Sean O’Casey: A Life by British author Garry O’Connor, an award-winning playwright and novelist also known for his theatre biographies, is his biography of the titular late Irish playwright, free for a limited time courtesy of publisher Endeavour Press. 295 more words
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Tennessee Williams' Catastrophe of Success
Four days before the 1947 Broadway opening of A Streetcar Named Desire, the New York Times published an essay by Tennessee Williams on the depression he’d experienced after the success of… 536 more words
The "Playwright's Intent" and the Dangers of the "Purist"
It’s always exasperating to see people scolding directors for “desecrating” a canonical play or a canonical playwright’s “intent” because they cast actors of color, cast a disabled actor, or removed something racist (or sexist, antisemitic, ableist, etc) from the work. 1,373 more words
10 of the Best Plays by Women Dramatists
The best plays by women
As Virginia Woolf pointed out in A Room of One’s Own, Shakespeare’s hypothetical sister Judith would have found it impossible to make it in the world of Elizabethan theatre. 1,050 more words
Collection of Marketa's Creative Mojo
One of our Fearless Leaders, Marketa is always jotting down beautiful words and mini-expressions of art and inner musings, like a shot of expresso, but for creativity. 112 more words
Wednesday Trivia Question
Who starred in the title role of the American Playhouse mini-series Oppenheimer? 216 more words
Camp NaNoWriMo!
I hark on about National Novel Writing Month a lot. Because it’s really the first thing that pushed me to be able to finish my first (although short and massively under a normal novel word count) novel. 310 more words
