Published in Breaking Character Magazine, December 2016 Read the original interview here. This past fall, Samuel French launched Playwrights Welcome, a national initiative for Dramatists Guild Members that asks theaters to offer unsold tickets to professional playwrights on the day of a performance. Our Breaking Character Magazine Editor, Courtney Kochuba, sat down with Bruce Lazarus […]
Published in The Dramatist Magazine What are we doing when we write for the stage? Are we entertaining ourselves? Entertaining others? Having our say? Trying to make a living? Trying to make a point? Furthering the art form? Joining the dialogue? Trying to save the ship? Trying to sink the ship? Getting even? Getting ahead? […]
By David Auburn Published in The Juilliard Journal, March 2014 In honor of the 20th anniversary of Juilliard’s Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program, one of its many distinguished alums, David Auburn (who wrote, among other plays, the Tony- and Pulitzer-winning Proof), chatted with co-directors Marsha Norman and Christopher Durang. So, I guess the first […]
by Pat Cerasaro 7 August 2011 BroadwayWord.com Today we are talking to a singular literary talent who has written for Broadway, Hollywood, television and film, but, besides her Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway debut, ‘NIGHT MOTHER, which opened on Broadway in 1982, she is perhaps best known as the Tony-winning book-writer for two particularly beloved musicals of […]
Keynote Address The O’Neill Playwrights Conference You asked me to talk about the state of the theatre today. You said I didn’t have to prepare a speech. But I started making notes and it turned into a rant. Well, you know, ask a writer and what do you get. Writing. The state of the theatre […]
2 July 2010 In a reprise of 2008’s “Week 3,” Chautauqua’s most popular week ever, Roger Rosenblatt returns with even more friends for another week-long conversation and celebration of the literary arts. Humor, pathos, new worlds are here to explore, with some of today’s most prominent authors, interviewed by a master at getting to the […]
Published in American Theater Magazine, November 2009 Discussing the status of women in the theatre feels a little like debating global warming. I mean, why are we still having this discussion? According to the NYSCA report[1], 83 percent of produced plays are written by men. And nobody doubts that the North Pole is melting, we […]
To protect and defend your copyright so the theater doesn’t become a work-for-hire arena where you get paid one sum for writing and then the producers own and profit from your material for as long as they want, as in the movies and television To protect your copyright so nothing in your plays, musical books, […]
White’s ‘Trumpet Of The Swan’ Debuts On Stage December 7, 2008 NPR’s All Things Considered | with host Andrea Seabrook Click here to listen to the interview on NPR The E.B. White children’s book The Trumpet of the Swan has been adapted for the stage, and it received its world premiere at The Kennedy Center […]
Sublime Symphonic ‘Swan’ Answers the Call of the Beguiled By Nelson Pressley Special to The Washington Post Saturday, December 6, 2008 Expect a long life for “The Trumpet of the Swan,” the new narrated symphony for kids that premiered Thursday night at the Kennedy Center. The adaptation of E.B. White’s children’s book is in the […]