I have worked in the San Francisco Bay Area for more than twenty years. I am currently an Artistic Associate at The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre (LHT) and work as the Marketing Director for…
Panglossian Productions will present the first installation of its new Plays in Progress series: alive and on-line developmental reading of Elford Alley’s new play In Search of the Amh…
March finds the artistic and administrative team at Penumbra Theatre Company in St. Paul, Minnesota focusing on two objectives: one is celebrating the power of art to sustain and uplift cult…
At The Hansberry Project, we present the work of Black playwrights. We produce Black plays. We produce Black plays because we believe that black theater artists"artfully expressing their obs…
Throughout the history of American theater, the desire for a separate Black theater tradition has raised challenges and contradictions. Over the past decade, as many Black Theater institutio…
The Weekly Howl is a peer-produced, open-access discussion about theater culture and contemporary performance that happens on Twitter using the hashtag #newplay.* Join us Thursday, March …
"It is never too late to be who you might have been." "Attributed to George Eliot When I first read these oft-cited words, I was twenty-two and wanted to be a fiction writer. Headlining a su…
You're invited to join Suzan-Lori Parks from the lobby of The Public Theater for Watch Me Work which will be livestreaming for the peer-produced, open-source #NEWPLAY TV pr…
This is the first in a series of blogs that will chronicle the birth and infancy of New Play Frontiers. I will share the origins of this program, its impact on our organization, the process …
Sleeping Weazel in Boston is celebrating Women's History Month with Women In Action: a new wave of art, theatre, music, and performance, a four-day event beginning with a public discus…
The Weekly Howl is a peer-produced, open-access discussion about theater culture and contemporary performance that happens on Twitter using the hashtag #newplay.* Join us Thursday, March …
The first thing I noticed when I visited at SPACE on Ryder Farm is the quiet. It's quiet at SPACE on Ryder Farm. You could spend all day writing in the gazebo, and the only sound you'd hear …
A body is docile that may be subjected, used, transformed, and improved. The historical moment of the disciplines was the moment when an art of a human body was born, which was directed not …
In college, I found myself not getting cast in many plays, so I decided to produce my own. At the time I was taking a required Directing course, so to fulfill the credit my friend and I prod…
My play The Hummingbirds won the Internationalists Global Playwriting Contest. The award grants at least six different presentations in six different countries over the course of th…
These are particularly tough times for live theater; even John Moore says it in a recent post: Live Theater Ranks Among 10 Worst Industries for 2013 (and he was named one of the twelve most …
Somewhere along the way, American higher education picked up the duty of professional preparation. The Jeffersonian ideal of the liberal arts education as an end in itself, an inherent good,…
First off, a huge thank you to everyone who applied to write for our NewCrit initiative. We have been impressed by the quality of applicants from Atlanta, Chicago, Minneapolis, New York, and…
It has been fifteen years, two published versions, five translations, innumerable productions and tours both nationally and internationally, since the first production of Joe Calarco's radic…
The One-Minute Play Festival and Mixed Blood Theatre Present: The 1st Minneapolis One-Minute Play Festival at Mixed Blood Theatre This event will livestream for the open source #NEWPLAY TV p…
You're invited to join Suzan-Lori Parks from the lobby of The Public Theater for Watch Me Work which will be livestreaming for the open-source #NEWPLAY TV project. The thir…
"It’s so much not enough. It’s so inadequate. But still bless me anyway. I want more life." ― spoken by Prior Walter in Tony Kushner's, Angels in America I read Maria Goya…
The Weekly Howl is a peer-produced, open-access discussion about theater culture and contemporary performance that happens on Twitter using the hashtag #newplay.* Join us Thursday, Februa…
"After Nora, Mrs. Alving had to come," Ibsen says about his own progression from A Doll's House to Ghosts. Though he anticipated the storm of criticism Ghosts would illicit from all but the …
NoPassport and NYU Gallatin present the seventh annual NoPassport theater conference: Dreaming the Americas Staging New Theaters/Challenging Hierarchies A one-day conference exploring the in…