296 stories by "Tim"
The Amazon Effect An exhaustive and fascinating article by Steve Wasserman in The Nation about the history and the future of Amazon. Any book fan should have a read: Jeff Bezos got what he w…
Not Lost: Under the Influence The latest response to Carey Perloff’s Huntington Post article is by Rob Melrose: Here is our dirty little secret: here in the US, Cutting Ball is an expe…
MFA vs. NYC: America now has two distinct literary cultures. Which one will last? As long as we’re on the subject of “the Steady State” of theater, how about a look at the …
Steady State One of the best theater bloggers out there, 99Seats, is back! And he raises a provocative question: What if the new movement in theatre is here, it’s now established and t…
The Split End Lily Janiak, a theater critic for SF Weekly, has a wonderfully transparent blog post about the struggle to cover all the many plays in the Bay Area: I guess what I’m writ…
‘I Was There’: On Kurt Vonnegut William Deresiewicz, in the Nation, re-reads and re-evaluates Vonnegut’s novels: “The cruelest thing you can do to Kerouac,” Han…
Carey Perloff, the Artistic Director of A.C.T., recently posted on Huffington Post suggesting that training programs emphasize new works at the expense of classical work: We have all but aba…
As legendary performer Des O'Connor joins the cast this week, we’re offering the chance to win the ultimate Wizard of Oz experience. This fabulous prize includes: 2 stall tickets to th…
When I write about an upcoming event, I try to keep it focused on things that somehow involve me, in order to maintain the proper amount of narcissism for this thing to legally be called a b…
Theatre Requires Hope Beyond Logic Paul Mullin: Nobody in the last fifty years has gone to live theatre to kill time like they would slip into a cineplex. Nobody has sat and blankly watched …
Cabaret is one of the most popular musicals of the 20th century. Set against the rise of the Nazi party in the late 1930's, it follows American writer Cliff Bradshaw who has recently come to…
Interview with Lisa Steindler by Jamie Gahlon An interview on HowlRound with the A.D. of Z Space.
My newest play is going to be part of San Francisco Theater Pub’s awesome festival-in-a-bar. As artistic director Julia Heitner said: We have 10 new plays by 10 fantastic local playwri…
If Theatre Isn't Dead, Let Me Kill It Not quite sure what Sabotage Times is, but the pull quote is certainly intriguing: I have come to the conclusion after a lifetime of acting and writing …
The most successful jukebox musical of all time, Mamma Mia! owes much of its success to the tunes of ABBA. Â With more than a dozen of their singles reaching the top of the charts around t…
Lots of Guys, Not Enough Dolls While Tonys are equally bestowed on male and female stars of the stage, there’s a colossal gender gap in the honors given to the men and women who create…
Make friends with other playwrights. They are, after all, the best sort of people, as they like to be alone, and they also like to be with other people, so they understand one's predilection…
An illustration by Grant Snider, a fabulous cartoonist:
Stage Directions and the 17% Andie Arthur on 2AMt: As a female playwright, the odds are already against me getting produced. They're even worse in Miami, which has a hyper-masculine theatre …
It was over five years ago that Wicked took up residency at the Apollo Victoria Theatre, and it has been a West End fixture ever since. We thought we'd check in to see what the original West…
New Play Festivals: The Blog Salon Laura Brueckner is curating a salon series on the Theatre Bay Area blog. First up, Jessica Holt from the Bay One Acts Festival: We talk about value a lot i…
I spent most of April traveling around. First was Oregon, where I saw a play in Ashland, saw Meiko in Portland, drove down the Oregon Coast, slept in a lighthouse, saw a lot of trees and wat…
Three to See at the Bay One Acts Festival BOA gets some love in the SF Weekly.
We Will Rock You is something of an anomaly in the West End. Derided by critics upon its premiere in 2002, the Queen musical has defied the odds and will celebrate 10 years in May. Whilst ot…
On Receiving "Notes" Nicholas Kazan on the horrible script notes that almost led to us not having “Death of a Salesman”: This harrowing story is the most instructive one I've eve…
