I Blues by Italy’s MatèTeatro is presented as part of The Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival. Watch the performance live on #NEWPLAY TV on Saturday, Septembe…
Shortly after my play The Children premiered this past spring at The Theatre @ Boston Court, an incredible thing happened: I got a job copywriting. Thirty hours a week. A permanent writing g…
The following is re-posted from David Lan, Artistic Director at London’s Young Vic regarding supporting the case of David Cecil. Read more about this case here and here. As you may …
It's fall and I'm reading plays. I know it's fall because the silly pirate hoodie is out. I like to sit on the couch on crisp fall days with the hoodie hood up, football muted in the backgro…
We are local, national, and global communities and networks of people doing similar work. What do we share amongst ourselves at every level? And how can we do this better? What are the value…
Recently a short, sharp, shock of a Twitter exchange broke out over this video of music educator Eric Booth drawing a distinction between art and entertainment. Here is the snippet at issue,…
Though we’ve been a bit quiet here at NYTCriticWatch, we are working through our many responses to understand the patterns. If you haven’t yet taken the survey, we’d …
Here’s video and social media experiment that we’re dying to test out on you. For the best results, have your smartphone fired up with a free QR code scanning app on Android o…
For the past eighteen years, PlayGround has been working to promote and support the San Francisco Bay Area’s best new playwrights through a unique collection of new play incubator prog…
Today I talk with Jeni Mahoney about the Seven Devils Playwrights Conference in McCall, Idaho where she is the Artistic Director. If this group is new to you, take a look at their New Play M…
Our Toes Grip the Edge: Where Prophecy Meets the Abyss Presented by Mugwumpin, Theatre of Yugen, and hosted by Z Space (San Francisco, USA). Livestreaming on #NEWPLAY TV on Tuesday, Se…
I've been wondering about us… About artists. And artist institutions. Not only as creators of or sites for creating products, but as entire organisms that participate in the making and rem…
Join us for a discussion between two exciting and prolific writers"Moisés Kaufman (Gross Indecency, The Laramie Project) and Rajiv Joseph, author of the Pulitzer-finalist Bengal Tiger at th…
Before my sophomore year in college even began, I was already aware of my destiny for the summer after: an internship. There was no way to wheedle out of the prospect; it seemed as if every …
What problems could we solve if we had a billion little magical instruments that could locate useful things and ideas that other people could make use of and benefit from, and then be able c…
We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not that men in high places lie, only that they do so with su…
Write Out Front is an installation of seventy-six award-winning and up-and-coming (so much sexier than "emerging") playwrights writing new plays in the window of the Drama Book Shop in New Y…
This essay follows a previous one, entitled Dialogue and the Age of Industrial Storytelling (Or, A Defense of the Theater). It is less a continuation of its predecessor than a response to it…
Join us every Thursday at 18:00 GMT / 7pm BST / 2pm EDT / 1pm CDT / 11am PDT for the Weekly Howl, an open discussion about theater culture and contemporary performance that happens on Twi…
A provocation. A proposal. And a plea. The provocation: What would happen if we were to think of new translations of plays, both classical and contemporary, into English the same way that we…
The American theater landscape now, whether seen from an aerial view or at street level, reveals a rapid process of shifting and re-imagining"in seismic proportions, it seems, of late. Thank…
“So, you're having a pretty intense weekend.” We received some version of that comment"separately and together"several times during the course of the Network of Ensemble Theater'…
The following is in response to Andy Horowitz's excellent essay on Culturebot. Dear Andy, Very exciting to read your thoughtful and expansive exploration of cross-disciplinary social practic…
I have been in show business for over twenty years. Because I'm not rich and/or famous, that true statement should be accompanied with a stinky cigarette and a cynical, weathered demeanor. B…
And just like that, it's done. After three months, and twelve plays covering a wide swath of topics in diverse styles across four states, The Here & Now Project for the summer of 2012 ha…