Good Criticism Encourages More » My friend (colleague? fellow PlayGround writer? other local tall playwright dude?) Aaron Loeb outlines a fantastic approach to criticism in his article on…
Business Model: The Next Frontier » Scott Walters (The Prof) on The Clyde Fitch Report: I did a search on "innovation" and "theatre." Here is what I found….Three theatre history boo…
3 Myths That Are Killing Literary Culture » By Michelle Richmond on Medium. A good read.
In keeping with my latest trend of being asked to write stuff really, really quickly and then immediately present it to an audience – see last post about the Instant Play that I helped…
Thursday ended up being a really fun night: Can you guess who I was in this description? EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED Artistic Director Loretta Greco and an acclaimed Bay Area playwright are conjur…
Last Sunday, I hosted the latest Portuguese Artists Colony literary event at Hotel Rex. I’ve met and discovered so many interesting and amazing writers and musicians through PAC in the…
“The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the over-examined life can make you feel like there's nothing to live for.” - Marissa Skudlarek
Career Advice for Young Playwrights » A fantastic article by Gwydion Suilebhan, with this advice: If you want to be a playwright, get a second career, too. With the same passion you pursu…
An Interview with Owen Egerton » My friend (and dude I used to do a ton of improv with), the Austin-based writer Owen Egerton, was interviewed on the Read to Write website. In the article…
Wednesday was the first table read of the latest draft of my play Exit Wounds, which is getting a staged reading as part of Magic @ The Costume Shop: “a special residency at A.C.T.'s T…
Taking Charge of Our Own Evolution Over on his blog, Gwydion Suilebhan calls for “a new theatrical ecosystem for the United States”: We need to favor plays more than grant propos…
The Problem with AEA Melissa Hillman, on her Bitter Gertrude blog: In the Bay Area, at least, AEA operates under a fundamental misunderstanding of its own market. Go for the discussion of BA…
How the Portuguese Artists Colony Got Its Name Aisha Sabatini Sloan interviewed Caitlin Myer, the founder of the Portuguese Artists Colony. I’m a member of the group, and I’m oft…
Austin’s Rude Mechanicals in BOMB Magazine Eric Dyer has an interview with the folks from Austin’s Rude Mechanicals in BOMB Magazine, timed to arrive with the Rude Mechs’ &…
What Playwrights Should Know, Part 1 The Artistic Director of Impact Theatre, writing on her newish Bitter Gertrude blog: I don't have the time to do a full post about the submission process…
I Believe: A Theater Manifesto by Taylor Mac Taylor Mac wrote a manifesto for the "From Where I Stand" symposium at the Under the Radar Festival. Some choice excerpts: I believe if NYC had n…
Transient Theater Financial Report 2012 My friend Candice Benge runs Transient Theater, a traveling theater cooperative. Last year, they crowd-sourced funding for a tour across the United St…
More importantly, I received one of my favorite reviews ever, from Stuart Bousel, who created the Stuart Excellence In Bay Area Theater Awards: BEST SHORT PLAY “Play It Again, Friend&#…
Black Box Revolution George Heymont has a huge blog post about the San Francisco black box theatre scene that name checks just about every cool theatre group in the Bay Area: Cutting Ball, E…
George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You'll Read This Year George Saunders’ first short-story collection in six years, Tenth of December, comes out in a couple days, and Joel Love…
"He's such a generous spirit, you'd be embarrassed to behave in a small way around him." - Tobias Woolf on George Saunders
Attention Must Be Paid Isaac Butler is on break from grad school, so he has time to do some blogging about theater. Today on Parabasis, he has a post “about ‘Tweet Seats,’ …
Full Video of Cutting Ball’s Strindberg Cycle Cutting Ball Theater here in San Francisco recently produced a cycle of five Strindberg Chamber Plays. You can now watch video of all five…
playwrightsnotebook: On Space Jenny Connell offers some good exercises from Lisa D’Amour’s workshop at the Flea: Here’s a few things to ponder/questions to ask, either next…
The 3rd annual SF One-Minute Play Festival opens tomorrow, and two of the 70 plays are written by yours truly. It’s a pretty fantastic evening, with new plays coming at you every minut…