Recent Essays

A poem on being the perfect audience.

Dramaturg Margot Melcon interviews Jason Loewith about the new play development sector, and opportunities theatres can take advantage of.

Martin Zimmerman, an American playwright, discusses the use of the word "professional" as used in the theater community, and asks wheather this is indeed the right term to describe having a level of expertise in the theatrical world.

What is the difference between an artistic and scientific process? One may seem unstructured and the other deductive, but playwright Monica Byrne finds they both work the same way.

Reflecting on the 2011 TCG Conference, P. Carl asks “What if we could get over ourselves?” at both the individual and institutional level.

Richard Montoya, of the theater group Culture Clash, delivers his theatrical manifesto; one of outside the lines, in every way.

Responding to the From Scarcity to Abundance Convening, Jim Lasko questions the deeper problems of elitism and relevance theatres face today.

Jonathon Moscone, an American theatre director, examines the question of what purpose do theatres serve, and advocates for the abandoning of fear in governing theatrical choices, and the embracement of unease, so that we can create theatre that takes the real time to listen to the current of our lives.

Theresa Rebeck, playwright, interviews Micheal Ritchie, the Artistic director of the Center Theater Group about the delima between programming a theater season for subscibers and programing a theater to attract new audiences.

Hal Brooks interviews playwright Annie Baker about her recent work and playwriting process.