Category Archives: On the Scene

An Alternate New-Play Universe by the Bay

Over two weekends, writers at the Bay Area Playwrights Festival get two passes at their work, and their needs are as different as their plays.

Sisters are doing it for themselves in the city of brotherly love with a new women’s theatre festival.

The Contemporary American Theatre Festival brings political, edgy, evocative new work to loyal audiences in this idyllic West Virginia town.

New plays get a chance to stretch out in Philly’s “development heaven.”

Shakespeare’s themes of murder and mayhem resonate with prisoners, certainly, but so do his language, his humanity and his humor.

How does HFF, now in its sixth year, stack up to other fringe fests? Sources say: comparable to NYC, but no match for Perth.

Modeling itself after Edinburgh, the Hollywood Fringe Festival may be bigger than ever, but the shows are still small, scrappy and uncurated.

Plays in Nashville Rep’s Ingram New Works Lab go from seedling to sapling. The town’s new-play scene, and the appetite for it, is growing, too.

One week each year, a Nebraska campus becomes a hub for playwrights to rekindle camaraderie and dreams—oh, and present some fierce new work.

The site for the 2015 TCG conference is a city on the rebound, and Cleveland Play House and Cleveland Public Theatre are key players in the upsurge.