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We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not that men in high places lie, only that they do so with su…
Write Out Front is an installation of seventy-six award-winning and up-and-coming (so much sexier than "emerging") playwrights writing new plays in the window of the Drama Book Shop in New Y…
This essay follows a previous one, entitled Dialogue and the Age of Industrial Storytelling (Or, A Defense of the Theater). It is less a continuation of its predecessor than a response to it…
Join us every Thursday at 18:00 GMT / 7pm BST / 2pm EDT / 1pm CDT / 11am PDT for the Weekly Howl, an open discussion about theater culture and contemporary performance that happens on Twi…
A provocation. A proposal. And a plea. The provocation: What would happen if we were to think of new translations of plays, both classical and contemporary, into English the same way that we…
The American theater landscape now, whether seen from an aerial view or at street level, reveals a rapid process of shifting and re-imagining"in seismic proportions, it seems, of late. Thank…
“So, you're having a pretty intense weekend.” We received some version of that comment"separately and together"several times during the course of the Network of Ensemble Theater'…
The following is in response to Andy Horowitz's excellent essay on Culturebot. Dear Andy, Very exciting to read your thoughtful and expansive exploration of cross-disciplinary social practic…
I have been in show business for over twenty years. Because I'm not rich and/or famous, that true statement should be accompanied with a stinky cigarette and a cynical, weathered demeanor. B…
And just like that, it's done. After three months, and twelve plays covering a wide swath of topics in diverse styles across four states, The Here & Now Project for the summer of 2012 ha…
Today, dear listener, I have both a treat and a challenge for you. My guest is Julianne Brienza, co-founder and Executive Director of the Capital Fringe in Washington, DC. That’s the t…
The United States' most visited city, Orlando, Florida, is the destination of nearly fifty-five million tourists annually. [1] A city littered with hotels, restaurants, dinner shows, mega-ma…
Every year, under a combination of masochism and duress, I submit banished? productions' application to the Capital Fringe. This application will fall somewhere in the middle of a moun…
The road from artistic concept to actual fruition is a long, hard, and potentially expensive one. How many of us have been awakened from a dream to jot down on a piece of paper next to the b…
When I'm asked about the benefits of writing/producing at Capital Fringe, I fall into answers so familiar they seem cliché: It's helped sharpen my style. It's a perfect crash course in self…
The Weekly Howl is an open discussion about theater culture and the new works field that happens on Twitter using the hashtag "#newplay." This week we’re talking about Fringe Festiv…
Against all odds, adversity created an ideal setting for Fringe. GENESIS STORY In 2007, I was a young whippersnapper plunging into St Louis from my semi-cloistered undergraduate life. Eyes b…
Seems you can't swing a dead cat or any other metaphorical animal these days without knocking into a ten-minute play. How the devil did this happen? Isn't a play supposed to be at least long…
Holler is a monthly advice column for theater artists trying to keep it all together. Email [email protected] with your questions, life-changing or trivial, professional or perso…
Theater is a form of knowledge; it should and can also be a means of transforming society. Theater can help us build our future, rather than just waiting for it. - Augusto Boal, Theater of t…
Every Friday this summer, The Here & Now Project has posted a new short play, written by one of four playwrights selected from across the United States. These plays focus on dramat…
Does it ever happen to you that you learn a new word or meet a new person and suddenly that person or word is everywhere? This happens to me all the time"I'm sure it does to you, too. Recent…
This call is with Geoff Sobelle and Trey Lyford, of rainpan 43. We’re focused on The Elephant Room, a piece they created with Steve Cuiffo that Paul Lazar is directing. It opens this w…
SITSTANDWALKLIEDOWN is a process of painting and drawing on space with choreographic gestures. It happens in public space so the performance is designed to collide with daily life. In this w…
There's nothing like seeing your words projected above the stage while hearing them spoken in a foreign language by the actors below. I first experienced this phenomenon when my contemporary…
