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Unlike the other fabulous artists writing this week, I'm a total newbie to Pittsburgh. Thing is, with Pittsburgh being voted such a livable city, there seems to be more and more of us newbie…
Company One theater in Boston is pleased to announce a special event for audiences on Sunday, June 10th. In celebration of the production of Aditi Brennan Kapil's Love Person, as well as col…
Matt Morrow, the new Associate Artistic Director of City Theatre, talks about his work with City Theatre, what excites him about new writers, and his recent return to Pittsburgh. Tammy: Pitt…
My first initiation into Pittsburgh wasn't the famed Steelers (pronounced "Stillers," if you're from the 'Burgh), six-inch high sandwiches layered with fries (they put fries on everything he…
Jamie Gahlon has asked theater artists from around the country to talk about their personal search for an artistic home. Stephanie Mayer-Staley continues this series. What makes an artistic …
The Weekly Howl is an open discussion about theater culture and the new works field that happens every Tuesday 12pm-1pm PDT (San Francisco) /1pm-2pm MDT / 2pm-3pm CDT (Chicago) / 3pm-4pm …
Maybe I should say who I am? Karla Boos, Artistic Director of Quantum Theatre in Pittsburgh, which I founded over twenty years ago. We make experimental work, original pieces and plays from …
Pittsburgh is nestled amidst the banks of three rivers: the Monongahela, the Allegheny and the Ohio which forms where the rivers meet at a confluence called The Point. There is something abo…
After reading Cary Perloff's recent article I will admit that I found myself slightly offended (okay maybe not so slightly). I was quite sure she was saying that we should abandon new plays …
The place is here, the time is now. Welcome to the Here & Now Project. In March, I put out a call for playwrights from across the nation, asking them to submit their work for…
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company will present a one-night-only reading of 8, a play chronicling the historic trial in the federal constitutional challenge to California's Proposition 8, writte…
This week I talk to Tony Taccone, artistic director of Berkeley Repertory Theatre. I’ve been in conversations with Tony over the last twenty years" he was an early mentor, an artistic …
FADE IN. That's how all of them start, the scripts I write for my LA projects. It's also how I've felt since moving from Chicago to Los Angeles. As if my life were a closed aperture with a r…
When I first moved to the new country, the language barrier was a hurdle I finessed by smiling or shaking my head, until a fabric store clerk cornered me and it took an excruciating moment t…
Picture this: It's the near future. Your candidate of choice has won the Presidency. As they stand before Congress for the State of the Union, he or she declares: "My fellow Americans, I sta…
The Ingram New Works Fellowship was created by Tennessee Rep co-founder Martha R. Ingram to provide an opportunity for theater artists to develop new theater works while in residency with Te…
The personal essay, “That Bitch, Corey Madden,” was first delivered at The Women Studies Seminar of the Huntington Library on May 12, 2012 in San Marino, California. http://hunti…
This post is the fourth column of a regular series on Parenting & Playwriting. Find the previous columns here. Here's what my advice column will offer you: a place to ask questions an…
A few months ago a play of mine, fml: how Carson McCullers saved my life premiered at the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago as part of their Young Adults programming. It was the first play I've…
Jamie Gahlon has asked theater artists from around the country to talk about their personal search for an artistic home. Ashley Forman continues this series. What is an artistic home? The di…
This time around I talk with Peter Brosius, Artistic Director of Children’s Theatre Company, in Minneapolis. Peter has got to be the prototype for that old energizer-bunny campaign"he …
Today I’m talking to Tony Graham, a UK Theater for Young Audiences director who was also recently a Fellow here. I have to admit that I have had very little direct experience with the …
Last Tuesday"using the Twitter hashtag “#newplay“"we discussed the topic of “Designers in New Play Development and Production” which was a highly-rated topic idea sug…
Theater for babies? Really? When I first learned of this sub-genre of the TYA field, I responded with the same healthy skepticism I suspect is shared by many theater practitioners, even thos…
I. The Perfect Audience Let’s you and I build the perfect audience for our new play. While we may differ on a few details, I’ll bet that our ideal audience would share some o…
