Simplifying, complicating, simplifying again. This has been a year of expanding and paring involvement on professional boards and projects, resuming old roles and assuming new ones. I continue into 2018 on the boards or executive committee of the American Theatre… Read More ›
[article as originally published in Broad Street Review, July 12, 2016.] PlayPenn 2016 Conference. New play readings through July 24, 2016 at the Drake, 302 S. Hicks St., Philadelphia. (215) 242-2813 or playpenn.org. Dramaturgs have always been part of each team working at PlayPenn…. Read More ›
[article originally published in The Clyde Fitch Report, May 24, 2016.] I started my recent phone conversation with Charlotte Miller parsing her Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute (LSTFI) commission project Ugly Little Sister. While we discussed this historic-mythic romp in some… Read More ›
The Whale By Samuel D. Hunter Directed by Davis McCallum Featuring Shuler Hensley, Tasha Lawrence Playwrights Horizons, 416 West 42nd Street November 5, 2012 (opening) — December 15, 2012 production web site Reviewed by Martha Wade Steketee November 13, 2012 After a distant… Read More ›
I am the new kid in town. I’m building a network, patching together professional connections, getting to know locales and hideouts from my morphing perspective of multi-decade visitor cum new inhabitant. I still expect to see Guernica when I visit… Read More ›
Plays in development / plays in the making / plays in the news / plays on the brain / plays for life. Later this month, the 6th annual PlayPenn new play conference will begin here in Philadelphia. Or better said:… Read More ›
