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The next iteration of the New Play Map is on the way! We have completed the second of four "sprints" with our web developers, Quilted. We want to keep you informed of our progress a…
I've been asked to reflect on The Center for the Theater Commons: why Emerson; why now; what's the level of professional engagement? Before attempting answers to these questions, I want to c…
It is a great pleasure to welcome The Center for the Theater Commons (The Commons) to Emerson College and the Office of the Arts. Through our academic programs, Emerson College is already sh…
This is a work of total subjectivity. I want you to know that from the outset. I also want you to know that I'm not tight with Mike Daisey. I mean, I've met him. He sat behind me on a plane …
As the New Play Institute transitions to Emerson College as the new Center for the Theater Commons, we celebrate the accomplishments of the previous year with our annual report. This report …
People have asked me how I chose my directing "style," and I never know how to answer. How do you even make such a choice? Is there ever a choice to be made? How do you decide one day that y…
On Monday, April 16th Victory Gardens Theater is hosting the One-Minute Play Festival at 7:30pm CST. Playwrights Foundation, Cornerstone Theater Company, University of Evansville, and Primar…
On Wednesday and Thursday April 18 and 19, #NEWPLAY TV will webcast concert readings of the national finalists of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Ten Minute Play Award a…
Today I talk with DC-based playwright Heather McDonald. I have read, seen, and even directed Heather’s beautiful plays for more than twenty years. You can hear how she weaves a story"t…
Taffety Punk is a DC-based theater ensemble committed to igniting “a public passion for theater by making the classical and the contemporary exciting, meaningful, and affordable.…
Jason: What is the Kennedy Center's relationship with DC and the American theater? Gregg: The Kennedy Center proper is the nation's performing arts center, and one of our principal interests…
As I carve out time and brain space to write this post, I am flooded with pride for the artists producing independent theater in DC. There have been many companies that have been "born" thro…
The next iteration of the New Play Map is on the way! We have completed the first of four "sprints" with our software developers, Quilted. We want to keep you informed of our progress as it …
Jamie Gahlon has asked theater artists from around the country to talk about their personal search for an artistic home. Molly Smith continues this series. What makes an artistic home? I hav…
“Dreaming the Americas,” the 6th Annual NoPassport Theatre Conference will stream live on #NEWPLAY TV at newplaytv.info this Saturday and Sunday, April 14 and 15 from the Arizona…
Theater J‘s artistic director Ari Roth (@arirothdc) will be co-hosting the Howl this week on Twitter using the #newplay tag. This week’s conversation will focus on the DC theater…
The Black Women Playwrights' Group is a DC-based service and advocacy group with national reach. Their ongoing national projects include the BWPG Cyber-Narrative Project and 12Tweets@12Noon.…
Here’s a theory that might explain how we in the DC theater community got to this improbable moment; that of being a collective cultural force when, as late as a decade ago, none other…
We didn’t found dog & pony dc to shake up the audience’s experience, but the impulse was lying dormant in the backs of our minds"waiting to be activated like an undercover ag…
Dramatists Guild (U.S.) presents: “Stories from the Trenches”, streaming live on #NEWPLAY TV at newplaytv.info Join Dramatists Guild’s Executive Director of Creative Affair…
This column, published every 4-6 weeks, examines issues of translation as they relate to the field of theater and its intersections with other public and civic sectors. What does the word "e…
On Monday, April 16, 2012, The One-Minute Play Festival (#OMPF) and #NEWPLAY TV join together to launch an experiment we’re calling the Global Watch Party Happening. This simultaneous,…
The #NEWPLAY-AHZ and Jamila Reddy are back with their latest video on collaboration. If you have a video you would like to add just go to newplay.us and find the “submit” button …
I am really grateful to Rajiv for making time to talk to me in the middle of so many different deadlines. We talk about his work on the big musical he's developing, on his role as a writer o…
The Van Lier Fellowship at New Dramatists has launched some exciting voices over its sixty"three years of existence. I talked to the three current fellows about their path to this opportunit…
