Some Hard and Beautiful Truths About Making Plays
In a book excerpt, the seasoned playwright offers insights and advice, not only about how to write but about how to think about your writing productively.
All Stories About Playwriting
Second-Act Problems: What Comes Next Is Up to Us, and Also Not
Poised between a troubled but familiar past and the uncertain promise of a transformed future, is it any wonder we’re having trouble with the next act of our lives?
It’s the Words That We Don’t Say That Scare Me So
Dialogue is mostly a form of behavior and personal revelation usually accidental. Therein lies a drama, and a mystery.
Submitting Your Play: Dos and Don’ts
Artistic leaders at the Playwright Realm writers’ service organization talk about how, when, and whether to send your work for consideration.
What Plays Are You Going Back To? A Playwrights’ Reading List
We asked a number of TCG-published authors which plays they’re reading—or not reading—during this time of crisis.
What It Means to Be a Playwright Right Now
This disorienting global moment is not an intermission—it’s the main drama itself.
Viral Epiphanies: Teaching Writing in the Age of COVID-19
Where will we find the tools to forge a new way of learning and making theatre? They may already be in our hands.
Featured Contributors, January/February 2020
A look at a new kind of graduate training, and at one versatile artist who’s taken the plunge.
Dramatists Guild Reveals New Playwriting Initiative
The new ‘End of Play’ program aims to encourage playwrights to create new works in collaboration with communities in the month of March.
What Can Be Taught, What Must Be Learned
As the walls among mediums begin to tumble, so too the boundaries separating training programs.
