Press Release Just in time for the holiday season, award-winning author Laura Esquivel brings the next chapter of international best-seller Like Water for Chocolate to life with the introduction of two books to expand the story into a trilogy collection. Tita’s Diary, the second... Continue Reading →
Press Release Now celebrating its 27th Anniversary, The Blank Theatre’s Nationwide Young Playwrights Festival has chosen 12 plays by playwrights aged 14–19 from six different states. These plays will be presented by professional actors and directors in this year’s Festival... Continue Reading →
The 2018 Humana Festival to feature department faculty and student, simultaneously for the first time. Press Release Two new works selected for the prestigious Humana Festival of New American Plays were written by University of California San Diego playwrights, marking... Continue Reading →
In his first-ever MasterClass, David Mamet (Glengarry Glen Ross, Speed-the-Plow, The Duck Variations, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, American Buffalo) will share insights from his acclaimed career as a Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and two-time Academy Award© and Tony nominee. Students... Continue Reading →
Get ready to enter a world of theatrical combat where audiences pick the winner in Fountain Theatre’s Rapid Development Series for young writers. Get a first look at the work of young, up-and-coming playwrights with this free, competition-style reading series designed to... Continue Reading →
by Tracey Paleo, Gia On The Move Most DEFINITELY NOT the show where you take a Xanax and sit back! Last week's opening of the Quickdraw Poetry Cabaret by the Melrose Poetry Bureau at the Bootleg Theater lived entirely up... Continue Reading →
The Blank Theatre’s 24th Annual Young Playwrights Festival is now seeking submissions nationwide from playwrights 19 years of age and younger. The submission deadline is March 15, 2016. Winning plays will be presented by professional actors and directors from June... Continue Reading →
This year’s festival will include 50/50 mix of male and female playwrights The Road Theatre Company and Taylor Gilbert, Founder/Artistic Director together with Sam Anderson, Artistic Director, return for their 24th season, in the sixth annual Summer Playwrights Festival (SPF6), Sunday,... Continue Reading →
With one final "Ack" beloved comic strip character Cathy (originally authored by cartoonist Cathy Guisewite) said goodbye to her readers on October 3, 2010, after 34 years of struggling through the ups and downs of food, love, family and work -... Continue Reading →
On the heels of a sold out April Fool’s Day kickoff, Barnsdall Art Park continues its literary arts fundraising series with its latest installment, Summer Reading. On June 25th from 7:30-10 p.m., the Park’s iconic Gallery Theatre invites guests to participate in its second BAMBOOZLED: Fact. Fiction. Art? event,... Continue Reading →
The Second Annual Summer Writing Project is looking for the Next Great American Author. We are so excited about this! The Summer Writing Project is an annual collaboration between Black Hill Press, JukePop, and 1888 that advocates writing and supports reading and... Continue Reading →
The Directors Lab West Steering Committee has opened applications for its sixteenth annual Directors Lab West, taking place Saturday, May 23 through Saturday, May 30, 2015. Now entering its 16th year, the annual Lab brings together dedicated emerging and mid-career... Continue Reading →
