(Re)Search is a six part series by Bree Windham a current graduate student in dramaturgy. It details her experiences as a young dramaturg navigating different resources and the ways she has …
Playwright Carlos Murillo says that his 2005 play Dark Play, or Stories for Boys , now in a Do It Live! production, takes place "now," but I'd place it more in 1997. The play is steeped in t…
At the Playwright's Festival of new student work in Roanoke, VA last summer, guest responder Robert Ross Parker (Co-artistic Director of Vampire Cowboy Theatre) gave the MFA playwriting stud…
TheatreWorks' New Works Festival in Silicon Valley, CA presents a livestreaming panel discussion with Charles Vincent Burwell, Pulitzer Prize winner Beth Henley, Sharon Kenny, Laura Marks, J…
Unless we get out of the buildings that house our work and change the way that audiences come into contact with us and our work … our audiences will stay the same…, and the work that tho…
Sometimes, the best way to study a theory or philosophy is to implement it and learn from the results. This twelve-part series is the year-long account of one young artist's efforts to start…
Long Distance Affair , a PopUP Theatrics international collaboration between playwrights, directors, and actors worldwide, is a project conceived by Ana Margineanu, developed with Tamilla Wo…
Before The Jungle Book opened at the Goodman Theatre , director Mary Zimmerman gave an interview with Catey Sullivan in Chicago magazine about how she handled the racism in Kipling and Disne…
Long Distance Affair , a PopUP Theatrics international collaboration between playwrights, directors, and actors worldwide, is a project conceived by Ana Margineanu, developed with Tamilla Wo…
This summer I have returned to Edinburgh after a fifteen-year hiatus, to spend two weeks immersed in the theater performances of the fringe festival . I plan to use these dispatches to share…
Long Distance Affair , a PopUP Theatrics international collaboration between playwrights, directors, and actors worldwide, is a project conceived by Ana Margineanu, developed with Tamilla Wo…
I have had the privilege to work on new play development, world premieres, and regional premieres as dramaturg at the Unicorn Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri. The Unicorn Theatre is a proud…
[T]he TEAM's work redefines what is theatrically possible and also provides an entry point to at least imagine a new and progressive future through the virtuosity of an artistic form. Perhap…
Los Angeles is a very naturally post-modern city. There's no center. There's disparate elements jutting up against each other. It's just so jagged and fragmented"even the start stop in the t…
This is part four of a four part blog series on the process behind making I Came to Look for You on Tuesday . Chiori Miyagawa asked me to tea in the spring of 2011. She had an idea for a pla…
Thanksgiving, the simplest and most wonderful of holidays, was complicated at Granny's house. I couldn't quite hang in through the premeal two-hand touch football game (my interest waned aft…
This is part three of a four part blog series on the process behind making I Came to Look for You on Tuesday. Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrecti…
This year's Hollywood Fringe Festival "only the fourth in its history"featured two hundred and twelve separate productions in fifty different spaces for a total of more than one thousand per…
This is part two of a four part blog series on the process behind making I Came to Look for You on Tuesday. In the generative stages of making a play, I imagine that a playwright might host …
You're invited to join Suzan-Lori Parks from the lobby of The Public Theater for Watch Me Work which was livestreamed for the global, peer-produced, open-source HowlRound TV project at howlr…
Livestreaming from New Orleans, Louisiana, slam poet Donnie Welch will be presenting a workshop performance of Leaving Dynamite "a new, original piece of slam poetry/monologue theater explor…
This is part one of a four part blog series on the process behind making I Came to Look for You on Tuesday. Last summer I had a happy reunion with an old friend. Mia Yoo, Artistic Director o…
The Weekly Howl is a peer-produced, open-access discussion about theater culture and contemporary performance that happens in real-time on Twitter using the hashtag #newplay .* For the next …
In March 2003, organizers in fifty-nine countries launched The Lysistrata Project : A Theatrical Act of Dissent. The event, which included 1,029 readings of Aristophanes' famed antiwar comed…
(Re)Search is a six part series by Bree Windham a current graduate student in dramaturgy. It details her experiences as a young dramaturg navigating different resources and the ways she has …