296 stories by "Tim"
'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 …
Change for all shows: -3.88% Number of shows that increased over previous week: 7 Number of shows that decreased from previous week: 17 Biggest increase: JERUSALEM ($126,301) Biggest decline…
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…
Want to see my latest full-length play’s world premiere and final performance — all in the same night? Tomorrow night, The Un-Scripted Theater Company will do a cold reading of t…
From an article in the Huffington Post by Carey Perloff: In response to the burgeoning interest in revitalizing the Mid-Market section of San Francisco, and out of a desire to showcase the p…
I don’t know when I became such a big fan of Philip Levine. Possibly when I came across his Paris Review interview: One of the aspects of my own poetry I like best is the presence of p…
Then there is Ms. Paulus's condescension toward the audience. She says, "I'm sorry, but to ask an audience these days to invest three hours in a show requires your heroine be an understandab…
Did you know that the Theatre Bay Area newsfeed — the list of short items that usually appear in the front of the magazine — is now online? Well, it is, right here. It’s wh…
Don Hall has a nice long post about just how ridiculously expensive it is for small companies to mount a show. But it’s not about complaining; instead, it’s about highlighting so…
Over on HowlRound, John Olive has some suggestions on how to make Theater For Young Audiences as interesting and relevant as video games: Make Plays Darker Make Plays Subversive Make Plays H…
Bay Area playwright and all-around awesome guy Octavio Solis is interviewed on Adam Szymkowicz’s blog. It’s interview #372, by the way. That’s a lot of playwrights. From th…
1. HOW TO SUCCEED names a replacement for Daniel Radcliffe Actors. The producers of the Daniel Radcliffe-fueled smash revival of HOW TO SUCCEED have announced a replacement for Radcliffe:…
Twelve London theaters (or, I suppose, theatres) have come together to create a site where you can search for shows based on keywords like “funny” or “mind-bending” o…
Brian Polak writes about live tweeting during theater performances on the Boston Court blog: The point of live theatre is to experience theatre LIVE. Every single person involved in the crea…
