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Want to see my latest full-length play’s world premiere and final performance — all in the same night? Tomorrow night, The Un-Scripted Theater Company will do a cold reading of t…
From an article in the Huffington Post by Carey Perloff: In response to the burgeoning interest in revitalizing the Mid-Market section of San Francisco, and out of a desire to showcase the p…
I don’t know when I became such a big fan of Philip Levine. Possibly when I came across his Paris Review interview: One of the aspects of my own poetry I like best is the presence of p…
Did you know that the Theatre Bay Area newsfeed — the list of short items that usually appear in the front of the magazine — is now online? Well, it is, right here. It’s wh…
Don Hall has a nice long post about just how ridiculously expensive it is for small companies to mount a show. But it’s not about complaining; instead, it’s about highlighting so…
Over on HowlRound, John Olive has some suggestions on how to make Theater For Young Audiences as interesting and relevant as video games: Make Plays Darker Make Plays Subversive Make Plays H…
Bay Area playwright and all-around awesome guy Octavio Solis is interviewed on Adam Szymkowicz’s blog. It’s interview #372, by the way. That’s a lot of playwrights. From th…
Twelve London theaters (or, I suppose, theatres) have come together to create a site where you can search for shows based on keywords like “funny” or “mind-bending” o…
Brian Polak writes about live tweeting during theater performances on the Boston Court blog: The point of live theatre is to experience theatre LIVE. Every single person involved in the crea…
I’ve been posting links to interesting articles in the sidebar and on a separate Odds & Ends Tumblr, but on the off chance that (a) you didn’t notice or (b) you weren’t…
The New York Times recently wrote about the beauty of watching theater in a pub: "What works in our favor is the intimacy of the experience," said Tim Roseman, who shares the job of artistic…
Last week, I was a lucky recipient of a beautiful book of drama/poetry by Mac Wellman. All six longtime readers of this blog will remember that, a while back, I raved about hearing Mac read …
From a lovely article by Barbara Hammond on HotReview.org that could just as easily be called How to Stay a Playwright: Brush and floss as you’re not going to see a dentist except i…
Oh, I love this McSweeney’s post so much. Written by Jason Guder, it’s an email solicitation from “Mr. Prince Hamlet, rightful heir to the throne of Denmark,” writing…
How cool is this? Zombie Town: A Documentary Play won the 2011 Storer Boone Award for Best Original Play. Wish I could have been at the ceremony in New Orleans, but it was still pretty excit…
In April, the Intiman Theatre in Seattle abruptly canceled its season and laid off its staff. Now Jim Jewell, an arts administrator and playwright in Seattle, has posted an Open Letter…
From an article by Michael Billington in The Guardian: Where would Broadway be without the British taxpayer? I ask because it always strikes me as faintly ironic that the most flagrantly …
This morning at the Dramatists Guild’s first national conference, I was on a panel with @AndieArthur and Roland Tec of Extra Criticum, where we talked about blogs and twitter and tu…
There’s a fantastic Annie Baker interview by Hal Brooks up on HowlRound that presents a dilemma in that I basically want to copy and the paste the whole thing. Some of my favorite quot…
The FURY Factory festival kicked off tonight and runs June 7 – 26 in San Francisco. You can follow along on the FURY Factory Blog or on twitter at #furyfest. From the blog, about the f…
Photo by Joan Marcus Last week, I got a chance to see Anna Deavere Smith in Let Me Down Easy at Berkeley Rep. Here’s the thing: I'm a sucker for actors performing multiple parts in the…
