It's been a pretty crazy fews days here at PF. On Sunday, we had a huge fundraiser "Brunch with a Playwright". Almost three hundred people attended, including 30 playwrights spread out at tables among the masses. It was a really lovely event, on a much larger...
Jason Grote's play BOX AMERICANA:A WAL-MART FANTASIA will kick off the 2007 In The Rough Reading Series, with a pair of readings Stanford and San Francisco on March 26th and 27th. He will also be teaching a three-day playwrighting intensive at PF. Full details for both...
I spent most of the day going through the stacks of submissions, reorganizing, shifting, reading through ones we're passing on to make sure we aren't missing any gems. We're entering a really exciting phase in the selection process, as we've now narrowed it down to a...
I just discovered a wonderful new forum/blog that The Playwright's Center is running on their website. It's called Litup, and is sort an "Ask a Literary Manager" column where playwrights and others can get direct answers to their questions and discuss new play issues they want to bring...
Playwrights Foundation joins forces with the Lark Play Development Center (NYC) and the National Center for New Plays at Stanford U to bring eight brand new plays to the stage though our developmental reading series, In The Rough. San Francisco Readings: Traveling Jewish Theater, 470 Florida St., (between 17th...
Friday was our first selection committee meeting. Or actually the second, but the first was more of a meet-and-greet and as no one had read any of the plays yet, there wasn't all that much to talk about. I'm going to try to blog through the...
We've just got our spring reading series put together. It's a really great group of writers, five of whom are coming out from New York (and three of whom happen to be fanatastic bloggers, if you're into that kind of thing). The schedule is still tentative,...
Sherry Kramer's beautiful play WHEN SOMETHING WONDERFUL ENDS (featured in last summer's festival) is getting its world premier at The Humana Festival! This play is so moving and funny and necessary. Since the summer I've been emailing copies of it to friends saying "You have to read this." The rest...