In our latest installlment of Interview with a Playwright, I spoke with local Bay Area playwright, E.Hunter Spreen of Split the Stick of this year's Bay Area Playwrights Festival. Check it out! Natasha Brown: Thanks for taking the time to talk with me. First question, is your style distinct...
It's Natasha again! I'm back with our interview series, this week with playwright Don Nguyen whose play Sound explores identity and Deaf culture. Natasha Brown: Thank you for letting me interview you! First question, is your style distinct or does it change depending on the play? Don Nguyen: I think my...
Welcome to the 37th Annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival! I'm Natasha, one of the interns at this year's festival, and I will be posting a series of interviews with the playwrights in the next few weeks leading up to the festival from our incredibly talented playwrights. The...
For a translator, taking on the work of a contemporary playwright, especially one as playful and provocative as Léonore Confino, can be a bit like taking a trip down the rabbit-hole. While hanging out the unknown found there, ideally, that time is spent not just...
Cutting Ball Theater is proud to present the American Premiere of Communiqué n˚ 10 as a part of Des Voix...
Christophe Honoré's work has been haunting this translator for years, although I didn't know it until I woke up in a panicked sweat in an apartment in Paris last Fall, rushing to turn on the lights, trying to shake off the most intensely frightening dream...
Rough Reading: Ozma of Oz, written and directed by Rob Melrose Ozma of Oz is a trip hop rock musical that centers on Dorothy and her quest to save the royal family of Ev from the evil Nome King, based on the third book from L. Frank Baum’s Oz...
Written by Sophia Naylor, Production Fellow and Production Assistant for Go On Living Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's powerful new work-in-progress Go On Living is centered around the life of poet Liao Yiwu. Yiwu spent four years in prison in China for his poem Massacre, which condemned his government's violent reaction to the Tiananmen...
Tuesdays are my Mondays…and my Saturdays. Such is life when you work 7 days a week at two places. I’m very tired since I was up since 5:30 A.M. yesterday and didn’t get home until a quarter to midnight. The good news is I was at Playwrights...
Take a walk with Playwrights Foundation this Fall, as we journey to places near and far as we present to you our latest Rough Reading season. We first meet with Dipika Guha with her new play HERCULINE AND LOLA- an epic love story of two people...