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 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, […]
The 59th Annual Writers Guild Awards, February 11, 2007 I am a playwright, and I also write for the musical theatre. The Color Purple is my latest Broadway outing, I teach at Juilliard and NYU, and am the VP of the Dramatists Guild. I have a Pulitzer for ‘Night, Mother, and a Tony for The […]
Published in “O at Home” magazine column, 2006 If you were ever reading in a beautiful library and wished you could go pour yourself a bourbon and climb into bed, well, that’s what it’s like to live in my New York loft. It’s 1,500 square feet of rent-stabilized space in SoHo, complete with book-filled shelves, […]
Women Writing Plays is the introduction to the book, Women Writing Plays, a collection of essays celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. n my lifetime, in America, women writing for the theater has gone from unheard of to nearly commonplace. Unfortunately, the production of plays by women has not made the […]