246 stories from direct address
‘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…
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
