What is POP (aka) Playwrights-On-Playwrights?Who else is POPing Adam Szymkowicz?Up third: Crystal Skillman on Adam Szymkowicz’s Nerve Crystal’s plays include The Vigil or the Guided Cradle, Hack! an I.T. Spaghetti Western, as well as Birthday which will make it’s U.K debut at the East Waterloo Theatre this August. Nerve has been produced in NYC, St…
What is POP (aka) Playwrights-On-Playwrights?Who else is POPing Adam Szymkowicz? Batting second: Brian Pracht on Adam Szymkowicz’s Nerve Brian’s plays include The Misogynist, Or No More Mr. Nice Guy and Unplugged In; he also played Joe in the Flux production of Adam’s Pretty Theft. Nerve has been produced in NYC, St Louis, Miami, Asheville, Philadelphia,…
What is POP (aka) Playwrights-On-Playwrights?Who else is POPing Adam Szymkowicz? First up: playwright Larry Kunofsky writes about Nerve. Larry’s plays include What To Do When You Hate All Your Friends, Social Work (a nightmare), and a cycle of plays riffing on the Old Testament, The Genesis Tapestries. Nerve has been produced in NYC, St Louis,…
You may remember this post from those halcyon days of April, where we promised to have playwrights engaging critically with the full body of work of fellow playwrights. Well, after a much longer gestation period than expected, I’m thrilled to report that the hot steamy playwright-on-playwright action is about to begin! Here’s how it works:…
We stumbled across some fun pics from the 2010 NYITA Ceremony on the BOBOOBLOG courtesy of Eric Roffman – scroll down to see choice party pics of Tiffany Clementi, Kelly O’Donnell, and Candice Holdorf. BOBOOBLOG is new to me, but promises to “keep the spirit of high quality OOB alive by trying to PREVIEW the…
We’re all thrilled to report that our own Heather Cohn was nominated for a New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Director for The Lesser Seductions of History! For those of you who took the time to vote for us, your votes contributed to this nomination, so from all of us, THANK YOU. This is…
(What is Flux Sunday?) Well, this was an unusual Flux Sunday. Due to a perfect storm of summer vacations and busy playwrights, yours truly was the only contributor of pages to this particular Flux Sunday. Luckily, I had a lot of them! Playwrights: August Schulenburg (Dream Walker, Deinde) Actors: Johnna Adams, Greg Waller, Scott Barnhardt,…
After some good comments from Ian and Steve regarding our last post, Playing Ball, I came across another great TED video regarding the structure and impact of game play. Speaker Jane McGonigal designs video games that empower players to change the world. When you level up, the world levels up with you. The idea of…
(What is Flux Sunday?) We’re back! After Jacob’s House and a weekend of rest, we returned to our weekly workshop series, Flux Sundays. After our wonderful residency at the now defunct NYR Studios, where we happily spread out our many scenes, we return to a more nomadic life, and to lesser incarnation of table reads….
OK, so this is one’s REALLY long, but I’ve been away awhile. The recent conversation regarding whether or not video games are art got me thinking, not so much about the question itself – they obviously are – but about why that should seem so obvious to me, and so strange to others. I think…
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