Michael Shurtleff’s 12 Guideposts for Auditioning • 2. Conflict • August 23, 2024
Michael Shurtleff’s 12 Guideposts for Auditioning 2. Conflict Conflict What are you fighting for? Is it tangible or intangible? How badly do
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Michael Shurtleff’s 12 Guideposts for Auditioning • 1. Relationships • August 7, 2024
Michael Shurtleff’s 12 Guidepost for Auditioning • 1. Relationships To begin with — do not worry if you don’t know the full
Getting Rejected • PLC BLOG • March 29, 2024
It happens to every creative person at one time or another. Sometimes it can happen many times. It is all right to
Improving Playwrighting Skills • PLC Blog • September 26, 2023
Q: Do you want to get better at characterization? A: Write a 10-minute play on the most compelling character you can think
“Writing into the Dark” • BLOG ( 27 August 2023)
Thanks to: Harrison at playsubmissionhelper.com/blog Dear Playwright, One of the most common pieces of advice you’ll hear from playwrights is to
The Moment Before • BLOG 05-25-2020
The Moment Before Every actor uses it. It is a Stanislavsky acting principle that has infiltrated nearly every other acting system ever
10 Things from The Playwrights Center about Script Submission–BLOG January 2, 2019
Ten Things a Reader Wants You to Know (or, How to Keep Your Script in Consideration) 1. A script is not a
Musical Theatre: The Craft of Composing Lyrics — BLOG — December 28, 2018
Crafting a Lyric Lyrics have the same forms as the music(1) — but which comes first: the music or the lyric? Usually
Musical Theatre: The Craft of Composing Music — BLOG — December 6, 2018
The Theatre Song TYPE (not an exhaustive list) The Overture — in olden times, as in Opera, and Operetta, the Overture was
The Perfect Play? — BLOG — November 27, 2018
THE PERFECT PLAY? Is a play ever really finished, done, thrillingly able to live on its own forever without tinkering? No. Each
Proofreaders Marks — BLOG August 30, 2018
This is for all those who have tried to decipher what the heck they are supposed to do with the return of
Capturing Characters Onstage — BLOG August 28, 2018
I had the privilege to be called down to Ferrum College and the Blue Ridge Dinner Theatre in the summer of 2002.
Submitting a Script to… Anyone — BLOG — August 9, 2018
Submitting a Script to Festivals, Theatres, Anyone BLOG August 9, 2018 1 Your script is your calling card. It speaks for you
Three Questions for EVERY Writer BLOG — July 28, 2018
Three Questions for Every Writer What is the event that propels me to the next scene? Why did I care about this
Theatre As A Compass — BLOG July 21, 2018
Theatre As A Compass The reason I publish for others to produce (maybe even the reason that I write what I write)
Realistic Dialog BLOG — March 8, 2018
Blog topic about creating realistic dialog for characters in a play.
A Playwright’s Potential to Excellence — BLOG August 10, 2017
Apply this to you, the Playwright (Composer, Lyricist) and to each of your characters. It sort of goes along with what I
Why Do You Write For The Theatre — BLOG 27 July 2017
Why do you write for the theatre? A Playwright, a Lyricist, a Composer? What gets you up in the morning to begin?
Conflict — BLOG July 20, 2017
You know — many playwrights struggle over conflict. Some even wonder if they can do without it. Some think it is fine,
Character Arc What and Why – BLOG May 25, 2017
What is a Character Arc and Why is it necessary? A Character Arc is the journey that a character takes through his
Submitting To A Theatre – BLOG May 5, 2017
Submitting a Play or Musical to a Theatre There are many opportunities for this to happen, here are just a few: If
The Process of Theatre Writing – BLOG April 20, 2017
What can I say about playwrighting that can take you from the ideas, to the words, to the page, to the stage?
Submitting to a Publisher – BLOG April 13, 2017
Well, this one can be complicated. Each publisher has different requirements for play and musical submission. Some are agented, (which means that
How many characters should I write for – BLOG 3 March 2017
In a recent post on a Facebook Playwrights page the number of characters in a play or musical was discussed. Now: Number