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A still from A Public Reading Of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney.
A Public Reading Of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney
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A Public Reading Of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney

6 June 2013

W.M. Akers examines immortality in Lucas Hnath's A Public Reading Of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney, questioning can our creations keep us here after we have past?

A burst of colorful powder on a dark background.
On Teaching as Creative Practice
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On Teaching as Creative Practice

5 June 2013

Deborah Stein talks teaching as a creative process and shares a self-created exercise purposed to inspire collaboration among her students.

Portrait of Kristina Wong.
Interview with Kristina Wong
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Interview with Kristina Wong

4 June 2013

Anne García-Romero and Alice Tuan interview Kristina Wong about her “trial by fire” playwriting. Wong’s passionate about theatre that cannot be matched by a camera.

Portrait of Daniel Alexander Jones.
Interview with Daniel Alexander Jones
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Interview with Daniel Alexander Jones

3 June 2013

Daniel Alexander Jones discusses the art of learning from mentors and value of learning the craft of playwriting.

A messy writer's desk with a journal and a typewriter.
Teaching Playwriting in the 21st Century
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Teaching Playwriting in the 21st Century

2 June 2013

Anne García-Romero and Alice Tuan shed wisdom on teaching playwriting and offer their own exercises.

A performer in overalls holds a small bird.
The Affects of Disability Portrayal and Inclusion in soot and spit
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The Affects of Disability Portrayal and Inclusion in soot and spit

31 May 2013

Alice Stanley writes about experiencing Chuck Mee's soot and spit, an experimental play about the artist James Castle featuring deaf and cognitively challenged actors.

Logo for LA Stage Alliance.
Dispatches from LALA Land
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Dispatches from LALA Land

The Road to New Writing

31 May 2013

Holly Derr reports from LA Stage Day, where a lack of female playwrights demonstrates a larger problem: if LA has so many female writers, then how come none of them are getting produced?

Atlanta's Saiah seeks to transform the Great American Novel into the Great American Play
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Atlanta's Saiah seeks to transform the Great American Novel into the Great American Play

30 May 2013

Andrew Alexander looks at Atlanta-based theatre company Saiah, which took on the challenge of making a sea and whale come alive for audiences in their adaptation of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.

Cover for a collection of 24 Gun Control Plays.
Toward a Peaceful Theater
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Toward a Peaceful Theater

30 May 2013

NoPassport collaborates with The Vicious Circle for Gun Control Theatre/New Media Action Week to keep the dialoge through art alive on the subject of gun reform globally

Tiger Woods celebrating his win at the U.S. Open.
Surviving Rejection Season
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Surviving Rejection Season

29 May 2013

Alex Lewin reflects on grappling with rejection as an artist.

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