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Episode Thirty-Three: Celebrate the Competition Lindsay chats with herself on what it means to celebrate the competition, why it’s important in the arts, and why she thinks finishing i…
It’s a common question – How do I be creative? Where do I find creativity? What does being creative mean? Many people think they can’t write because they’re not creat…
This week’s Movie Monologue Monday is going to look at Jack Nicholoson in Five Easy Pieces. Robert Dupea (Nicholson) has returned home to see his estranged father, who has suffered two…
I wrote about focus last week and got some great advice and feedback through our Facebook page. What I do before every rehearsal and show is some improv game for about 10min then a quick pep…
This interactive version of van Gogh’s Starry Night by animator Petros Vrellis is so engaging. When I watch it, I feel like I’m been drawn into the picture, into the swirls of th…
All right, I did it again. I went too long, came up with too many exercises, and thought up too many questions. For the first time ever, I’m doing a three part newsletter. There is jus…
I taught week-long playwriting workshop at a school last month and at the end one of the teachers asked if I wanted the students to fill out a feedback form. The end of an intense week is no…
Episode Thirty-two: Romeo and Juliet YouTube Fireside Chat Since our February and March… and April newsletters revolve around Romeo and Juliet, we thought it appropriate to do a YouTub…
I want to give a big shout out to Owensboro High School and the Rose Curtain Players. Not only did they win first place at the Southeastern Theatre Conference with my play Among Fri…
This week’s Movie Monologue Monday is going to look at Phoebe Cates in Gremlins. It’s hard to believe that Gremlins, that 80′s-era sorta goofyish/scaryish movie has a monol…
Focus. We need to focus. We hear this all the time in the theatre, a call for focus. What does that mean, exactly? I can’t think of any better example than this performance by gymnast�…
I was teaching at a school and they had a number of production posters on the wall from various Shakespeare plays.  I was intrigued by these two completely different posters for Kin…
We’ve added a new feature to our website that will help you save a few trees. Now when you order a printable PDF or Photocopy License of one of our scripts, you’ll be offered the…
I get overwhelmed by the Big Picture all the time. The play I’m working on. Â And the other play I’m working on. And the other play i’m working on. And I need to research…
Episode Thirty-One: The Weight You Give Them Lindsay talks about the weight we’ve given to offensive words and why people are often more offended by words than actions. Show Notes Cens…
This post by Matt Debenham talks about when it comes to character writing, characters must be everything. He’s writing about how to do that from a fiction perspective but his sugges…
This week’s Movie Monologue Monday is going to look at Robert Blake in In Cold Blood. Based on a real-life events researched by Truman Capote, In Cold Blood details the story of two…
“He didn’t care about the notes. Something’s impending. This is danger. This is ferocious.” Terrance McKnight Interesting quote. But who could McKnight be talking abo…
Location, location, location, a scene can totally be driven by where it’s set. To that end, write a scene between two characters that use the following pictures as location inspiration.
Lindsay and I had a great chat the other night with on the TheatreCast Podcast. Check out the video below. We talked about the origins of our company, how we found our niche, and where we…
Something that comes up time and time again in reference to what artists produce is the criteria against which our work should be evaluated. Meaning, if the work doesn’t meet a cert…
Episode Thirty:Â New York Part Two In part two of Craig and Lindsay’s New York adventure they talk about their favourite theatrical experience " Too Much Light Makes the Baby go Blin…
Is there a play or a musical you would see repeatedly?  This New York Times post features a woman who has seen the Broadway musical Once 95 times. And that’s not the only show…
Here’s an unusual choice for Movie Monologue Monday – Douglas Rain as Hal 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey. It’s unusual because the character is a computer’s voice R…
This article gives a list of words that have no English equivalent.  The reason for that is that they don’t translate into one word, they mean sentences or phrases. For examp…
