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I’m really excited about this one. Site-specific theater! Oysters! Campfires! Booze! Pretty much everything you need for a great night out. It’s the return of PianoFight’s …
The Broadway Scorecard: Two Decades of Drama Howard Sherman has an impressive study of plays produced on Broadway over the past 20 years: Let me begin with the list of playwrights who have h…
Well if you're so smart Travis Bedard asks some good questions on 2AMt, and then takes a stab at answering them by designing a full theater season based on the following principles: What doe…
He Hit Send: On the Awkward but Necessary Role of Technology in Fiction Allison K. Gibson has an article on The Millions about the problems with technology in modern fiction, inspired by a s…
The Pint-Sized Festival is closed! If you went, you saw a powerhouse of a show and, if you went the same nights I went, you ate some delicious barbecued pork from the Hyde Away Blues BBQ pop…
How about this for a book trailer? My friend Owen Egerton — whose novel “The Book of Harold: The Illegitimate Son of God” is fantastic, by the way — has put together …
Why Procrastination is Good for You Here’s a good tip for playwrights who owe someone a second draft. Simply point out that University of San Diego professor Frank Partnoy, writing in …
Dramatists Guild statement regarding David Adjmi's "3C" From Stephen Schwartz, President of the Guild: We of the Dramatists Guild of America wholeheartedly support playwright David Adjmi who…
“The key to writing — at least, the kind of writing that I do, the kind of personal essays I write — is that the ‘I’ has to become ‘you.’” - A…
My last post invited you to a reading I’m hosting. But suppose you’d like to see something I wrote without necessarily wanting to see me on the stage? Well, you have TWO opportun…
I’ll be hosting the next literary reading from Portuguese Artists Colony on Sunday. Come see readings from novelist Craig Clevenger (The Contortionist’s Handbook, Dermaphoria) an…
13P Theater Collective Set for Its Last Production Shortly after "Melancholy Play" ends its run, so will 13P, which plans to wrap up with an anthology of its plays, an online oral history an…
More and more people in this country no longer make or do anything tangible; if your job wasn't performed by a cat or a boa constrictor in a Richard Scarry book, I'm not sure I believe it's …
Marissa in Theatreland On the SF Theater Pub blog, Marissa Skudlarek makes the case for all theaters having a café — and I heartily agree: It's great when you can get a tasty, reasona…
New Dramatists Class of 2019 Announced Hooray for my old friend Clarence, and for Christina Anderson (who I met through the Magic this year)! And congrats to the others I haven’t met: …
An Honest Theatrical Playbill: McSweeney's Internet Tendency Hilarious! Today's McSweeney's feature (by Daniel Falk) is an "honest" theatrical playbill from …
Lewis Black's new play, 'One Slight Hitch' Lewis Black's new play is being staged after thirty years in development: Nowadays, at sixty-two, Black is the guy with the…
Hell isn’t other people. It’s an evening at the theatre. On a lighter note, here’s Dom Joly in The Independent on the horrible experience of going to the theater. For the s…
Earlier, I posted about Carey Perloff’s article in the Huffington Post and some responses to it on Theatre Bay Area’s Chatterbox. Once again, the final word goes to the brilliant…
The heartening resurgence of the American play By Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times Theater Critic: Playwrights and the producers who love them have been putting up a sneaky defense against…
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…
