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Dear Seattle, I confess. I love you. Okay? I do, I love you. My love is bald-faced and blatant. Unabashed, unashamed. You might think it's reckless of me to admit this, but when it comes to …
Join us every Tuesday for our weekly discussion on Twitter using the #newplay hashtag. We'll kick off the discussion on Tuesday, May 8 from 12pm-1pm PDT /1pm-2pm MDT / 2pm-3pm CDT / 3pm-4pm …
Live on #NEWPLAY TV at newplaytv.info, the Dramatists Guild of America will host a panel discussion entitled: “Contracts 101: E-Publishing” on Tuesday, May 8 at 2:30pm PDT / 3:30…
It was with a healthy dose of trepidation that my wife, young daughter and I moved to Seattle in 2005. Actually it wasn't a move, but a return: Northwest natives, we'd spent the previous fou…
Atlanta-based Alternate ROOTS will host a community conversation with Rocco Landesman, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, during his first visit to the state. The event i…
When Charles Mee writes plays, he draws heavily from existing literature, critical theory and other plays, particularly those of Ancient Greece. This interview was conducted related to the U…
This week I talk with director Pam MacKinnon. She’s just been nominated for a Tony for her work on Clybourne Park and I am really grateful she made the time to talk to me anyway. We sp…
I've been leading post-show discussions at Steppenwolf Theatre for five years. When I started, it was a great way to insinuate myself into the Steppenwolf environment, and to try to be a reg…
Live on #NEWPLAY TV, The Hybrid Art Summit 2012 is a two-day event during the Fusebox Festival in Austin, Texas exploring cross-disciplinary creative practice and its relevance to cont…
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Is it true that only particular kinds of plays can be popular enough to fill big houses like the Guthrie? Are we forced to focus on “what sells”? Are we serving humanity or are w…
1 Content. The industry moniker for stories, which are now fed, like fodder shoveled into a voracious human pipeline, disappearing"almost as soon as they are created"into a global tract more…
This post is the second column of a regular series on Parenting & Playwrighting. Find the previous columns here. Here's what my advice column will offer you: a place to ask questions …
For the last three years I have participated in that sacrificial rite of passage that so many theater artists have undertaken (and so many more theater artists have questioned): an MFA progr…
The discussion around the announced season at The Guthrie, and Polly’s powerful, and powerfully personal, response to it have put me in mind of the richness and vibrancy of the America…
Streaming live on #NEWPLAY TV on newplaytv.info from the Fusebox Festival in Austin, Texas is “Chewing the Fat: Delicious Conversations” on Friday and Saturday, April 27 and A…
One of the touchstone points of discussion to emerge in the wake of the publication of Outrageous Fortune: The Life and Times of the New American Play was that of transparency between artist…
Last week we wrapped up the third of four total sprints devoted to building version 3.0 of the New Play Map. Find the first two updates here and here. Our goals for the week were: To complet…
I've always said that the American musical hasn't meant much to me. I don't really connect to most of those stories told through singing and dancing. Then I saw a workshop performance of the…
Jamie Gahlon has asked theater artists from around the country to talk about their personal search for an artistic home. Faye Price continues this series. What makes an artistic home? Ideall…
Whether it's a black box theater or the form-fillable fields of a grant application, queer performance doesn't always fit neatly into a box. When performing artist and curator Kolmel WithLov…
Join us every Tuesday for our weekly discussion on Twitter using the “#newplay” tag. Tomorrow we’ll take Rebecca Novick’s article “Please, Don’t Start …
On a rainy Boston evening, I skipped with a dear, old friend of many decades and several crossings to the Paramount Theater in Boston, battling the puddles to see Peter Brook's production of…
On February 26, 2012 the life of a young son, friend, student, and football player was taken away in Sanford, Florida. We now know him as Trayvon Martin. On that same day a criminal justice …
I think one of the things an artist looks for is like-minded people who get them. Not necessarily agree on everything (now that can get kind of boring) but people who have an understanding o…
