296 stories by "Tim"
Actors Theatre names Les Waters artistic director → Les Waters has been named as the new Artistic Director of Actors Theatre of Louisville, and will begin transitioning into the posit…
Ian Walker Interviewed by Adam Szymkowicz → San Francisco…is by some counts the largest community of small theatre companies in the nation, which is something I wish we made a b…
Got plans from 2:30 to 4:00 Pacific time? If not, you can watch a livestream of Hunter Bell, Charles Busch, David Greenspan and Dael Orlandersmith: live, online, today, here. They’ll t…
The 2nd Annual San Francisco One-Minute Play Festival is coming to Thick House in December. Two of the minutes were written by me, and there are about 70 other minutes by 45 or so local play…
I have a very broad definition of theater. For me theater is any sequence of calculated actions presented in real time to a live audience. Venue, content, context, length is irrelev…
The big story today was Michael Kaiser’s post on Huffington Post, which generated lots of response. May I suggest you read these three articles in particular? First up, read the origin…
From “Everything But” by David Loehr on 2AMt: Over the weekend, @NewPlayTV streamed three interesting, presumably unrelated talks. The first was from Steppenwolf's First Look Fes…
In a previous post, I said that “I'll be blogging from Orlando Shakespeare Theater's PlayFest.” What I should have said is “I’ll be way too busy either writing in cof…
I’ll be blogging from Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s PlayFest starting tomorrow. Why? Perhaps this article will offer a clue. For those who don’t want to click: my play Zomb…
I recently finished a big revision of an early play of mine called Beyond Words. Meanwhile, I just saw there was a one-man show in New York called Beyond Words — by a guy named Bill Bo…
From a post by Robert O’Hara on HowlRound: After having been in my writing room by myself for months creating a piece of art, the joy is in allowing the rehearsal room to find the litt…
I've been working on a draft of a new play (part of this Playwrights Foundation class) while prepping for a reading of a whole other play (part of this festival at Orlando Shakespeare Theate…
I just came home from a New York trip, if by "just" you mean "several weeks ago" and then you rewrite the sentence so it works grammatically. I saw some terrific shows, then came home and re…
From a goddamn brilliant article by Mark Jackson on HowlRound: The next day Chloe [Veltman, critic for SF Weekly] ran into Rob Avila, critic for the San Francisco Bay Guardian, who said he'd…
From an article by David Loehr on stage-directions.com: “Free for all." "Membership has its privileges." "All you can eat." Theatres around the country are taking these sayings to hear…
From The Third Quarter by Marissa Skudlarek: "Second-act problems" are a proverbial part of playwriting, but I propose that we could also call them "third-quarter problems." When people say …
From an Interview with Jonathan Moscone by Deborah Cullinan on HowlRound: In art you can actually shape something in a creative way that goes underneath what people think they want or nee…
If you read this blog, then you know about Adam Szymkowicz and his playwright interviews. Because you are Marisela Treviño Orta. Because I can’t imagine anyone else reads this blog.…
From an article by Dominic Orlando on HowlRound, about the founding of The Workhaus Playwrights Collective: We were all invited to a workshop with members of The Royal Court, in town present…
If you look in the sidebar, you’ll see a couple of links to articles on my theater Tumblr, where I post links to theater-related articles. And there you’ll find links to two hot …
 Photo by Cheshire Isaacs Argh! I forgot to mention that I saw Cameron McNary’s Of Dice and Men at Impact Theatre last week, and it’s terrific. Really funny and a fantastic pr…
From an article by Chad Jones on SFGate: Three years ago, documentary filmmaker Austin Forbord set out to create a comprehensive look at the rich theatrical history of post-World War II San …
From an interview of Steve Yockey on Theatre Bay Area, by Lisa Drostova: The Bay Area has been so supportive in a number of ways. Audiences here see a lot of theatre and, as a result, have c…
From an article in SF Weekly: Between 1936 and 1939, the American federal government paid San Francisco theater workers to do what they did best: write plays and put on shows. The San Franci…
From an article on HowlRound by Polly Carl: Small personal moments of yes: HowlRound came about because of a yes. Just over a year ago I was having dinner with David Dower at the TCG Confere…
