MFA or the Highway?
7 playwrights who’ve honed their craft without the coveted degree tell how their roads diverged.
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7 playwrights who’ve honed their craft without the coveted degree tell how their roads diverged.
Rudi Goblen, break-dancing champ turned playwright, enters a school that has done its own share of learning.
Watching and helping John Guare build his plays inspired his erstwhile assistant to do the same.
What emerging writers can—and can’t—learn from schools without a playwriting concentration.
What our departing senior editor’s education and writing career has to say about the value of training and experience.
The downtown playwright and theatremaker talks about her aesthetic and DIY work ethic, and how much of each she’ll bring to her new post.
Caryl Churchill is the only writer working now who says and does something genuinely new with each new play.
The critics chat with the acclaimed Idahoan dramatist, and compare notes on Stephen Adly Guirgis, Harry Connick Jr., and Lauren Gunderson.
How one of the nation’s leading repertory theatre actors, who evoked universal admiration for his own work, returned the favor.
Jose talks with ‘Slave Play’s’ Irene Lucío, and gathers 2019 reflections from Young Jean Lee, Aleshea Harris, Jaime Lozano, and others.