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PlayFest titles announced
As auditions continue today for Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s PlayFest, I was curious about the names of the scripts we’ll be hearing. So here’s a rundown on what’s coming to PlayFest this April:...
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More about PlayFest’s plays
Patrick Flick, head of new-play development at Orlando Shakespeare Theater, has sent over descriptions of the plays slated for April’s PlayFest. Here you go: WORKSHOPS Don Quixote – The Reckoning, by...
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Theater critics announce six finalists for $25,000 new-play prize
Six U.S. playwrights have been named as finalists in the 2010 Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association ATCA) New Play Award, a national competition run by ATCA, the professional organization of...
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U.S. playwright Katori Hall wins Susan Smith Blackburn award
American playwright Katori Hall has won the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, a $20,000 award given every year to a woman playwright writing in English. Hall received the prize for her play Hurt...
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Playwrights’ group looking for short plays
It’s time once again for Playwrights’ Round Table to begin gathering scripts for its annual Summer Shorts production. Here’s how to enter: Playwrights’ Round Table of Orlando is seeking seven 10-minute...
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Orlando Shakes announces PlayFest schedule, Mark Brown talk
Mark Brown Playwright Mark Brown, whose comedies Around the World in 80 Days and The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge have been Orlando Shakespeare Theater hits, will take part in PlayFest’s keynote event, a...
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Playwright Cori Thomas wins 2011 Osborn Award
Cori Thomas (photo courtesy of City Theatre Company, Pittsburgh) Playwright Cori Thomas, a New York-based writer who has lived in seven countries, has won the American Theatre Critics Association’s M....
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In memoriam: Playwright Lanford Wilson dies at 73
Lanford Wilson Very sad news from yesterday — that playwright Lanford Wilson died of pneumonia at the age of 73. Some of my favorites of Wilson’s plays were not among his biggest hits (Redwood Curtain...
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Mad Cow to present staged reading of ‘Women of Lockerbie’
Deborah Brevoort Some of you may know playwright Deborah Brevoort, who has conducted play-writing workshops here and whose play The Blue-Sky Boys, about the engineers responsible for the first Apollo...
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Theater critics award top prize — again — to playwright Bill Cain
Bill Cain For the second year in a row, New York playwright Bill Cain has won the $25,000 Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Award for a new play — this time for 9 Circles, a harrowing but ultimately...
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Local writer needs audience and actors for new-play reading
Here’s a request from local playwright Carol Rose Offutt: I would like to invite theater enthusiasts to participate in a reading of my play, Distant Runway Lights, a military romance set in the 1940s....
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Playwrights’ Round Table chooses scripts, looks for more
It’s busy time over at Playwrights’ Round Table, where they’ve chosen the scripts for the Summer Shorts series and are on the lookout for a full-length play to be produced in March 2012. The list of...
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PlayFest 2.0 looking for submissions
A new, shortened version of Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s PlayFest — scheduled for Nov. 3-6 of this year — is seeking submissions. Here are the guidelines: Deadline for initial submission – July 15,...
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Nine plays you shouldn’t miss
Robin Williams, Brad Fleischer and Glenn Davis in Rajiv Joseph's 'Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo.' (Carol Rosegg) It’s been all Fringe, all the time here lately, so here’s something completely...
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Theater auditions: Playwrights’ Round Table’s ‘Summer Shorts’
Here’s an audition notice from Playwrights’ Round Table: Playwrights’ Round Table Announces Auditions for Summer Shorts 2011 Playwrights’ Round Table will hold auditions for its production of Summer...
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Playwrights’ Round Table looking for new scripts
Playwrights’ Round Table needs new scripts for its annual John Goring Memorial One-Act Fest and for Fringe 2012. Here are the guidelines and further info: We have a pair of new script calls for the...
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Valencia looking for Florida playwrights
Valencia Community College’s theater department is conducting its annual competition for a Florida playwright, whose winning work will be produced at Valencia next season: Call for New Plays by Florida...
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PlayFest submission deadline is coming up
Just a reminder that the deadline is fast approaching for this fall’s PlayFest 2.0 at Orlando Shakespeare Theater. It’s a new, shortened version of the new-play festival, and here, once again, are the...
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Dennis Neal to play Louis Armstrong in world-premiere play
Dennis Neal Orlando actor Dennis Neal will star as legendary jazzman Louis Armstrong in the world-premiere production of Satchmo at the Waldorf, author and Wall Street Journal theater critic Terry...
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Book review: ‘Wendy and the Lost Boys: The Uncommon Life of Wendy Wasserstein’
When playwright Wendy Wasserstein died in 2006, a lot of theater-lovers grieved. Many of them were people something like me – a woman, a baby-boomer, a product of the same kind of New England women’s...
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