheap Theatre Tickets at 01:47PMWe’re giving away an amazing prize for the UK’s biggest Spice Girls fan. It’s one of the most widely anticipated shows of the year, as fans have been clamoring to see the w…
Linked From Cheap Theatre Tickets at 08:24AMAs the weakening super storm moves west, the lights are blazing again on the Great White Way after several days of closures and perhaps $5 million in lost revenue.NEW YORK – Sandy dimm…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 01:54PMEveryone’s talking about the world premiere of The Bodyguard musical, with previews starting on 6 November at the Adelphi Theatre, and we’re giving away an exclusive prize includ…
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