Playwriting

Betsy Franco Directs Ensemble of Teen Monologues Inspired by 'In the Time of the Butterflies'

Nicole Hammersla | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: San Francisco Education, San Francisco Around Town, Rafael Trujillo, Playwriting, Palo Alto, Arts Education, Monologue, Betsy Franco, Video, San Francisco News
Nicole Hammersla

Written and performed by the students of Henry M. Gunn High School, Faceoff seeks to explore the intersection of tyranny and resistance. I caught up with Betsy Franco, who coached Gunn's teen writers and actors through the process.

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Why Can't Art Be Instructive?

Carla Seaquist | Posted 03.16.2012

Read More: Literature, Playwrights, Art, Playwriting, The New Yorker, Afghanistan, J. T. Rogers, London Theater, Lincoln Center, Theater, Blood and Gifts, Artists, John Lahr, Critics, Tricycle Theatre, Lincoln Center Theater, Afghanistan War, Arts News
Carla Seaquist

Why can't Art instruct? In addition to providing entertainment, consolation, beauty, and a reflection of our humanity by holding "the mirror up to nature," why can't Art also teach us a thing or two?

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Exclusive Documentary Clips Reveal Playwright's Painful Past

Turnstyle | Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Clio Barnard, Tribeca Film Festival, Playwriting, Andrea Dunbar, Play, Documentary, Film Festival, Documentary Film, Film, Baftas, Playwright, Culture News
Turnstyle

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Theater of the Every Day Epic

Lauren Gunderson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Athol Fugard, Plays, Playwriting, Lynn Nottage, New Plays, Tony Awards, Theater, Mark Rothko, Lynn Nottage Ruined, Pulitzer Prize, 19th Amendment, Art, Satire, Drama, Theatre, Berkeley Rep, HIV/AIDS, Arts News
Lauren Gunderson

In a world where shocking corruption, violence, and injustice meet stunning generosity, future-making discovery, and a rebellious hope, we need a theater that gives us new ideas, not just a good time.

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Daniel Beaty's 'Chosen Schizophrenia' Drives His Solo Playwriting

James Sims | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Off-Broadway, Playwriting, New York City, James Weldon Johnson, Broadway, Through the Night, Bronx, National Urban League, Acting, Martin Luther King, Daniel Beaty, African Americans, Obie Awards, Arts, Theatre, La Mama, Union Square Theatre, Shakespeare, Love Never Dies, Arts News
James Sims

"Are you asking me if I'm a control freak?" Daniel Beaty asks me as I question his decision to turn an ensemble play into a solo work.

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Eureka! Science Belongs On Stage

Lauren Gunderson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Metropolitan Opera, Playwriting, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Science-and-Art, Opera, Alfred P Sloan Foundation, Science, Theater, Plays, Michael Frayn, Marie Curie, Play, Drama, John Adams, Theatre, Tom Stoppard, Sean Carroll, Science Fiction, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Arts News
Lauren Gunderson

Science is built for the stage. The very act of scientific discovery is one of the most dramatic in the human experience. Dramatic because it changes everything.

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An Openly Optimistic Letter to Performing Artists Freaking Out About Relevance During Hard Times

Lauren Gunderson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Women's Rights, Art, Acting, Playwriting, Oil Spill, Social Entrepreneurship, Social Responsibility, Writing, Drama, Theatre, Theater, Storytelling, Film, Actors, Screenwriting, Arts News
Lauren Gunderson

The change of perspective we offer as artists can become a change of heart, then a change of mind, then a change in life. Our fiction then, is our prediction.

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Third Screen: David Henry Hwang on Defining Yourself in a Shifting World

Vickie Karp | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Interviews, Playwriting, Americans, Chinese Culture, Theatre, Broadway, Elton John, French, Theater, Plays, Madame Butterfly, Playwright, David Henry Hwang, Timothy Rice, Happiness, Obama Celebration, Entertainment News
Vickie Karp

DHH: Theater is uniquely positioned to address issues of community simply because it's not mass media. I do some work in theater. I do some work in film and television.

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