63 stories by "Martin Denton"
Dear Friends and Colleagues, Today I have an important announcement about Indie Theater Now. Indie Theater Now will cease operations on September 26, 2017. On Monday, September 4, 2017, …
Chris Harcum is writing a play about me called Martin Denton, Martin Denton. So it seems only fair and fitting that I should write a blog post about him called Chris Harcum, Chris Harcum. Ch…
These past few months have been exceeding strange for me. Since the end of 2016, I have essentially been re-living the last 20 years of my life.
Announcing a new play about yours truly, coming to the Kraine Theatre in July.
Debra J’Anthony, the executive director of the Academy of Music Theatre in Northampton, Massachusetts, has just sent me a press release about an upcoming production of Carol Carpenter&…
Sean Chandler, whose play At The Flash is on Indie Theater Now, has just launched a new podcast series about independent/fringe theater. It’s called Your Program is Your Ticket, and yo…
Today my sad duty is to report that one of the members of that family has passed away. Marc Spitz, whose play Shyness Is Nice is in Plays and Playwrights 2002, died last week at the much-too…
Folks, with pride and excitement I announce today that the nytheater indie archive launches today. It’s online and live RIGHT NOW, at the old familiar address for indie theater in NYC …
I thought it might be interesting to look back over the past 12 months and take note of some of the new stuff I learned this year.
So: 2017. A milestone, because nytheatre.com was born 20 years ago (in February 1997).
It’s time for our other annual announcement on Indie Theater Now (following last week’s announcement of the 12 most popular plays of the year)! Yes, it’s time to share m…
As we head toward the end of 2016, I am happy to announce the most popular plays on Indie Theater Now during the past 12 months. It’s a grand, eclectic list — with several repeat…
One of the major challenges we’re facing in pulling together 20 years of content for the nytheater indie archive is the fact that the technology we’ve used to build our websites …
How the NYTE online ecosystem, which has always been dedicated to the proposition that it should be EASY and CONVENIENT to find and explore great American indie theater, will get that much m…
Our new search resource (look at the prototype) is the engine for the nytheater indie archive project. But the real meat of the project will be the components of the archive that…
Today we launch the nytheater indie archive community project. I've built a prototype of the search resource that is the engine of our archive and I want everybody to see it now.
The nytheatre indie archive project has a big presence on Facebook! If you haven’t liked it yet, I hope you will do that soon! The Facebook page for our project is really important for…
Today we officially announce the nytheatre indie archive project.
Indie Theater Now is a rich resource for teaching playwriting. One way that we use it in the playwriting lab at SUNY/Empire State College is by having students view plays by Indie Theater No…
This week we are retiring two of NYTE’s elder websites – nytheatre.com and nytheaternow.com. We’re giving them each gold watches and thanking them for years of service. We&…
Indie Theater Now has its roots in NYTE Small Press, the publishing arm of our parent nonprofit that began in 2000. Back then, the only way to get a play script out into the world was to put…
Many of you know that before we brought Indie Theater Now to the digital universe we used to publish an annual anthology of new indie plays called the PLAYS AND PLAYWRIGHTS series. We actual…
Kevin Augustine is best known as a master puppet theater creator: if you've ever seen his work, you have experienced a form of 3-D animation that's literally breathtaking.
By Mark Rigney, playwright: Conventional wisdom still insists that the only thing harder than getting a play produced is getting it produced a second time. In the case of Bears, the first tw…
We’ve just added a new play anthology on Indie Theater Now: the Rising Sun Performance Company 15th Anniversary Collection. It’s a celebration of the work and legacy of one of NY…
