Recent Essays

Aaron Carter and Erik Ramsey suggest a taxonomy for new play development techniques to serve as a reference for playwrights and developers to avoid the "zombification" of new plays.

Susan Miller speaks on the collision of the playwright's personal and the public, and the beauty found in performing these stories themselves.

"All the hand-wringing about tweeting in the theatre is really nothing more than a distraction from the far more important, positive, and legitimate ways in which Twitter is changing our art form."

Michele Lowe interviews Kent Thompson, Producing Artistic Director of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, about his mission to cultivate lasting relationships between playwrights and audiences.

"I was used to having a play produced every year and I assumed that the next production would come easily. I wasn’t expecting the lull that followed."

Keith Josef Adkins speaks on his experience working to "diversify within our diversity" and provide fresh black narratives to the canon of American theatre.

Thoughts on maintaining a sense of abundance and gratitude as a theatre artist.

Lisa Peschel considers her experience adapting a comedic play written by survivors of the Holocaust and the way in which its humor translates to audiences today.

Dan Wolf discovers the artistic legacy of his ancestors and uses that as inspiration to deepen his own artistic vision.

Jayne Benjulian considers the rightful place of a playwright in the rehearsal room as the executive producer of his or her own work.