I guess it’s time to post about something I’ve been saying for a while: if you write comedies, it’s tough to find homes for them. Yesterday, my colleague, Ken Levine, posted on his blog that post-pandemic, theaters need to program lots of comedies. I agree, but this suggests that theaters have previously not wanted comedies […]
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WHY IS IT SO HARD TO GET ATTENTION FOR COMEDIES? FIVE REASONS
Tags: B Street Theatre, Blackburn prize, Bloomington Playwrights Contest, Christmas 2.0, comedy contest, comedy play contest, comedy plays, finding neil patrick harris, Finstrom Festival, Ken Levine, Kilroys List, McClaren comey contest, National New Play Network, National Playwrights Conference, neil simon, Neil Simon Festival, Next Stage Press, O'Neill Conference, play comedies, Princess Grace award, Reva Shiner, Woodward Newman, Zoetic Stage
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ARTISTS HELPING ARTISTS (#AHAinTheater) ADAM AND AURIN TALK MARKETING—PART 2
Playwrights active online know the names Adam Szymkowicz and Aurin Squire. Not only are they both prolific, productive, and produced playwrights, they’re also the kind who give back. Adam writes the popular I Interview Playwrights blog, and Aurin contributes a monthly Get What You Want list of opportunities on his long-running Six Perfections blog. […]
Tags: Ars Nova, Aurin Squire, Brain Dead, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Finborough Theatre, Freedom Train, Gersh, Laura Marks, Moxie pictures, National New Play Network, New Dramatists, NNPN, Northwestern, Northwestern University, NYC Playwrights, O'Neill Conference, Obama-ology, Playwrights Center, RUNNING ON FIRE, This Is Us
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#PLONY PROFILE #8: CATHERINE TRIESCHMANN, HAYS, KANSAS
When I first started the #PLONY interviews, I had this notion that, after a while, they’d all start to sound the same. But eight interviews in, I’ve been consistently amazed at how very different these stories are. Sure, there are commonalities that led to success (and there will be recap post on those once […]
Tags: Berkeley Rep, BRIDEGROOM OF BLOWING ROCK, Catherine Trieschmann, Colorado New Play Summit, CROOKED, Dan Kois, Gideon Productions, Hot Georgia Sunday, HOW THE WORLD BEGAN, Lloyd Richards, Mac Rogers, O'Neill Conference, PLONY, THE MOST DESERVING, University of Georgia, University of Maryland, WAM Theatre, Women's project, Yale
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