Category Archives: Journal

Interview with Lisa Steindler by Jamie Gahlon

Posted on May 16, 2012 by lsteindler

Jamie: What are the technical residencies at Z Space? And what made you start offering them? Lisa: Our technical residencies subsidize artists’ use of our theater, lights, sound system, tech and artistic staff, and our entire facility to develop their concepts and work at a crucial stage in the creative
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City Council Meeting: Theater of Tiny Disjuncture by Aaron Landsman

Posted on May 13, 2012 by alandsman

This is local government filtered through the lens of art. Why is that a good thing? We hope seeing governance as a performance of power, rather than an application of it, can be liberating. No one is pretending to be someone else. You can volunteer to read the words of
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Interview with Yussef el Guindi by Vincent Delaney

Posted on May 9, 2012 by yguindi

Vince: When did you start writing plays in Seattle? Yussef: I began focusing on playwriting when I stopped all thoughts of becoming an actor—and later, a filmmaker (I made a short film in Seattle under a pseudonym). I had been writing continuously for awhile, but really applied myself when all these
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Getting Here by Vincent Delaney

Posted on May 6, 2012 by vdelaney

It was with a healthy dose of trepidation that my wife, young daughter and I moved to Seattle in 2005. Actually it wasn’t a move, but a return: Northwest natives, we’d spent the previous four years breathing the heady air of the Playwrights’ Center, where energized, gracious, and determined writers
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Plays: How to lead post-show discussions for fun and profit by Brant Russell

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Brant Russell

I’ve been leading post-show discussions at Steppenwolf Theatre for five years. When I started, it was a great way to insinuate myself into the Steppenwolf environment, and to try to be a regular presence at the theater. When I was in graduate school, leading discussions was a nice opportunity to
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Dialogue and The Age of Industrial Storytelling (or, A Defense of the Theater) by Ayad Akhtar

Posted on April 29, 2012 by AAkhtar

1 Content. The industry moniker for stories, which are now fed, like fodder shoveled into a voracious human pipeline, disappearing—almost as soon as they are created—into a global tract more esophageal than spiritual, consumed and digested with a ceaseless fury. To put it so is perhaps to appeal to the
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The Art of the Breakup by Christian Parker

Posted on April 25, 2012 by cparker

One of the touchstone points of discussion to emerge in the wake of the publication of Outrageous Fortune: The Life and Times of the New American Play was that of transparency between artists and institutions, and its perceived lack among many playwrights who feel that they are essentially being given
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A Boy in a Man’s Theater by Polly Carl

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Polly Carl

I’ve always said that the American musical hasn’t meant much to me. I don’t really connect to most of those stories told through singing and dancing. Then I saw a workshop performance of the Lisa Kron/Jeanine Tesori musical Fun Home, adapted from Alison Bechdel’s graphic novel. There I was on
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First Loves: A March Night at the Paramount with Peter Brook’s Grand Inquisitor by Taline Voskeritchian

Posted on April 22, 2012 by TVoskeritchian

On a rainy Boston evening, I skipped with a dear, old friend of many decades and several crossings to the Paramount Theater in Boston, battling the puddles to see Peter Brook’s production of The Grand Inquisitor. We were full with food and wine and coffee and chatter, but most of
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The Dream of a Center for the Theater Commons at Emerson College

Posted on April 18, 2012 by ddower-pcarl

Ten years ago we connected in a moment of mutual frustration at a TCG gathering in Portland, Oregon, called New Works, New Ways. We recognized instantly in our feeling on the outside of that conversation, that we had found in the other (stealing a phrase from Rob Orchard) a “close
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