71 stories from blog.indietheaternow.com
First Steps Day one. We get to class, UWF's black box theatre, and sit down " circled up, of course. This isn't just any class: This is the Farm Project, and the end goal can't be achieved i…
Indie Theater Now has its roots in NYTE Small Press, the publishing arm of our parent nonprofit that began in 2000. Back then, the only way to get a play script out into the world was to put…
Hi, Micheline’s play, Your Wings Have Eyes, in rehearsal at both SUNY Brockport and University of West Florida. Brockport is rehearsing the play for production in early November and UW…
The idea for my play "In the Valley of the Sun" came from a combination of two different influences. The first was a reading of "Nine Nations of North America," a 1981 book by Joel Garreau w…
By 1999, actor Richard Glover had been in several of my plays and had become a friend. He lamented that he, like many actors, had gaps between gigs. I suggested I write a solo play for him t…
The Dale Wasserman was my friend and mentor. Although he died in 2008 at age 94, he still influences my writing. He gladly read everything I wrote, and gave me concise constructive critiques…
Many of you know that before we brought Indie Theater Now to the digital universe we used to publish an annual anthology of new indie plays called the PLAYS AND PLAYWRIGHTS series. We actual…
There’s a new collection of plays on ITN curated by Padraic Lillis. Yes, he’s that all around Indie guy: — director, playwright, teacher, solo performer, award winner and f…
Kevin Augustine is best known as a master puppet theater creator: if you've ever seen his work, you have experienced a form of 3-D animation that's literally breathtaking.
By Mark Rigney, playwright: Conventional wisdom still insists that the only thing harder than getting a play produced is getting it produced a second time. In the case of Bears, the first tw…
I have this play, Liner Notes. I wrote the first draft when I was 24.
I moved from Boston to Arizona in 1994 and was immediately enchanted by the state's majestic vistas and diverse cultures. In many ways, it is still very much the wild west.
We’ve just added a new play anthology on Indie Theater Now: the Rising Sun Performance Company 15th Anniversary Collection. It’s a celebration of the work and legacy of one of NY…
Little Black Dress INK (LBDI) produces an annual short play contest for female playwrights, and we are thrilled that two of our past winning line-ups are available on Indie Theater Now! With…
 Most of your plays seem to be set in the netherworld (or at least a world outside our own). Why this choice? How does this drive the characters/action of the play? Fantastical wo…
Indie Theater Now has just published a new collection of plays from a distinguished playwriting program in NYC. Here’s Lynda Crawford, one of the faculty advisors, to tell folks about …
By Donna Hoke: Anyone who follows my blog or reads my posts on the Official Playwrights of Facebook knows that I'm a huge advocate of ten-minute plays as a means to building career and makin…
By Cecilia Copeland: Over the past six years "Madness" has traveled all over New York City creating a home for emerging artists wherever we landed.
I first got to know Kevin Doyle about a dozen years ago when I saw his play Styrofoam at Feed the Herd’s Stampede Festival. Styrofoam is a sharp satire of consumer culture — very…
Last winter Buran Theatre launched the inaugural CartHorse Fellowship to usher in our decade-long collective work in creating and producing new, unwieldy, genre & gender-bending works fo…
A play is created with images. An empty baby carriage abandoned by a park bench. A rap song and two girls in Catholic school uniforms dancing by themselves by Belvedere Castle. A man in his …
