296 stories by "Tim"
A Seat at the Table One of my favorite playwrights of all time, Nicky Silver, has a Theater Talkback article in the New York Times: On Monday night, my play "The Lyons" opened at the Cort Th…
As one of Broadway and the West End's most popular shows, it's no surprise that some of its hit songs have made it into the charts. Here are a few of the best recordings from Wicked's best-s…
The Mamma Mia! film retains the tropical Greek-island setting of the stage version, and much of the filming occurred on location. If you're planning a trip to Greece and would like to visit …
Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter share literary legacy Charles McNulty, from the LA Times, has a strong opinion about the precise language of Beckett and Pinter, and why we don’t see more…
Wicked has been dazzling audiences with its stagecraft for over five years. Just how do they do it? Here's a behind-the-scenes look at the magic behind one of the West End's most beloved mus…
And the Winner of the Pulitzer Isn’t Ann Patchett’s article on the lack of a Pulitzer fiction winner includes this nice quote: Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means o…
Clarence Coo Wins Yale Drama Series Award I’m so excited for my friend Clarence! We first met when we were roommates at the Great Plains Theater Conference, and we caught up again when…
Heading East: Artists in Flux From an article in the SF Bay Guardian: San Francisco isn’t an easy place to live for artists and others who choose to fill their souls at the expense of …
Theater’s Audiences Are Mostly Female: Why Not the Roles? Lauren Gunderson writing for The Huffington Post: Women buy 70% of theater tickets sold. Women make up 60%-70% of its audience…
An Essay: On Braided Sorrow My friend Marisela Treviño Orta has written a beautiful essay about the origins of her play Braided Sorrow: As a poet I avoided politics in my poetry. It felt …
How To Write The Great American Novel From an article on The Awl by Jim Behrle: 1. MOVE OUT OF BROOKLYN I know not every novelist in America lives in Brooklyn, it just seems that way. There …
Write Local, Produce Local By Chad Jones on Theatre Bay Area’s website: You don't have to look hard to find champions of new plays in the Bay Area. But you may have to look a little ha…
Mac Wellman: Pushing Boundaries Hayley Finn quotes Mac Wellman in her HowlRound article: "Where playwrights go wrong is writing a generic play. Most of these plays have a sofa from which the…
Book lovers ought to go crazy for this. (Might be funnier if you know it’s a parody of the Kanye/Jay-Z song "N*ggas in Paris,” but I think it stands on its own if you don’t…
Hooray! Last night, I was finally able to attend a Theater Pub event. As you know, I’ve been a huge fan of these folks since I first heard the phrase “theater in a bar.” Bu…
Kurt Vonnegut explains drama (by Derek Sivers on sivers.org)
My Dinner with Vaclav (by Bennett Fisher on Chatterbox)
Hoo boy. I'm only just now crawling out from under this horrible flu-like thing that everyone seems to have. The one whose main symptom seems to be sapping you of all ambition. I caught it r…
Is Goldstar Killing Small Theatre? (by Ian Walker on SecondWindTheatre)
ACT to revive Mid-Market’s old Strand Theatre (by Stephanie M. Lee on SFGate)
I Dare Us: a Manifesto on the 21st Century Literary Office (by Julie Felise Dubiner on HowlRound)
Poetry FAQ By Wendy MacLeod on McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: How do you know what a poem means? You decide what the poem means to you. But you are probably wrong. You are probably mis…
From Submission to Searching: A Paradigm Shift in Connecting Plays and Producers (by Gwydion Suilebhan on HowlRound)
In Case You Missed the Revolution A terrific article by Jason Loewith on “new play theaters”: When a theater invests in the livelihood and artistry of a local writer, it connects…
The Moth Wins MacArthur Award Holy wow! The Moth won a MacArthur Award. From the Foundation’s page, which this linked article links to (not to be meta): Human connection and interactio…
