35 stories by "Kristen Palmer"
The blog is currently silent.But, the pages will be updated.For anything current - please check there.And, if you'd like to recommend a play to read, post it in the comments.All the best to …
things have been busy.click on these things to find out about this amazing Collaboration I have been working on: nytheatre review Brooklyn Rail Article WE PLAY FOR THE GODSand…
Indie Theater Now has been creating an on-line collection of plays, and today LOCAL STORY is live on the site.You can read it for a pittance. Then you can dream of tiny Betsy and learn the …
I have a post up over at the Coyote Commission Project Blog.You should read it.Here.
In case you missed the current issue of The Dramatist - which, I know, you may have, but you would have missed an excerpt of my play. And that would be too bad - so here is the excerpt. T…
That is described quite finely on HowlRound from the Producers Perspective...And through the year will also be described from the directors and the playwrights perspective.We're in the thick…
I'm also posting at the Coyote Commission Blog.Writing about starting writing...click here:http://coyotecommissionprojectblog.blogspot.com/it's a music & reading experience combined.
September 19NYCDramatist Guild Fellows Night of ExcerptsPlaywright's Horizons7pmI'll be presenting a scene from THEN AND NOWfeaturing:Sarah Kate JacksonChris Kipiniakdirected by: Kyle Ancow…
Commissioned and presented by The New World Festival, Inc. in Miami Florida in 1982 and then moved intact to NYC in 1983 Angels Fall is a character driven 2-act play that takes place in an i…
I've been away from this. I've been reading, but mostly unpublished scripts. And I've been writing. And the teaching. That's also been happening. But, happily, I started reading plays ju…
7pm Monday.April 18, 2011.Julia Miles Theatre424 W. 55th StreetN.Y.C.You are invited to attend a reading of:THE HEART IN YOUR CHESTa dystopian romanceWritten byKristen PalmerDirected byJulie…
A play with a long production history, Seascape with Sharks and Dancer was first done at the Theatre Barn at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst in 1974. It went on to productions at…
So, elsewhere on the web there have been assertions that playwrights are disconnected from their communities and the nuts and bolts of theater-making. This may be true in some cases, but no…
I am not a scholar of French Theatre, this might actually be my first reading of a classical French work, so please feel free to fill in my gaps and clarify my misunderstandings. My first q…
Hello all,So I'm re-doing this site to serve as a place to find information about my plays and projects - as well as other people's.I am feeling pretty remedial at this, so please forward an…
Premiered at Steppenwolf then Playwrights Horizons, The Pain and The Itch is a satire of liberal suburbanites so focused on their correctness they don't perceive the rot in their own house.I…
Produced in NYC by Clubbed Thumb in 2003, The Typographer's Dream has three characters who speak directly to the audience (most of the time.) They talk about their jobs.There is a Typograph…
Published in the 2009 New York Theater Review, McLaughlin states in her introduction,Kissing the Floor is the ninth play I've written that is directly inspired by a Greek text, and though it…
The Long Christmas Ride Home was first produced in 2003 in a co-production by The Long Wharf Theater and Trinity Rep, it moved to NYC later in the year.In her introduction Vogel cites a misu…
First produced by Steppenwolf in 2007, then in NYC at Second Stage Theater in 2008, Aguirre-Sacasa's play Good Boys and True is a play that works kindof like a funnel, or more precisely like…
The Dew Point premiered in 2001. It's a 2 act play with 4 scenes in the first act and 6 in the second. 5 characters, three women and two men. In a quick nutshell, Mimi is engaged to Kai, …
Sometimes I assume things. Like my friend Kyle. When first introduced I thought he was a Marine Biologist. Turns out he's a theater director (among other things), but it may have been a y…
Continuing reading Barker today, while waiting for an oil change. A TV blaring a game show. I'd even thought that today wouldn't be a bad day to sit in a waiting room. The Olympics are o…
Continuing a week of Barker, maybe longer...Seven Lears takes as its starting point the wonder about the mother, the queen, Lear's wife. How she is never mentioned in Shakespeare's play and…
I've been reading this play for a week. On and off. I should go back and read it again, to grasp, to wallow in it, to follow the fissures. What I think I will do is forge ahead and read m…
