What is POP (aka) Playwrights-On-Playwrights?Who else is POPing Adam Szymkowicz? Number 5 is alive: J Holtham on Adam Szymkowicz’s Nerve J’s plays include January 2nd, Creative Writing, Lovers to Bed, 11th Hour, Race Music, Household Name, Splendid, and Daylight Savings (What Happens Now). Nerve has been produced in NYC, St Louis, Miami, Asheville, Philadelphia, and…
What is POP (aka) Playwrights-On-Playwrights?Who else is POPing Adam Szymkowicz? Batting clean up: August Schulenburg on Adam Szymkowicz’s Nerve August’s plays include Riding the Bull, Rue, Other Bodies, The Lesser Seductions of History, Jacob’s House, Good Hope, Kidding Jane and Carrin Beginning. Nerve has been produced in NYC, St Louis, Miami, Asheville, Philadelphia, and beyond….
What is POP (aka) Playwrights-On-Playwrights?Who else is POPing Adam Szymkowicz?Up third: Crystal Skillman on Adam Szymkowicz’s Nerve Crystal’s plays include The Vigil or the Guided Cradle, Hack! an I.T. Spaghetti Western, as well as Birthday which will make it’s U.K debut at the East Waterloo Theatre this August. Nerve has been produced in NYC, St…
What is POP (aka) Playwrights-On-Playwrights?Who else is POPing Adam Szymkowicz? Batting second: Brian Pracht on Adam Szymkowicz’s Nerve Brian’s plays include The Misogynist, Or No More Mr. Nice Guy and Unplugged In; he also played Joe in the Flux production of Adam’s Pretty Theft. Nerve has been produced in NYC, St Louis, Miami, Asheville, Philadelphia,…
What is POP (aka) Playwrights-On-Playwrights?Who else is POPing Adam Szymkowicz? First up: playwright Larry Kunofsky writes about Nerve. Larry’s plays include What To Do When You Hate All Your Friends, Social Work (a nightmare), and a cycle of plays riffing on the Old Testament, The Genesis Tapestries. Nerve has been produced in NYC, St Louis,…
You may remember this post from those halcyon days of April, where we promised to have playwrights engaging critically with the full body of work of fellow playwrights. Well, after a much longer gestation period than expected, I’m thrilled to report that the hot steamy playwright-on-playwright action is about to begin! Here’s how it works:…
David Cote’s recently raised the excellent question of why playwrights don’t review playwrights in a post for the Guardian. Then my colleague Rob Weinert-Kendt expanded the conversation over on the TCG blog, and J. Holtham added some quality cents at 99 Seats. At around the same time, I was finishing a biography on my constant…
(What is Flux Sunday?) Still trying to play catch up on the Flux Sunday reports, and a rainy day does indeed help. So, cast your minds back to the far gone day of February 14th, where a last minute change of venue has us scrambling to a location where we can only read the plays,…
(What is Flux Sunday?) Playwrights: Johnna Adams (The Anguisher), James Comtois (McTeague), Mary Fengar Gael (The Gallerist), Kristen Palmer (Sacrifice), Adam Szymkowicz (My Base and Scurvy Heart) Directors: Heather Cohn, MFG, August Schulenburg Actors: Amy Fitts, Brian Pracht, Alisha Spielmann, Isaiah Tanenbaum, Richard Watson, Nancy Franklin, Paula Roman, Ryan Andes, Cotton Wright, Becky Kelly And…
I was aware of the amazing work the National New Play Network is doing with their Continued Life of New Plays Fund, which was also featured as a positive example in Outrageous Fortune. But through Adam’s recent interview with Steve Yockey, I came across an equally interesting program from NNPN called the Emerging Playwrights in…
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