246 stories from direct address
From a goddamn brilliant article by Mark Jackson on HowlRound: The next day Chloe [Veltman, critic for SF Weekly] ran into Rob Avila, critic for the San Francisco Bay Guardian, who said he'd…
From an article by David Loehr on stage-directions.com: “Free for all." "Membership has its privileges." "All you can eat." Theatres around the country are taking these sayings to hear…
From The Third Quarter by Marissa Skudlarek: "Second-act problems" are a proverbial part of playwriting, but I propose that we could also call them "third-quarter problems." When people say …
From an Interview with Jonathan Moscone by Deborah Cullinan on HowlRound: In art you can actually shape something in a creative way that goes underneath what people think they want or nee…
If you read this blog, then you know about Adam Szymkowicz and his playwright interviews. Because you are Marisela Treviño Orta. Because I can’t imagine anyone else reads this blog.…
From an article by Dominic Orlando on HowlRound, about the founding of The Workhaus Playwrights Collective: We were all invited to a workshop with members of The Royal Court, in town present…
If you look in the sidebar, you’ll see a couple of links to articles on my theater Tumblr, where I post links to theater-related articles. And there you’ll find links to two hot …
 Photo by Cheshire Isaacs Argh! I forgot to mention that I saw Cameron McNary’s Of Dice and Men at Impact Theatre last week, and it’s terrific. Really funny and a fantastic pr…
From an article by Chad Jones on SFGate: Three years ago, documentary filmmaker Austin Forbord set out to create a comprehensive look at the rich theatrical history of post-World War II San …
From an interview of Steve Yockey on Theatre Bay Area, by Lisa Drostova: The Bay Area has been so supportive in a number of ways. Audiences here see a lot of theatre and, as a result, have c…
From an article in SF Weekly: Between 1936 and 1939, the American federal government paid San Francisco theater workers to do what they did best: write plays and put on shows. The San Franci…
From an article on HowlRound by Polly Carl: Small personal moments of yes: HowlRound came about because of a yes. Just over a year ago I was having dinner with David Dower at the TCG Confere…
'Theater and the Importance of Being Local' Trisha Mead writing on Oregon ArtsWatch: Recently, Carey Perloff, the artistic director for the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, po…
From an article by Trisha Mead: Recently, Carey Perloff, the artistic director for the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, posting on her Huffington Post blog, posited a new pote…
Thirty-two new plays. Twenty-nine local writers. I was seriously thinking about pitching an idea about Gemini, until I realized I didn’t have any ideas about Gemini. Instead, I am seri…
Over at LA FPI, the Literary Manager of Impact Theatre, Steven Epperson, has a nice long article about lit manager pet peeves. It’s filled with mostly common sense advice, but speaking…
Photo by David Allen Okay, so, I'm biased. First, I'm a sucker for Edward Albee. The rhythms of his dialogue hit my ear just right. I've read everything he's written, and I've seen a bunch o…
Photo courtesy of kevinberne.com A couple days ago, I got the chance to see Rita Moreno at Berkeley Rep. She's performing in a show about her life, starting with her arrival in the U.S. from…
I have discovered a way to get more playwriting done. It involves taking Facebook and Twitter off your phone and only checking them once a day via your computer. Here’s a step-by-step …
I just learned about this from Melissa Hillman’s twitter feed and it’s the highlight of my day so far: there’s a new group that…well, here this is from their About Us…
Sunday was wonderfully fun. I’ve been going to the monthly Portuguese Artists Colony readings for awhile, sometimes as a reader and sometimes as a listener. It has a cool vibe, like a …
My friend, colleague and fellow pub night host (I almost said “beer drinker” but then I remembered she always drinks cider) Marisela Treviño Orta has a post up at 2AMT: Plays …
Lauren Gunderson has a post on 2AM about the rolling premiere of her play Exit, Pursued By A Bear, following its journey from ten pages stuck in a drawer to a rolling premiere by Synchronici…
From “Consider Yourself at Home” by Jean Schiffman on the Theatre Bay Area site: All around the Bay Area, more and more young troupes are structured to encompass a year-round ens…
From “What’s local got to do with it?” on the Crowded Fire Theater blog: To truly build a locavore theater community, companies both large and small must dedicate themselve…
