The Impact of Others by Itn Playwright

To a great extent all of us are reflections of the impact others have had on our lives. Praise, encouragement and love generate positive self-esteem while disrespect, disparagement and loath…

Announcing Plays and Playwrights 2017 by Martin Denton

It’s time for our other annual announcement on Indie Theater Now (following last week’s announcement of the 12 most popular plays of the year)! Yes, it’s time to share m…

The Times They Were A-changin by Itn Playwright

From the moment they conceive, most parents have hopes and dreams for their children and are anxious to provide the discipline and encouragement they need to grow from helpless infants into …

The play is a tool for conversation " our job is to develop the tool. by Padraic Lillis

Hi, We are beginning the Barnstorming Project in earnest. There’s been a design meeting. There have been rewrites. Auditions are next week. I’m excited for the conversation to be…

ITN's Best Sellers by Martin Denton

As we head toward the end of 2016, I am happy to announce the most popular plays on Indie Theater Now during the past 12 months. It’s a grand, eclectic list — with several repeat…

Trust Is A Must by Itn Playwright

It seems to me that mutual trust is the fundamental basis for any relationship. When it starts to fray, the relationship inevitably falters.

nytheater technologies by Martin Denton

One of the major challenges we’re facing in pulling together 20 years of content for the nytheater indie archive is the fact that the technology we’ve used to build our websites …

The play starts when… by Padraic Lillis

Hi, There is a great story, from Peter Brook in his book The Shifting Point, about how theater was started: “God took a piece of paper, scribbled on it, put it into a box and gave it t…

Trust Is A Must by Itn Playwright

This Town Hall will not be televised. by Micheline Auger

The Revolution will not be televised.” – Gil Scott Heron It’s 7:43 on a Sunday morning and I’m in a Hampton’s Inn hotel room in Pensacola Florida. Last night wa…

What About Indie Theater Now? by Martin Denton

How the NYTE online ecosystem, which has always been dedicated to the proposition that it should be EASY and CONVENIENT to find and explore great American indie theater, will get that much m…

A relay that's track goes deeper by Padraic Lillis

Hi, I am growing to appreciate the College Collaboration Project more and more every day. There are so many pieces to it that are wonderful. The play develops The dialogue on the theme The p…

Taming the Maze of Reviews by Martin Denton

Our new search resource (look at the prototype) is the engine for the nytheater indie archive project. But the real meat of the project will be the components of the archive that…

Nothing's Lost Forever by Martin Denton

Today we launch the nytheater indie archive community project. I've built a prototype of the search resource that is the engine of our archive and I want everybody to see it now.

The Value of seeing the play in production " SUNY Brockport by Padraic Lillis

Hi, Went to SUNY Brockport this weekend and saw the first production of Your Wings Have Eyes. The production was fantastic. The narrative of the play seems simple. There is a party and then …

Proud of our work by Padraic Lillis

Hi, I’m depressed by the results of the election. It made me think that we went backwards and shrunk as a nation. The candidate that won, and will be our President, was not inclusiv…

Barn Storming Project of Day Three " what a great conversation! by Padraic Lillis

Hi, Day two was great. Christopher was inspired by the discussion and brought in 21 rewritten pages for the script. One move was to put the narrative of the ghost story right at the top. It …

Barnstorming Project-Day One! by Padraic Lillis

Hi, The Farm Theater in partnership with Maryland Association of Community Colleges Performing Arts Collective (MACCPAC) made up of Carroll, Howard, Prince George Community Colleges. The Far…

The nytheatre indie archive project on Facebook by Martin Denton

The nytheatre indie archive project has a big presence on Facebook! If you haven’t liked it yet, I hope you will do that soon! The Facebook page for our project is really important for…

The Archive NYC Indie Theater Deserves by Martin Denton

Today we officially announce the nytheatre indie archive project.

The role of the By-Stander by Padraic Lillis

Hi, Over a four week period Micheline will have seen a reading at a major regional theater, two days of rehearsals at UWF, at SUNY Brockport, and then she will see the performances of bot…

A Reading at Geva Theatre " Elevating the game for all involved by Padraic Lillis

Hi, When I first started the Farm Theater, the name inspired by the ‘farm’ system of baseball whose mission is to cultivate early career artists, someone asked me who was my R…

Using ITN with Students " by Lynda Crawford by Martin Denton

Indie Theater Now is a rich resource for teaching playwriting. One way that we use it in the playwriting lab at SUNY/Empire State College is by having students view plays by Indie Theater No…

THE POSITIVE RESULTS OF NEGATIVE ATTENTION by Itn Playwright

No matter how much life-styles change, the human emotions of family dynamics seem to fundamentally remain the same.

NYC Theater Archives by Martin Denton

This week we are retiring two of NYTE’s elder websites – nytheatre.com and nytheaternow.com. We’re giving them each gold watches and thanking them for years of service. We&…