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The Here & Now Project

Daniel

John Kelley

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The Here & Now Project

A Call for Submissions

26 March 2012

A call to playwrights from across the United States to bring to light stories representing the whole conversation happening in this country.

What Good Is a Playwright in Antarctica?

Mat

Smart

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What Good Is a Playwright in Antarctica?

26 March 2012

Mat Smart muses on what it means to be a playwright living in Antartica.

Little Boxes

Saviana

Stanescu

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Little Boxes

A playwright’s notes on quantified identities

25 March 2012

Saviana Stanescu talks about the danger of pigeonholing artists, and the harm that can be done by reducing a playwrights' work down to just a few facets of their identities.

Newplay.us

Erin

Washington

Essay

Newplay.us

Crowdsourced Opportunities from the #NEWPLAY Community!

24 March 2012

The Pittsburgh New Works Festival is now accepting one-act play submissions

There was no Duncan to slay

David

Dower

Essay

There was no Duncan to slay

Comments on Mike Daisey

23 March 2012

David Dower responds to the Mike Daisey controversy.

Mac Wellman

Hayley

Finn

Essay

Mac Wellman

Pushing Boundaries

22 March 2012

Hayley Flynn coments the way Mac Wellman has inspired a new generation of playwrights to think outside of convention and into community based approaches to making art.

In Search of the Artistic Home

Erik

Ehn

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In Search of the Artistic Home

20 March 2012

Jamie Gahlon has asked theatre artists from around the country to talk about their personal search for an artistic home. Erik Ehn continues this series.

What’s Done Cannot be Undone

P.

Carl

Essay

What’s Done Cannot be Undone

Lies in the Theater and Some Thoughts on Mike Daisey

20 March 2012

The Weekly Howl Tuesday, March 20

Erin

Washington

Essay

The Weekly Howl Tuesday, March 20

"Separating Fact From Fiction—The Role of Docu-Drama" w/ Co-Host @playwrightsteve

20 March 2012

Join the discussion around Mike Daisey’s blog post about the controversy of the accusation of false information in his one man show, The Agony and The Ecstasy of Steve Job.

Havel, Powerlessness, and Us

David

Chapman

Essay

Havel, Powerlessness, and Us

An appreciation

19 March 2012

David Chapman draws attention to the ways we can continue to learn and be inspired from the multi-facted legacy of Václav Havel, first post-Soviet President of Czechoslovakia.

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Recent Essays

The Here & Now Project

A Call for Submissions

What Good Is a Playwright in Antarctica?

Little Boxes

A playwright’s notes on quantified identities

Newplay.us

Crowdsourced Opportunities from the #NEWPLAY Community!

There was no Duncan to slay

Comments on Mike Daisey

Mac Wellman

Pushing Boundaries

In Search of the Artistic Home

What’s Done Cannot be Undone

Lies in the Theater and Some Thoughts on Mike Daisey

The Weekly Howl Tuesday, March 20

"Separating Fact From Fiction—The Role of Docu-Drama" w/ Co-Host @playwrightsteve

Havel, Powerlessness, and Us

An appreciation

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