Documentary to Spectacle – Theatre Theatre Theatre

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Nothing is more exciting than witnessing words on a page transform into movement, sound, action–bodies moving through space, actors giving life to characters, stories unfolding in real time.  With SEVEN, the documentary play conceived by Carol K. Mack and written by seven female playwrights–Catherine Filloux, Gail Kriegel, Carol K. Mack, Ruth…

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365 Women A Year in Los Angeles

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There are so many untold stories–and so many extraordinary women who haven’t been spoken of, let alone depicted onstage.  The 365 Women A Year project is designed to start solving that disparity, with new short plays about incredible women in history–one for each day of the year–being created annually.  (It’s almost…

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From the Self-Starter Dept: The Group Thing…I like it…

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More and more, playwrights are sending out invitations.  Not just the typical request to attend a reading or a production or workshop–but something even more imaginative.  They’re inviting other playwrights to join them in creating group projects.   It’s a trend that I’m really enjoying–not only as a willing participant, but also…

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The more things change…

…the more they stay the same.

Poet Amy Lowell, writing in 1930:

“Imagination is behind all the great things that have been said and done in the world. All the great discoveries, all the great reforms, they have all been imagined first. Not a poem has been written, not a sermon preached, not an invention perfected, but has been first conceived.  And yet imagination must take a second place today and give room for the learning of so-called useful things!”  –Amy Lowell, Poetry and Poets: Essays (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1930)