If you are interested in being a part of an annual playwrights’ festival featuring women writers and directors, then Stone Soup’s Double (XX) Fest 2.0 is for you! For the past five years…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 12:00PMA.C.T.'s New Performance Space: The Costume Shop Beginning this season, The Costume Shop, a new, versatile downtown venue located across Market Street from Civic Center's UN Plaza, will be h…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 10:00AMThe Great Play Download: Indie Theater Now by Loren Noveck “The richness of this golden age of playwriting (yes, I do think we’re in such an age)…is too broad, too diverse, too quick t…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 04:30PMArtists' Fellowships are $7,000 unrestricted cash awards made to individual originating artists living and working in the state of New York. Grants are awarded in 15 artistic disciplines, wi…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 04:21PMTHE WEEKLY HOWL Join HowlRound.com for a Twitter conversation on "A slushy in the Face: Musical Theater Music and the Uncool." See Dave Malloy's article HERE! Tuesday, Dec. 13th at…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 04:14PM10-Minute Play of the Month: JANUARY 2012 The theme for January 2012 is "Civil Rights." Although this is in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. (MLK Day is January 16) your play can b…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 12:00PMThere Will Be Words: New Play Workshop Vagabond Theatre Group’s There Will Be Words is a new play reading series aimed at introducing original works to Boston audiences. Following the read…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 10:00AMLeadership U[niversity] Program The Leadership U program was designed by TCG and is funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The overall intent of this program is to strengthen the field b…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 07:59AMNytheatre.com’s 2011 People of the Year Top row: Crystal Skillman, Chris Harcum, Stephanie Cox-Williams, Joan Kane, Gemini CollisionWorks (scene from ObJect) Middle row: Temar Underwood, D…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 02:00PMTake a break from the hectic holiday prep by joining us for the San Francisco edition of the Guild's Footlight showcase on Monday, December 19. These are Guild-sponsored readings of members'…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 12:00PMSaturday December 10 @ 4:30pm PST / 7:30 EST: Baye Kouyate (Tampa FL) The Feminazi by Suzanne Willett / Silverglass Productions (Tampa FL) the bull-jean stories (excerpts) by Q-Roc Ragsdale …
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 05:00PMFriday, December 9 @ 4:30pm PST / 7:30pm EST: When It Rains It Pours — Fire! by Artist Block, Quiana & Najah Frazier (Tampa FL) Four Poems: A Poet’s Prayer, The God’s Honest Truth,…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 12:38PMMountain Playhouse International Comedy Playwriting Contest The Mountain Playhouse International Comedy Playwriting Contest is now an annual event with the deadline of December 31st each yea…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 11:23AMLet Me Ascertain You, from award-winning investigative theater company The Civilians, is a weekly podcast series of performances crafted from interviews with real people about current and co…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 04:00PMSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS We accept submissions of new scripts from established and emerging playwrights. Hard copies may be sent to: Lorraine Hansberry Theatre 777 Jones Street San Francisco, CA 9…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 02:00PMClaire: I'm writing a new play and I want to share it with you as I write it. The play is titled "English for Beginners" and it follows a group of playwrights on a writer's retreat…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 12:16PMPi Theatre is pleased to offer you four short audio plays written by five of Vancouver’s most exciting contemporary playwrights and recorded live in front of a studio audience at CBC Studi…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 02:00PMToday’s sign of the apocalypse: Theaters setting aside Twitter-friendly sections by Keith Phipps You know how sometimes you go to a movie or a play or a concert and someone near you won’…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 12:02PMEach year during the Annual Meeting, NPN highlights new work of diverse contemporary performing and visual artists in the US. You will get to see performing arts work in lots of places: duri…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 12:00PMThis is a new article published in Shareable Magazine by Polly Carl and Vijay Mathew about building a new American theater movement inspired by opensourcing and the commons - READ THE ARTICLE
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 10:20PMTHE HOWL Today's HowlRound.com "Weekly Howl"- Our weekly Twitter conversation on hashtag '#newplay' about New Theater - was OFF THE HOOK! Thanks to all that came to talk about 'Cre…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 04:13PMFellows work one-on-one with our artistic director and staff to bring their work from a rough draft to a production-ready work through a process of monthly review and revision in a challengi…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 02:00PMNow Accepting Composer Applications through Jan. 13, 2012 The New Dramatists Composer-Librettist Studio, presented in cooperation with Nautilus Music Theater, is designed to provide an oppor…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 12:00PMEvery year, we honor 50 of America’s finest artists with fellowship awards of $50,000 each. The new USA Fellows for 2011 represent some of the most innovative and diverse creative talents …
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 10:00AMNew Works Festival: new play submission Scripts must be received by January 1, 2012 to be considered for the 2012 Festival. Each year, Kitchen Dog Theater selects one original script to rece…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 04:00PMIrugo Muto answers "What's The Future of Theatre" If you want to share your video on this blog: 1. You can go to youtube.com/my_webcam 2. Record Your Response with your webcam 3. A…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 02:00PMTHE WEEKLY HOWL Join HowlRound.com for a Twitter conversation on the topic of "A Creative Room of One's Own". See Polly Carl's article HERE! Tuesday, Dec. 6th at 12pm-1pm Pacific /…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 01:00PMNew York Theatre Workshop is now accepting letters of intent to apply for the 2012-13 Emerging Artists Fellowships for directors and playwrights. Since 1995, New York Theatre Workshop’s Em…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 12:00PMANNOUNCING ARACAWORKS WINTER 2011 A Reading Series of New Plays Featuring New Works By Sam Holcroft, Jacquelyn Reingold, Kenneth Lin, Eli Clark, and Caroline V. McGraw Admission is free and …
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 04:41PMTwitter plays, part CXLII It’s Twitter Plays CXLII! This week’s assignment was: write a 1-tweet play that takes place in a CAVE or UNDERGROUND. Here are your plays starting with @coreyal…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 03:30PMThe void in the local theater scene caused by the sudden closure of Florida Stage may soon be filled. By the founding producing director of Florida Stage. Louis Tyrrell, who began the nonpro…
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