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Seattle
by Dennis Schebetta
“We struggle for so long to be validated, waiting for that producer to put up our play for us. But the truth is… people in this business are not always right!”
La’Chris Jordan has maintained this perspective and sense of humor throughout her career. Not just a talented playwright (named one of the “50 [More...]
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San Francisco
By Scott McMorrow
Laurence Olivier once said, “In film, there is no performance. You just shoot a lot of rehearsals and pick the best.” For those of us writing for the boards, it’s not always about performance, either. It’s about the process. How we get from page to stage, and everything that happens in between. Something [More...]
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Portland
By Steve Patterson
Music courses through the works of playwright William S. Gregory. Not that his plays are musicals, though they have frequently incorporated music. Rather, Gregory fuses the musicality of language with a passion for history, verse, and the eternal comedy (and tragedy) of human manners to shape a charming, erudite, and wholly unique voice [More...]
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Pittsburgh
By Jozef Spychala
The Three Rivers Arts Festival, now celebrating its 50th anniversary, presents Pittsburgh PlayWorks’ (PPW) Play Development Lab series, featuring staged readings of original plays by award-winning and emerging playwrights. From June 7th through June 14th, 2009, eight new plays will be read by professional actors, exposing the playwright’s craft and creative process for [More...]
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Miami
By Andie Arthur
Summer is finally here.
In Miami, that signals two things – oppressive humidity that won’t let up until at least October and City Theatre’s Summer Shorts Festival.
Summer Shorts, billed as America’s Short Play Festival, is a festival of 24 short plays divided into three separate performances: the traditional “Signature Shorts,” the raunchy, late-night “Undershorts,” [More...]
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Los Angeles
By Dan Berkowitz
April 26 was Guild Day in LA! At 3:00 PM, in the plush Ahmanson Auditorium at Loyola Marymount University, Chris Huntley of Write Brothers presented a two-hour plus workshop on Movie Magic software for an attentive crowd of Guild members who’d come equipped with their laptops – and lots of questions.
Then, after [More...]
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Houston
By Diana Howie
Ron Jones is a friendly man with a passion for theatre, which he has been pursuing for over 40 years, mostly directing and teaching in the Houston area. My perception was that he directed lots of new work. When I called to speak with him for an article on “what bugs him about [More...]
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Washington D.C.
By Renee Calarco
The results are in, folks.
A few months ago, Rich Amada and I issued an online member survey. Seventy-six of you responded. We were curious about our membership: how many of you have collaborated with other playwrights? Do you write primarily longer plays or shorter plays? How long have you been writing plays?
Well, we [More...]
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Chicago
by Douglas Post
Paul Libman and Dave Hudson are the first creative team to ever win the annual Richard Rodgers Development Award for New Musicals for two separate shows. They are also one of the few teams to win this award without any presence in New York or connections to this city. They did it all [More...]
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