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• blogged

  
  ashdenizen — Authority: 126
  Over at the RSAs Arts and Ecology blog, theres a write-up about Wednesdays interview in Cambridge with Steve Waters.
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• A comic (book) sensibility hits the stage

  
  Drama Queen — Authority: 122
  Marco Ramirez, whos in his second year at the Juilliard Schools prestigious play-writing program, is an award-winning South Florida playwright who has always loved the fantastic worlds to be found in comic books.  His newest full-length work -- Macon City: A Comic Book Play -- is rooted in that tradition, with a ...
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• on air

  
  ashdenizen — Authority: 126
  Steve Waters climate-change plays The Contingency Plan will be broadcast on Radio 3 on 13th December.
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• Theater shorts

  
  Drama Queen — Authority: 122
  No, this isnt a post about a festival of short plays.  Its a collection of brief items about theater -- an edgy play, a benefit raffle, a rock musical premiere, enhanced Broadway touring performances -- from around South Florida. *  Unhinged Theatre, a company of Florida International University theater grads and ...
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• National Theatre podcast

  
  Harold Pinter Archive Blog — Authority: 106
  Listen to David Hare, Simon Callow and Colin Chambers talking about Peggy Ramsay on this National Theatre podcast. I especially like David Hares recital of a typically forthright letter from Peggy. (From the Harold Pinter Archive blog: Cataloguing the legacy of the great playwright)
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• Donuts, Delusions and Delights

  
  THE BARKSDALE BUZZ: Behind the Scenes at Barksdale Theatre in Central VA — Authority: 125
  Posted by Bruce MillerWilliam Inge is the greatest 20th century playwright of the American Midwest. It’s true that fellow “Great American Playwright” Thornton Wilder was born in the Midwest (Madison, Wisconsin), but Wilder grew up in China and California before settling in New England. His Midwestern influences ...
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• The Salt Girl, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre

  
  Zingology — Authority: 132
  The Salt Girl written by and featuring John Kuntz directed by David R. Gammons November 5-22, 2009 It was just a month ago when I saw John Kuntz in the Nora Theater’s production of The Caretaker s, and after seeing The Salt Girl, at The Boston Playwright’s Theatre, I can’t say enough but his range as ...
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• Review: Delectable Love Bites

  
  t5m: Love Personality, Love t5m — Authority: 493
  Delectable Love Bites Leaving the West End to visitors, with their discounted tickets bought from a booth on the day, I headed to explore the budding south east branches of London’s theatreland. The density of actors on The Cut – the side street home to a major cultural institution like the Old Vic ...
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• Playwrights Foundation 2009- Call for Submission of New Plays

  
  The Brainpan — Authority: 141
  Play Submission Season Is Here Submit your work to PF! Between Sept 1 and Nov 30 PF opens its doors to all local and national playwrights through our open access submission process. Here’s a quick link to the guidelines. The staff and a dedicated committee of seasoned Bay Area theater professionals carefully ...
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• Playwrights Foundation November 6, 2009- Play Reading Series Presents New Play

  
  The Brainpan — Authority: 141
  November 6, 2009 Rough Reading Series Kicks Off: Nov 9 & 10 PF’s Rough Reading Series, a free monthly reading series, kicks off the Fall/Winter series next week! Please join us! A new play by Karen Hartman: Goldie, Max & Milk Directed by Jonathan MosconeWith: Jeri Lynn Cohen, Dena Martinez, ...
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• "Bus Stop" is Barksdales Next Classic

  
  THE BARKSDALE BUZZ: Behind the Scenes at Barksdale Theatre in Central VA — Authority: 125
  Posted by Bruce MillerLet’s revisit the tantalizing subject of the Greatest American Playwrights as a lead-in to my next post on William Inge, the author of Barksdale’s upcoming Hanover Tavern production of Bus Stop. Anyone’s personal list of great playwrights will be highly subjective, of course. So I’ve ...
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• Must-Read Interview With Amy Mueller

  
  Direct Address — Authority: 119
  The New Play Blog — run by NEA’s New Play Development Program at Arena Stage — has an extensive interview with Amy Mueller, artistic director of the Playwrights Foundation . It covers everything from the history of the Bay Area Playwrights Festival to the criteria for choosing the plays in the first place, ...
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• the habituated imagination

  
  ashdenizen — Authority: 126
  Next week, Im interviewing playwright Steve Waters, author of the terrific climate-change doublebill The Contingency Plan , in front of a live audience at Cambridge. By way of homework, Ive just read a paper, Heatmapping, which Waters delivered at a conference in Bath in 2007. It links Aeschyluss The Persians , ...
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• Mailbox: Congratulations to Playwright James Still!

  
  Indy Theatre Habit — Authority: 118
  I am delighted for one of my favorite playwrights: **********  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE www.nationaltheatreconference.org November 3, 2009   JAMES STILL ELECTED TO THE NATIONAL THEATRE CONFERENCE   Playwright James Still is a newly-elected member of the National Theatre Conference and was inducted on ...
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• Some Plays Can Twinkle Without Stars

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  “Circle Mirror Transformation” and “The Emperor Jones” are two great productions, with not a single bold-face name.
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• playwright for today

  
  ashdenizen — Authority: 126
  Playwright Steve Waters wrote The Contingency Plan , the acclaimed double-bill about climate change, which premiered at the Bush Theatre in May. (See this blog for and here it is , where the ice goes , and googling waters . See also Finally, a good play about climate change ). Ill be interviewing Steve Waters ...
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• alan bennett regrets passing of censorship

  
  ashdenizen — Authority: 126
  Stage censorship was abolished in 1968, the year of Alan Bennetts first play. So, he says, he was never been seriously incommoded by it. But for other reasons, the playwright regrets its abolition: insofar as it seemed to me to deplete significantly the armoury of the dramatist. With censorship there was a line ...
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• A method in the madness

  
  Harold Pinter Archive Blog — Authority: 106
  Organising the archive of a woman who, according to her biographer, was prone to flinging papers in the air in fits of exasperation is not easy. My first task was to survey the archive, listing the... (From the Harold Pinter Archive blog: Cataloguing the legacy of the great playwright)
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• Coming Attractions in Theater: November 2009

  
  The Arts Fuse Blog — Authority: 120
  You could be Shipwrecked! on stage this month. By Bill Marx Somewhere an enterprising gradate student is working on a trenchant study of the correlation between holiday stage entertainment and the American economy. When things were looking bright and profitable the shows became cynical and comic, with ...
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• Plays (and a musical) get "read"

  
  Drama Queen — Authority: 122
  Play readings give the authors of new work a chance to hear their script come to life (and often, to figure out what might need fixing before the play gets a full production).  And sometimes, theaters offer staged readings of older works theyre considering for a future season or simply as a way of augmenting their ...
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