Playwrights Foundation resident playwright, Marisela Treviño Orta talks to our friends on the East Coast, The New York One-Minute Play Festival blog about her role in next weeks FIRST Annual San Francisco One-Minute Play Festival. She recalls her difficulty finding the right subject about which to write: When...
Two recent veterans of our humble theatrical organization have recently received quite the startreatment. First up, we need to congratulate past ROUGH Readings playwright, Rajiv Joseph for his Pulitzer Prize finalist play, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, for getting its BROADWAY Premiere! Oscar winner Robin Williams returns...
Bay Area Playwrights Festival alum, and all-around cool lady, Erin Bregman, shares her thoughts on writing for the FIRST ANNUAL SAN FRANCISCO ONE-MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL (December 18th & 19th at the Thick House, in Potrero Hill) with the NY One-Minute Play Festival Blog: Six weeks ago I...
Hello to the internet world. A bit of forewarning: this post is less theatre, more vain ramblings of a twenty-something, given the power of THE BLOG! ...
Join us this Sunday, Oct 17th at 3:00PM in the Union Square Borders in SF for a special glimpse into Brooke's new memoir No Place Like Home, A Memoir in 39 Apartments. Here is a taste of what you'll hear on Sunday...
So there I was, a hopeful young and aspiring Bay Area theater person, yearning to know how to write plays that people would want to put on and come see. To have a career doing that, this was my dream. Playwrights were my heroes. I’d studied...
Hello, This week’s playwright is Brian Thorstenson. Enjoy. Question: Where do you most often find inspiration? Brian: Most often? Characters out in the world, people I see and hear during the day. Next would be stories I've read, mostly in the paper. They all act as some...
[caption id="attachment_1170" align="alignright" width="300"] Horizontal image of an old Theatre Marquee. Evening shot.[/caption] “Is theatre still relevant?” This question seems to come up constantly whenever theatre artists gather, be it at a bar after rehearsal, or Starbucks before- we always question whether this art form which...
The Playwrights Foundation is proud to be a producing partner, along with Three Wise Monkeys for the 9th Annual Bay One Acts (BOA) Festival. The Festival runs February 18 to March 13, 2010 at Boxcar Theater. This year’s festival focuses on the theme of "building community," between and across...
Join Us December 19 for This Open-Process Reading Please join us for a musical reading of ...