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Thinking about the new play cave → And Cody Daigle follows up on Tony’s post about new play submissions: It's harder to find the small indie companies that are eager to take cha…
Bringing Submissions Out of the Cave → A fantastic article by Tony Adams about new play submissions: The way we read plays is completely out of whack. The prevailing method is to read…
2011 was a pretty good year. In fact, looking back over it all, I kind of can't believe how much I did: My first musical, IN THE PALE EARTHLIGHT (book and lyrics by Tim Bauer, music by Richa…
What script are today’s playwrights following? → Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times theater critic, tries to figure out “why so many who are bursting with bright ideas and…
Confessions of a Serial Intern → Annah Feinberg has a much-commented-upon blog post on HowlRound about the “dark side” of theatrical internships: One of the plays at one o…
Other Theater Apps We Need → After hearing about the Scene Partner app that helps people memorize their lines, Matthew Freeman has come up with some other urgently-needed theater-rela…
Second Wind Theatre’s blog is devoted to “opening up the process of creating theatre,” which means it’s only active when they’re in production: Actors need priv…
Photos courtesy of kevinberne.com First of all, let me just say that I'm so glad this doesn't have to be one of those 'I saw this awesome play but it's sold out and ending soon so you're out…
Issues of Authenticity → My friend Marisela Treviño Orta on the other snafu in the news, a Cuban-set Much Ado About Nothing: What does it mean to authentically engage with another …
Diminishing The 'Hat'? About That Casting Controversy → Stephen Adly Guirgis on the casting of non-Hispanic actors in the roles of Puerto Rican characters in a production of his play:…
In a Dusty Drawer, a Trove of Theatrical Voices → Several hundred audio tapes were just found “in a dusty bottom drawer in a storage room at the Dramatists Guild of America,R…
I wanted to let you know about something that’s quickly becoming a San Francisco indie theater tradition: PianoFight's FORKING II: A Merry FORKING! Christmas by my friend Daniel Heath.…
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…
