Leicester Bay Theatricals often receives questions from playwrights on what we are looking for in the construction, writing, development, and producing of plays and musicals across all performance platforms.
- What does a play need to be accepted by a publishing company?
- What can I do to get my play produced?
- Should my play be a musical?
- Should my musical be a play?
- Should I write for a particular audience?
- Should I write for a particular theatrical market?
I will try to distill onto this page advice we have given and received from playwrights and friends. If anyone has advice or experience that they would like to share, please e-mail us with your comment. I have been reluctant to open this up as a true blog, as I have been a little leery of that form, due to so much spam and vitriol. After all, I do not want a Facebook battle happening on my site. But, the blog should be working.
Posts will be intermittent.
Posts are listed here alphabetically until we can actually open the BLOG again
- Getting Rejected (March 29, 2024)
- Improving Playwrighting Skills(September 26, 2023)
- Writing In The Dark(27 August 2023)
- 3 Questions for Every Writer (28 July 2018)
- 10 Things from the Playwright’s Center About Script Submission (2 January 2019)
- Capturing Characters Onstage (28 August 2018)
- Character Arc: What and Why? (25 May 2017)
- Conflict (20 July 2017)
- How Many Characters Should I Write For? (3 March 2017)
- The Moment Before (35 May 2020)
- Musical Theatre: The Craft of Composing The Lyrics (28 December 2018)
- Musical Theatre: The Craft of Composing The Music (6 December 2018)
- The Perfect Play? (27 November 2018)
- Playwright’s Potential to Excellence (10 August 2017)
- The Process of Theatre Writing (20 April 2017)
- Proofreaders Marks (30 August 2018)
- Realistic Dialog (8 March 2018)
- Submitting a Script to Anyone (9 August 2018)
- Submitting to a Publisher (13 April 2017)
- Submitting to a Theatre (5 May 2017)
- Theatre As A Compass (21 July 2018)
- Why Do You Write For The Theatre? (27 July 2017)