Thursday, February 7, 2013
Taking 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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The 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…
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How 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…
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Austin’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’ &…
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What 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…
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I 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…
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Transient 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…
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More 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&#…
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Black 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…
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George 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…
SOURCE: direct address at 07:09PM“He’s such a generous spirit, you’d be embarrassed to behave in a small way around him.” - Tobias Woolf on George Saunders
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Attention 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,’ …
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Full 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…
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playwrightsnotebook: 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…
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The 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…
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Type 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 …
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The 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…
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Legendary 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…
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Script 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…
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We’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…
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PianoFight 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…
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Everyone’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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As 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…
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Does Willy Loman Need Protecting? Terry Teachout, writing on WSJ.com: Simon Stone, the resident director of Belvoir St. Theatre, an Australian company, jumped head first into a pail of boili…
SOURCE: direct address at 12:15PMWith a Sweep, Giants Are Champions Again Andrew Keh in the New York Times: With bristly winds swirling and a World Series championship on the line, the San Francisco Giants defeated the Detr…
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How a Tiny L.A. Theater Succeeded by Focusing on Local Playwrights So Bob Rusch, co-founder of L.A.-based SkyPilot Theatre, had this epiphany: He would throw SkyPilot into the breach by prod…
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On Saturday night, I was one of about 400 writers who performed their work as part of the San Francisco Lit Crawl: Celebrating Litquake’s closing night, Lit Crawl is the world’s largest …
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Today’s the 50th anniversary of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and the media is celebrating with interviews of Albee and recollections from people who saw the orig…
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Junot Díaz Hates Writing Short Stories Good lord, Junot Díaz even writes genius sentences while talking off the top of his head: What are the mistakes you make? First of all, nonsense char…
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The Dramatists Guild is in town! I mean, the New York contingent is in town. Gary Garrison, Executive Director of Creative Affairs, and Roland Tec, Director of Membership, are visiting San F…
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Five short stories about David Rakoff I’ve been reading Sarah Hepola since way back when I lived in Austin and she wrote for the Chronicle. Her writing is exquisite, and this piece fro…
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