It is a truism that all theater is collaborative; the community aspect is a huge reason why so many of us do it. But I often find myself facing the reality that a large segment of the instit…
My typical night of insomnia begins, perhaps paradoxically, in sleep. I lie down at what feels like an appropriate time and drift off easily, but for some reason that no manner of science or…
Sometimes even the American theater gets it right"as it did with August Wilson. Sometimes our community, our industry, overcomes its cowardice, its aversion to the new and unknown, its love …
Can playwrights and producers of theater for young audiences (TYA) learn anything from video games?
Can playwrights and producers of theater for young audiences (TYA) learn anything from video games? Video games began reaching wide audiences in the mid 1980s, first as arcade entertainments…
Currently I'm working on American Revolutions: the United States History Cycle at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival"a ten-year program during which we are commissioning thirty-seven project…
The cliché goes that one must suffer for their art and, try as one might to bracket this observation as stereotype, it seems the creative process is fraught with emotional pain. As artists,…
I have a theory about the social geekiness of theater artists. I think we act like working in the not-for-profit theater is simply an extension of the rehearsal room. We go to work like we'r…
The theater needs to take you some place and give you an experience, an emotional experience that hopefully is also not mind numbing, but mind stimulating. It doesn't mean it has to be intel…
About five years ago at an LMDA conference held in the Twin Cities, each conference member was, in a sentence, tasked to throw out into the room their "hot button" issue about the field-at-l…
Why is it that we who wish to write this next wave of American theatrical masterpieces, are so desperate to get into grad school that we'll cough up hundreds of dollars in application fees, …
Make it quick. Please. Let's skip the intermission tonight. Shorten this performance if only by a single, dropped line. Let something unexpected happpen. Enter a character to remind me of so…
Jason Loewith Bio Page Margot: This might be a provocative question, but tell me why the American theater is still so New York-centric? Jason: Yes, that does provoke me, because I thi…
If so much about theater in the U.S."including institutional missions and the processes by which we generate work"is antithetical to capitalism, why do so many theater artists and administra…