I’ve been working on a draft of a new play (part of this Playwrights Foundation class) while prepping for a reading of a whole other play (part of this festival at Orlando Shakespeare Thea…
SOURCE: direct address at 08:46PMI just came home from a New York trip, if by “just” you mean “several weeks ago” and then you rewrite the sentence so it works grammatically. I saw some terrific shows, then came hom…
SOURCE: direct address at 02:43AMFrom a goddamn brilliant article by Mark Jackson on HowlRound: The next day Chloe [Veltman, critic for SF Weekly] ran into Rob Avila, critic for the San Francisco Bay Guardian, who said he�…
SOURCE: direct address at 03:16AMFrom an article by David Loehr on stage-directions.com: “Free for all.” “Membership has its privileges.” “All you can eat.” Theatres around the country are taking these sayin…
SOURCE: direct address at 02:00PMFrom The Third Quarter by Marissa Skudlarek: “Second-act problems” are a proverbial part of playwriting, but I propose that we could also call them “third-quarter problems.” When peo…
SOURCE: direct address at 12:56AMFrom an Interview with Jonathan Moscone by Deborah Cullinan on HowlRound: In art you can actually shape something in a creative way that goes underneath what people think they want or need.…
SOURCE: direct address at 11:55PMIf you read this blog, then you know about Adam Szymkowicz and his playwright interviews. Because you are Marisela Treviño Orta. Because I can’t imagine anyone else reads this blog. …
SOURCE: direct address at 07:36AMFrom an article by Dominic Orlando on HowlRound, about the founding of The Workhaus Playwrights Collective: We were all invited to a workshop with members of The Royal Court, in town present…
SOURCE: direct address at 05:16AMIf you look in the sidebar, you’ll see a couple of links to articles on my theater Tumblr, where I post links to theater-related articles. And there you’ll find links to two hot …
SOURCE: direct address at 06:39PMPhoto by Cheshire Isaacs Argh! I forgot to mention that I saw Cameron McNary’s Of Dice and Men at Impact Theatre last week, and it’s terrific. Really funny and a fantastic prod…
SOURCE: direct address at 04:12PMFrom an article by Chad Jones on SFGate: Three years ago, documentary filmmaker Austin Forbord set out to create a comprehensive look at the rich theatrical history of post-World War II San …
SOURCE: direct address at 10:04AMFrom an interview of Steve Yockey on Theatre Bay Area, by Lisa Drostova: The Bay Area has been so supportive in a number of ways. Audiences here see a lot of theatre and, as a result, have c…
SOURCE: direct address at 07:49PMFrom an article in SF Weekly: Between 1936 and 1939, the American federal government paid San Francisco theater workers to do what they did best: write plays and put on shows. The San Franci…
SOURCE: direct address at 01:17PMFrom an article on HowlRound by Polly Carl: Small personal moments of yes: HowlRound came about because of a yes. Just over a year ago I was having dinner with David Dower at the TCG Confere…
SOURCE: direct address at 12:57PM‘Theater and the Importance of Being Local’ Trisha Mead writing on Oregon ArtsWatch: Recently, Carey Perloff, the artistic director for the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco…
SOURCE: direct address at 04:22PMFrom an article by Trisha Mead: Recently, Carey Perloff, the artistic director for the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, posting on her Huffington Post blog, posited a new pote…
SOURCE: direct address at 01:42AMThirty-two new plays. Twenty-nine local writers. I was seriously thinking about pitching an idea about Gemini, until I realized I didn’t have any ideas about Gemini. Instead, I am seri…
SOURCE: direct address at 08:17PMOver at LA FPI, the Literary Manager of Impact Theatre, Steven Epperson, has a nice long article about lit manager pet peeves. It’s filled with mostly common sense advice, but speaking…
SOURCE: direct address at 07:50PMPhoto by David Allen Okay, so, I’m biased. First, I’m a sucker for Edward Albee. The rhythms of his dialogue hit my ear just right. I’ve read everything he’s written, and I’ve seen…
SOURCE: direct address at 11:35PMPhoto courtesy of kevinberne.com A couple days ago, I got the chance to see Rita Moreno at Berkeley Rep. She’s performing in a show about her life, starting with her arrival in the U.S. fr…
SOURCE: direct address at 08:36PMI have discovered a way to get more playwriting done. It involves taking Facebook and Twitter off your phone and only checking them once a day via your computer. Here’s a step-by-step …
SOURCE: direct address at 08:52PMI just learned about this from Melissa Hillman’s twitter feed and it’s the highlight of my day so far: there’s a new group that…well, here this is from their About Us…
SOURCE: direct address at 05:14PMSunday was wonderfully fun. I’ve been going to the monthly Portuguese Artists Colony readings for awhile, sometimes as a reader and sometimes as a listener. It has a cool vibe, like a …
SOURCE: direct address at 07:31PMMy friend, colleague and fellow pub night host (I almost said “beer drinker” but then I remembered she always drinks cider) Marisela Treviño Orta has a post up at 2AMT: Plays co…
SOURCE: direct address at 08:57PMChange for all shows: -3.88% Number of shows that increased over previous week: 7 Number of shows that decreased from previous week: 17 Biggest increase: JERUSALEM ($126,301) Biggest decline…
SOURCE: iBlogBroadway at 03:48PMLauren Gunderson has a post on 2AM about the rolling premiere of her play Exit, Pursued By A Bear, following its journey from ten pages stuck in a drawer to a rolling premiere by Synchronici…
SOURCE: direct address at 02:10AMFrom “Consider Yourself at Home” by Jean Schiffman on the Theatre Bay Area site: All around the Bay Area, more and more young troupes are structured to encompass a year-round ens…
SOURCE: direct address at 02:36PMFrom “What’s local got to do with it?” on the Crowded Fire Theater blog: To truly build a locavore theater community, companies both large and small must dedicate themselve…
SOURCE: direct address at 03:17PMWant to see my latest full-length play’s world premiere and final performance — all in the same night? Tomorrow night, The Un-Scripted Theater Company will do a cold reading of t…
SOURCE: direct address at 05:16PMFrom an article in the Huffington Post by Carey Perloff: In response to the burgeoning interest in revitalizing the Mid-Market section of San Francisco, and out of a desire to showcase the p…
SOURCE: direct address at 07:11PMI don’t know when I became such a big fan of Philip Levine. Possibly when I came across his Paris Review interview: One of the aspects of my own poetry I like best is the presence of p…
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