E. E. Wade is a playwright and performer based in Los Angeles. She's currently in residence with The Gnome Haus, an independent theatre company who performers at the historic 13th Street Rep…
From Playwright Dan Fingerman: When we offered R. Scott Williams the role of Uncle Ira, he said that it would be a change "doing a play where the author isn't dead." I was a little unsure ho…
You can't have lived very long before you start getting tested by life and introduced to the concepts of loss and longing. In part, it's what life is about, what gives life meaning. To a chi…
To a great extent all of us are reflections of the impact others have had on our lives. Praise, encouragement and love generate positive self-esteem while disrespect, disparagement and loath…
From the moment they conceive, most parents have hopes and dreams for their children and are anxious to provide the discipline and encouragement they need to grow from helpless infants into …
It seems to me that mutual trust is the fundamental basis for any relationship. When it starts to fray, the relationship inevitably falters.
No matter how much life-styles change, the human emotions of family dynamics seem to fundamentally remain the same.
The idea for my play "In the Valley of the Sun" came from a combination of two different influences. The first was a reading of "Nine Nations of North America," a 1981 book by Joel Garreau w…
By 1999, actor Richard Glover had been in several of my plays and had become a friend. He lamented that he, like many actors, had gaps between gigs. I suggested I write a solo play for him t…
The Dale Wasserman was my friend and mentor. Although he died in 2008 at age 94, he still influences my writing. He gladly read everything I wrote, and gave me concise constructive critiques…
I have this play, Liner Notes. I wrote the first draft when I was 24.
I moved from Boston to Arizona in 1994 and was immediately enchanted by the state's majestic vistas and diverse cultures. In many ways, it is still very much the wild west.
Little Black Dress INK (LBDI) produces an annual short play contest for female playwrights, and we are thrilled that two of our past winning line-ups are available on Indie Theater Now! With…
By Donna Hoke: Anyone who follows my blog or reads my posts on the Official Playwrights of Facebook knows that I'm a huge advocate of ten-minute plays as a means to building career and makin…
By Cecilia Copeland: Over the past six years "Madness" has traveled all over New York City creating a home for emerging artists wherever we landed.
Last winter Buran Theatre launched the inaugural CartHorse Fellowship to usher in our decade-long collective work in creating and producing new, unwieldy, genre & gender-bending works fo…
A play is created with images. An empty baby carriage abandoned by a park bench. A rap song and two girls in Catholic school uniforms dancing by themselves by Belvedere Castle. A man in his …
At 3:30 AM, Wednesday, August 24, 2016 an earthquake devastated towns in Lazio, Umbria and Marche Italy. Two hundred and ninety people are dead. Thousands are homeless. Not feeling a rumble …
This is the second production of Chokehold. The first production premiered in June 2015 as part of the Planet Connections Festivity where it won Outstanding Overall Production of a New Play.…
91 Central Productions presents character-driven contemporary theater relevant to international audiences. The limited Off Broadway engagement of Safe by Penny Jackson will be at the Theatre…