Deseret Morning News (Free subscription) | yesterday
The "lesson" is the lifeblood of Mormonism. And the morality tale is the most engaging way to deliver a lesson. Playwright Eric Samuelsen takes a more avant garde approach to his plays.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Bola Agbaje is urging the prime minister to see her play Gone Too Far! if he wants to understand Britain's young black population
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Julie Marie Myatt lives in Los Angeles. She's been a playwright all her adult life. She writes plays such as "The Sex Habits of American Women" and "August Is a Thin Girl." Her friends are, she says, liberal creative types. By geography and temperament, she would seem to live a life about as far...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
"THIS WEEK, we're on GMT - Glenties Mean Time," joked Joe Mulholland, director of the MacGill summer school yesterday, when the rehearsed reading of Living Quarters ran late.
Cybergrass (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Liberty, NY -- The Liberty Free Theatre will present Kinfolks and Mountain Music, three one-act plays with bluegrass music that follow the coming to maturity of a young boy in the coal country around Hazard, Kentucky. The play will open Thursday, July 24 and play through Sunday, July 27 and the following week Thursday, July31 through Sunday, August 3. Curtain times are 7:30 P.M. Thursdays through Saturdays...
Today's Tribune-Review (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
When playwright John Morogiello's comedy "Stonewall's Bust" takes stage for the first time, he has some high hopes for the outcome.
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Colleen Murphy, Toronto-based author of The December Man, and Vern Thiessen Edmonton-based author of Vimy, are among 26 playwrights nominated for the $100,000 Simonovitch Prize.
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
Keynote event of gathering marked by lyrical homage to author, writes in Glenties
Jezebel (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
Germaine Greer calls a female playwright an "insane reactionary" after she wrote a play loosely based on Greer being held hostage by a teen. • An Alaskan prison is home to America's only all-female... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
PR Leap - Recent News Releases (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
Lee Kessler has been nominated and granted admission by the Daughters of the American Revolution as a Dazzling Daughter of the American Revolution, a very honored and prestigious group of only 121 women in American history. The DAR will be displaying her works as an actress, playwright and author along with approximately half of the Dazzling Daughters.
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
"I am out of step, you see," says the lone character in J.T. Rogers's "Murmuring in a Dead Tongue." "I'm askew."
Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Construction-inspector-turned-playwright Tom Kline did research for his new play, 9 Months, at a Lamaze class.
ATW - Working In The Theatre (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
The panel of theatre professionals - playwright Michael J. Chepiga ("Getting and Spending"), choreographer Graciela Daniele ("Ragtime"), playwright/director Christopher Durang ("Sex and Longing"), director Garry Hynes ("The Beauty Queen of Leenane"), and director Joe Mantello ("Corpus Christi") - discuss how they got their start, auditioning actors, controversy surrounding a play, and taking on alternate...
Inbox Robot: Swiss Reinsurance News (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Judy Dewinter (Myeloma UK chairman), Eric Low (chief executive Myeloma UK), Maureen Lipman, Tracy-Ann Oberman and Amy Rosenthal WRITER Amy Rosenthal raised thousands of ...
The Star-Ledger (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Guillermo Reyes has had four plays produced in Madison, courtesy of Playwrights Theatre over the years. Now he's written a play called "Madison" but it's being staged in Union -- at Premiere Stages, the professional theater in residence at Kean...
