What Do Agents Do for Playwrights?
As Charles Kopelman and Sarah Douglas of Abrams Artists Agency explain: They talk, the playwrights write.
Category Archives: The State of the Play
How’s new writing doing, and getting done, on U.S. stages today? And where are the trend lines pointing? This comprehensive special issue takes the pulse of American playwriting from a variety of points of view. Diagnoses vary, as do the prescriptions, but there’s little question that the form is showing unmistakable vital signs as well as troubling symptoms.
A Narrowing of Vision Is Never the Answer
If we can’t move past our bias toward theatre made in the U.S. and ratified in New York, we might as well just build a wall.
Contemporary American Theater Festival’s 5-Ring Circus
How this West Virginia new-play fest builds and rides an annual new-play repertory carousel.
Mac Wellman: An Outlier Tracing His Own Orbit
How this dedicated follower of no fashion and avatar of alternatives to the well-made play keeps it weird.
