What Can Be Taught, What Must Be Learned
As the walls among mediums begin to tumble, so too the boundaries separating training programs.
Category Archives: Approaches to Theatre Training꞉ Training for Dramatic Writing
Each January we start the year with a special issue on theatrical training. This year the focus is ostensibly on playwriting programs—though, as you’ll see below, many of the nation’s most prestigious playwriting programs aren’t just teaching writing for the stage anymore, and many of today’s working playwrights have managed to pave their own alternative ways around and through higher education.
Watch This Space: Playwrights Train for All Media
As dramatists begin to write for all media, the nation’s playwriting programs are starting to teach beyond the stage.
MFA or the Highway?
7 playwrights who’ve honed their craft without the coveted degree tell how their roads diverged.
A B-Boy at Yale
Rudi Goblen, break-dancing champ turned playwright, enters a school that has done its own share of learning.
What Is the Question?
Watching and helping John Guare build his plays inspired his erstwhile assistant to do the same.
Write Your Own Program
What emerging writers can—and can’t—learn from schools without a playwriting concentration.
A Door Closes, a Window Opens
What our departing senior editor’s education and writing career has to say about the value of training and experience.
Julia Jarcho Appointed Head of MFA Playwriting at Brown
The downtown playwright and theatremaker talks about her aesthetic and DIY work ethic, and how much of each she’ll bring to her new post.
