16 stories from Drama, Daily
My theatre company, Thinking Cap Theatre, recently finished a site-specific run of Young Jean Lee’s play, CHURCH, a play about exactly what the title suggests: sermonizing, sinning, su…
When you last went to see a show, why did you go? Filed under: Life of Drama Tagged: Audience, theatre attendance
My Fort Lauderdale-based theatre company, Thinking Cap Theatre, is currently midway through a four week run of the Florida premiere of Cleansed by Sarah Kane. Â During post-show conversati…
Last week my theatre company, Thinking Cap Theatre, opened DEATH FOR SYDNEY BLACK, a world premiere dark comedy by NYC-based playwright, Leah Nanako Winkler. The play, both reminiscent of a…
On the Guardian theatre blog today, Lynn Gardner revisits the perennial topic of theatre and criticism. Her post’s title sums it up: theatre and critics need each other. Her post was i…
Influences on playwrights and theatre practitioners run the gamut. Everyday life experiences are an obvious influence. Â History, another. Â Politics, psychology, religion, science, too.…
My director-to-director interview series over at 2AMt continues. Meet three fantastic American women directors: Melissa Hillman of Impact Theatre, Berkeley, CA. Kate Powers, freelance di…
Here are links to several of my recent 2amtheatre director-to-director interviews: Meet Kevin Houle, Rebecca Zellar, Tony Adams and Melissa Hillman. Filed under: Life of Drama Tagg…
Here’s the next installment of my director-to-director interview series on http://2amtheatre.com Back To Brook: I’m also 2/3 of the way through re-reading Peter Brook’s 196…
The director-to-director interview series that I began last week on 2amt continues with Mark Fossen, a freelance director in Salt Lake City, UT. Check it out. The current production of The T…
Posting on Drama, Daily has been all too light lately, but my theatre-related work has been anything but that! In this post, I draw your attention to two links: A director-to-director interv…
Don’t miss Thinking Cap’s remount of S/HE by Nick Mwaluko this coming Sunday, February 27th, 5pm at The Pride Center in Fort Lauderdale (2040 N. Dixie Hwy, Wilton Manors, FL 3330…
The post below is cross-posted at 2am Theatre. You're in the profession, but are you a 'professional'? I like to read mission statements. In particular, I find it interesting to compare …
As writing and other deadlines loom, I find myself all too easily distracted today. Â With a 2AMt post to finish, a review to write, youth drama workshop planning to further flesh out, a p…
Warning: Spoiler Alert This is not a post about reviews per se, but about when we read them–that is before or after the event. Â Today I had a very pure movie experience. Â I saw B…
Youth and death are two words we never want to see joined together, but all too often they are, evoking terms we commonly associate with art–dramatic, tragic. The shooting death of 9-y…
