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Selling Myself for School

Posted 1 year ago

Schoolbiz 

This isn’t a pretty story. 

I don’t go around telling it, even to good friends. But a journalist’s job is to convince people to reveal what they wish they hadn’t, and I don’t let anyone with a hot story off the record easy. 

Back in the early 70’s, before the Drama Department at New York University became Performance Studies and you could pick up basic theater history, theory and crit courses, I did class time. I managed to get through comprehensive exams, even proved I had a reading knowledge of French, which I don’t. Then I took a 15-year study break to…

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Can Playwriting Be Taught? 3Q4 18 Playwrights

Posted 1 year, 9 months ago

A student once asked Joe Dowling, artistic director of the Guthrie Theater, where he would advise aspiring actors, directors and playwrights to do graduate work. For the first two, Dowling named the usual suspects, Yale Drama and Juilliard.

Playwriting was another matter entirely. He said he was drawn to the writer “with an entirely personal response to the world, not someone who works from what he’s read, but rather from who he is” and explained that he found it ridiculous to tell a playwright to reach a turning point after 30 pages of dialogue. “What if someone had said that to

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Michigan Theater in Crisis: Film Tax Incentives in Jeopardy

Posted 1 year, 2 months ago

Spring Awakening

In the last few months, I visited some of the theaters in Southeast and Central Michigan, and what’s going on is unprecedented in this region. Theaters are popping up all over, and many are doing exciting work. I reported some of my findings in the Feb 2011 issue of American Theatre Magazine.  No sooner did my story see print than Michigan’s newly anointed Republican governor decided to deal a blow to the emerging theater scene that ought to stop it in its tracks.

With the…

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