Monthly Archives: May 2011

Civic Theater

Posted on May 29, 2011 by Michael Rohd

What do we talk about when we examine what it means to make new theater today? Craft. Career. Community. These are the substance of many conversations we have when we wrestle with what we make, how we make, and how we make a life while making. I propose that these
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I, Dramaturg

Posted on May 26, 2011 by ddower

Dramaturgy is a tool for navigating the progress toward perfection. Like a compass is a tool. And it plays out in myriad ways within a project, an organization, a field, a form.
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Was I Born This Way?

Posted on May 22, 2011 by Polly Carl

I am going to consciously make a creative room for myself in the American theater. Right here. Right now.
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Writing for the Moon (and other adventures in object theater)

Posted on May 19, 2011 by sbockley

Sometimes, and here comes a confession right out of the gate, I write puppet shows. Well, you may say, that’s charming, or so retro, or great for kids! But those aren’t the reasons I love this medium. Puppetry suits me because it’s fundamentally collaborative, and I’m most inspired when authoring
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A Lover’s Guide to American Playwrights

Posted on May 15, 2011 by tlondon

Julie Taymor We have been told of a great fall, a great failure. Here is an American auteur director, the papers announce, making sense of that old phrase, “the daily bugle,” who has over-reached, plummeted from the sky, taking untold performers and investors with her.
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Interview with Marissa Chibas

Posted on May 11, 2011 by djones

I see American theatrical institutions holding on to old notions of who their audiences are and what they want. An aesthetically diverse theater would not only embrace the many cultures and stories reflected in their communities, but also include productions outside of the Anglo-European narrative-driven aesthetic.
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Bad Influences

Posted on May 8, 2011 by msparber

I like when artists, and their art, get people’s dander up. …They expand my own storytelling language, and explode my sense of how I might participate in creating theater—or, for that matter, just making a scene.
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Interview with Hal Brooks

Posted on May 4, 2011 by aszymkowicz

…one of the things that makes somebody a really strong director is the ability to admit when they’re wrong or when they don’t know what’s right.
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Zombies Limping in Circles, or An Argument for a Taxonomy of NPD Technique

Posted on May 1, 2011 by Aaron Carter & Erik Ramsey

The difficulty in determining what went wrong in such situations lies in our collective failure to identify, discuss, and disseminate the wide variety of new play development (NPD) techniques. While increased scrutiny is being brought to bear to on how plays are selected for development and production, that inquiry has stopped at the rehearsal room door.
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