Few playwrights seem to have the guts to get properly political - or satirical. Is Yes, Prime Minister really the best we can do?
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PMSasa Yung, a very young writer, reviews "Dances by Very Young Choreographers" at New York Live Arts.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 02:18PMAs his first solo album hits the stage, the You Am I singer asks playwright Aidan Fennessy the all important question: ‘what the hell were you thinking?’ Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:51AMElaine Stritch, the brassy, tart-tongued Broadway actress and singer who became a living emblem of show business durability and perhaps the leading interpreter of Stephen Sondheim's wryly ac…
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:16PMRob Ready and Ray Hobbs have an excellent podcast up and running. I have listened to every single episode, and I can firmly state that “Born Ready” is just as much fun as having …
SOURCE: direct address at 03:41PMLearning from the Gamification of Theater I’m in the beginning stages of developing a piece of immersive theater; I imagine that I’m not alone. I look at the droves of people playing …
SOURCE: direct address at 02:42PM‘The Speakeasy’ is Everything I Love About San Francisco » I’ve been posting about The Speakeasy a lot, but what else am I going to talk about? So here’s a great (an…
SOURCE: direct address at 12:29AMTheatreStorm Gives ‘The Speakeasy’ Five Stars » Charles Kruger reviews The Speakeasy, gives a shout-out to the Associate Head Writer, and says it’s “theatrical art o…
SOURCE: direct address at 10:26PMSFist Reviews ‘The Speakeasy’ From Boxcar Theatre » Hey, hey, the play that I was Associate Head Writer for got a really nice review from SFist: As immersive, progressive perfor…
SOURCE: direct address at 12:33AMAmerican Hustle I heard good things about this one, but I didn’t see it. Nebraska This one gets mixed reviews. Some people love it, some say it’s a bit dull, and some of us didn’t see …
SOURCE: direct address at 06:21PMYou know I’m in a group called Portuguese Artists Colony, and you know that we throw literary events from time to time, and now you know the next one will be on Sunday, January 5, at 5…
SOURCE: direct address at 09:41PMI can finally tell you what I’ve spent much of 2013 working on. I was a contributor to, and eventually Associate Head Writer of, a new immersive theatrical event coming to San Francisc…
SOURCE: direct address at 01:02AMStop Complaining that Young People Don’t Like Shakespeare » Melissa Hillman rocks, and this article is all you need to know about producing, directing or acting Shakespeare: If we’re go…
SOURCE: direct address at 02:35AM‘Zombie Town’ is an irreverent hit » It’s that time of year! My play Zombie Town: A Documentary Play is playing in three cities this year, and here’s how it’s going in…
SOURCE: direct address at 07:07PMBroadway’s Golden Age Reborn on Cable | The Millions » We have a platform for serious, character-driven drama in this country, and it is more popular and broad-based than Broadway ev…
SOURCE: direct address at 06:59PMPlayGround Announces 20th Season and Writers » At PlayGround’s 20th Season Kick-Off this past Monday, PlayGround Artistic Director Jim Kleinmann introduced the 2013-14 PlayGround Writers,…
SOURCE: direct address at 06:52PM‘Hoodoo Child’ 2-Minute Clip » Now you can see a two-minute clip of my short play “Hoodoo Child” on the Amios website, or on YouTube, or above, or all three. The The…
SOURCE: direct address at 06:46PM‘Hoodoo Child’ by Tim Bauer » The script for my short play “Hoodoo Child” is up on the Amios Theatre website, should you be so inclined.
SOURCE: direct address at 06:38PMAs you know, I’m a member of the Portuguese Artists Colony, “a collection of untrustworthy characters who gather regularly to engage in the disreputable act of writing.” W…
SOURCE: direct address at 02:44PMThe Walls Come Tumbling Down » Without going into too much detail yet, let’s just say I’m currently working on a production which makes this article in American Theatre magazine…
SOURCE: direct address at 03:00PMGood Criticism Encourages More » My friend (colleague? fellow PlayGround writer? other local tall playwright dude?) Aaron Loeb outlines a fantastic approach to criticism in his article on M…
SOURCE: direct address at 02:23PMBusiness Model: The Next Frontier » Scott Walters (The Prof) on The Clyde Fitch Report: I did a search on “innovation” and “theatre.” Here is what I found….Three theatre histo…
SOURCE: direct address at 04:37PM3 Myths That Are Killing Literary Culture » By Michelle Richmond on Medium. A good read.
SOURCE: direct address at 07:05AMIn 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…
SOURCE: direct address at 12:19AMThursday 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…
SOURCE: direct address at 11:35PMLast 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…
SOURCE: direct address at 03:49PM“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
SOURCE: direct address at 01:51AMCareer 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 …
SOURCE: direct address at 01:48AMAn 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, …
SOURCE: direct address at 12:06AMWednesday 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…
SOURCE: direct address at 08:46PMTaking 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…
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