Why Most Theater Projects Stall
Why Most Theater Projects Stall Most theater projects do not stall because the work isn’t good. They stall because development is so difficult to sustain. A playwright begins with excitement.A composer starts hearing the score.A collaborative team...
If Your Play Isn’t Moving Forward, Read This
If Your Play Isn’t Moving Forward, Read This There’s a moment almost every playwright hits. You’ve revised the script.You’ve gotten feedback.Maybe you’ve even done a reading. And then… Nothing. No momentum.No next step.No production.No real traction. So you start...
What Makes a Play Producible?
What Makes a Play Producible Every playwright wants the same magical sentence: “I want to produce your play.” But here’s the truth nobody tells you: A producer is not just evaluating your script. They’re evaluating: whether they can afford your script, whether they...
Why Most Plays Don’t Get Produced (And What To Do About It)
Why Most Plays Don’t Get Produced (And What To Do About It) There’s a persistent myth in the theater world: that good work rises to the top. It’s comforting. It’s also incomplete. Because if you’ve spent any time developing new work, you already know the truth: plenty...
Creating Theater in 2023
A Watershed Moment COVID-19 will prove to be the watershed moment in defining the history of the 21st century. Apart from our communal human experience of the virus and its reverberations across the human spectrum, the arts and in particular theater must learn to surf...What I’m Reading
Script Analysis for Actors, Directors and Designers by James Thomas
Scene Change by Alan Harrison