793 stories by "Lindsay Price"
“A quick change is four seconds. A fast change is, like, 15 seconds” When watching the Tony’s this week, I was pretty cooled out to see the way Cinderella and the Fairy God…
Monster Problems is a brand new play for Theatrefolk – so new it’s not even in the catalogue yet! Â As we put the finishing touches in place, Â here are some pictures from th…
I received the trailer below for a production of Tuna Fish Eulogy and I think it’s great. It’s basically a commercial for the show, but also gives a clear indication of the style…
Over at Slate, Mason Curry has been collecting the daily routines of writers, artists and other creative people. How do they do it? How do they work every day? Balzac drank a lot of coffe…
Sometimes I see a picture, hear a sentence, something flashes in front of my eyes and a dramatic conversation instantly forms. It’s a moment that would come alive on the stage. This is…
I love words and how we use them. I love complex words with interesting means. (e.g. agelast: someone who never laughs. That is an awesome word and definition.)Â I love it when there are m…
The moment this became clear to me in practice, as it related very specifically to something I was writing"The book is not the movie"the separation became easy, as clean as a yolk from an…
I believe that environment plays a big part in productivity. The room in which I do most of my writing has windows on two sides. I have two options for sitting, I can spread out on a couch w…
 A dark ride  is an indoor amusement ride where riders in guided vehicles travel through specially lit scenes that typically contain animation, sound, music, and special effects. &#…
These past two months I have seen a one act play go from idea to production. Yes, that’s right two months. We started with two brainstorming sessions, I then went into the class (the p…
Here is an interesting question to ponder. Can Improv create change? I’m not talking small step interpersonal change, which is something I fully stand behind: Improv can create a level…
This is a great classroom exercise to not only have fun with Shakespeare but to also see how well students can re-frame which ever Shakespeare play they are studying. This picture is a poste…
Awhile a go I adjudicated a festival that involved a lot of student writers and directors. It was awesome to see their work and to talk to them about how they wanted to present their work. �…
If you could get into your DeLorean and time-travel to the day you started writing this, would you do anything differently? I think I would have written it faster. I think I would have n…
Sometimes the hardest part in getting started is coming up with that first line. Turning a blank page into writing. It’s always going to be easier to turn away from a blank page than t…
I don’t hate musicals. I grew up on them, I was listening to You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown when I was too young to know what it was about. I have an original album cover …
It’s the part of being a professional actor that only resonates once you’ve done it. Eight shows a week. Twice on Saturday. On paper it seems so manageable. If you’re…
“Spectators come to the theater to hear the subtext.” Stanislavski Subtext is a glorious medium. It adds depth – there’s the conversation that two characters are havi…
What is creativity to you? Here’s one picture found over at Creative Something. Click here to see the pic in a larger form. They plunked the word Creativity into Google followed by a s…
Over at Gotham Writers Workshop there’s a post that gives Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 basics of Creative Writing: Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not …
Today’s exercise is all about the list and the time limit. Both of which are excellent motivators in getting words on the page. That is the key to writing. We are writers, we are not w…
Teacher Stacy Meisetschlaeger talks about working with a very large Chorus in her production of Agatha Rex. Thank you so much Stacy for writing this great guest post! The Chorus in …
Because I live in a small corner of Canada and my plays are often performed far away from me, I don’t get to see many productions. So I love it when a director or a teacher reaches out…
Use this exercise to practice creating titles based on a picture. Find a photograph. A great source for public domain photos is flickr.com/commons. Take a few moments and study the ph…
I spend a lot of time thinking about the titles for my plays. It’s an important part of the process, mostly because in the bigger picture I’m an unknown. People who pick up my wo…
