Playwrights

Nowhere in this journey was the lengthy development cycle that’s become standard in this country. Instead of being workshopped for years, Mothers and Sons practically leapt from the cradle to the stage.

Deception leads to honest revelations in the play This Is My Office

“It’s a little like the day an AARP card arrives on your 50th birthday and you blanch a little and then you grin a little,” says playwright Jon Robin Baitz on the occasion of his first New York revival, which the Keen Company will stage when The Film Socie ty opens Oct. 1.

By MARK BLANKENSHIP How does your career change when other people take it as seriously as you do? Now that she’s been dubbed an “emerging playwright,” meaning an early-career writer whose plays are regularly workshopped or produced, Marisa Wegrzyn is finding out. If nothing else, her notoriety will give her more time to write. Tonight, […]

By Andy Buck Since 1996, the Theatre Development Fund has sponsored an intensive, yearlong playwriting program called the Residency Arts Project (RAP), which matches professional playwrights with teachers and students from New York City high schools. The students learn how to write original scenes and plays, some of which are selected for public staged readings […]