793 stories by "Lindsay Price"
Oooooooh I love this. It makes me deliriously happy. Shared Worlds (which is a interdisciplinary creative summer school of sorts for teens through Wofford College)Â Â asked writer…
Groak: To silently watch someone while they are eating, hoping to be invited to join them. As a lover of words, nothing tickles me more than seeing words that used to have a life and do no l…
 Broadway needs to figure out YA. Wouldn’t it be great if a new musical connected to that hopeful, younger you inside (without pandering)? The above was a tweet that I saw recently …
I do love the Internet at time. I love it for the speed with which you can find something. The flip side of course is when you don’t know exactly what you’re looking for it can b…
Over on Buzz Feed they have pictures of Happy Objects. Not, you know, objects with a cheery disposition, but that have happy faces somehow in them. They can’t help it, they look really…
I’m working on a new play in a different way this month. Â It’s going to be from the ground up with a class. When we had the first meeting a student raised their hand and asked…
Last week I received some wonderful pictures from the Otto Middle School production of Tick Talk. I love the way they’ve colour blocked the different stories in the play and I really l…
"I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be enga…
Who are the artists in your field that you love?  If you’re a playwright, what plays do you love?  Why do you love them? Do your loves change over time? Knowing who you love a…
Owensboro High School put together a video following their road to winning Best Play (with our very own Among Friends and Clutter) at the Southeastern Theatre Conference. What impresse…
In the Theatrefolk podcast this week I talked about celebrating the competition and got off on a little side tangent about what it must be like for athletes who not only must compete …
The Guardian has compiled five of “the best video talks on theatre” and wanted to share them with you as well. The article asks the question: “How can the performing …
It’s a common question – How do I be creative? Where do I find creativity? What does being creative mean? Many people think they can’t write because they’re not creat…
This interactive version of van Gogh’s Starry Night by animator Petros Vrellis is so engaging. When I watch it, I feel like I’m been drawn into the picture, into the swirls of th…
I taught week-long playwriting workshop at a school last month and at the end one of the teachers asked if I wanted the students to fill out a feedback form. The end of an intense week is no…
I want to give a big shout out to Owensboro High School and the Rose Curtain Players. Not only did they win first place at the Southeastern Theatre Conference with my play Among Fri…
I was teaching at a school and they had a number of production posters on the wall from various Shakespeare plays.  I was intrigued by these two completely different posters for Kin…
I get overwhelmed by the Big Picture all the time. The play I’m working on. Â And the other play I’m working on. And the other play i’m working on. And I need to research…
This post by Matt Debenham talks about when it comes to character writing, characters must be everything. He’s writing about how to do that from a fiction perspective but his sugges…
Location, location, location, a scene can totally be driven by where it’s set. To that end, write a scene between two characters that use the following pictures as location inspiration.
Something that comes up time and time again in reference to what artists produce is the criteria against which our work should be evaluated. Meaning, if the work doesn’t meet a cert…
Is there a play or a musical you would see repeatedly?  This New York Times post features a woman who has seen the Broadway musical Once 95 times. And that’s not the only show…
This article gives a list of words that have no English equivalent.  The reason for that is that they don’t translate into one word, they mean sentences or phrases. For examp…
I’m going to England in May. Among a list of things I am excited to do, seeing a Shakespeare play by the RSC is near the top. (with our fingers crossed and some well planned travel we&…
Craig and I were recently in New York and one night we ended up at the Comedy Cellar. It was on our list, mostly I think because of Louie CK’s show and also because we had had a pre…
