71 stories from blog.indietheaternow.com
Dear Friends and Colleagues, Today I have an important announcement about Indie Theater Now. Indie Theater Now will cease operations on September 26, 2017. On Monday, September 4, 2017, …
E. E. Wade is a playwright and performer based in Los Angeles. She's currently in residence with The Gnome Haus, an independent theatre company who performers at the historic 13th Street Rep…
Hi, The Farm Theater spent the last three days workshopping Jan Rosenberg’s play Never Have I Ever for the College Collaboration Project. Around the table was Jan, eight very talented …
Hi, The moment that the first draft of a commissioned play arrives is as thrilling as it is nervous making. Especially a play that it is going to be produced multiple times by our partner sc…
Hi, If you work in Indie Theater you have two days remaining to see Martin Denton, Martin Denton. It is a must for those of us who work in Indie Theater. It is as much a tribute to two vital…
Chris Harcum is writing a play about me called Martin Denton, Martin Denton. So it seems only fair and fitting that I should write a blog post about him called Chris Harcum, Chris Harcum. Ch…
These past few months have been exceeding strange for me. Since the end of 2016, I have essentially been re-living the last 20 years of my life.
Hi, We are entering into our fourth commission of the College Collaboration Project. I have made a commitment to commission female writers for the first five years. I was inspired to do t…
Announcing a new play about yours truly, coming to the Kraine Theatre in July.
Hey, Last week Morgan and I went to see In The Cotton at Prince George Community College in Maryland. The script was tight. The production had a response from John Gresh of Kennedy Center Am…
I'm Rachel Kent and I'm currently a Junior at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. This year, for the second time in my college career, I've had the opp ortunity to work on a brand new piec…
Debra J’Anthony, the executive director of the Academy of Music Theatre in Northampton, Massachusetts, has just sent me a press release about an upcoming production of Carol Carpenter&…
Hi, “The only thing I care about in the first production is that the stage is covered with cotton balls.” – Morgan McGuire, Playwright – Tanner and the cotton. The ev…
Hi, Last night I saw Morgan’s play Tanner and the Cotton at Carroll Community College. Because this play was started later than the others it did not have the benefit of a three day wo…
Sean Chandler, whose play At The Flash is on Indie Theater Now, has just launched a new podcast series about independent/fringe theater. It’s called Your Program is Your Ticket, and yo…
Hi, I am grateful for the trust of the schools in the upcoming College Collaboration Project with MACPACC (Carroll, Prince George, and Howard Community Colleges). Next week I’m going d…
Hi, The play at Centre College opened on Friday and closed on Saturday. Both performances were fantastic. Both post show discussions were thoughtful and rich. As I’ve written about man…
Hi, At Centre College seeing the third production of Micheline’s play #Love95times. (She just added the hashtag…and changed the title completely between production two and three.…
From Playwright Dan Fingerman: When we offered R. Scott Williams the role of Uncle Ira, he said that it would be a change "doing a play where the author isn't dead." I was a little unsure ho…
Today my sad duty is to report that one of the members of that family has passed away. Marc Spitz, whose play Shyness Is Nice is in Plays and Playwrights 2002, died last week at the much-too…
Folks, with pride and excitement I announce today that the nytheater indie archive launches today. It’s online and live RIGHT NOW, at the old familiar address for indie theater in NYC …
I thought it might be interesting to look back over the past 12 months and take note of some of the new stuff I learned this year.
You can't have lived very long before you start getting tested by life and introduced to the concepts of loss and longing. In part, it's what life is about, what gives life meaning. To a chi…
So: 2017. A milestone, because nytheatre.com was born 20 years ago (in February 1997).
This item is from the United Solo Festival The 8th annual United Solo Festival invites local and international artists to submit their shows to the world's largest solo theatre festiva…
