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1100 Playwright Interviews A Sean Abley Rob Ackerman E.E. Adams Johnna Adams Liz Duffy Adams Tony Adams David Adjmi Keith Josef Adkins Nicc...

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Jan 31, 2008

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So I'm going to be working on the Rapid Response Team next. It's a sort of live radio event on whatever went on in the last week or so. Sketches, songs, etc. It starts Feb 10. Full Schedule is here. It should be a lot of fun. Hope to see you there.


http://jessgreen.com/

Blog from an American theatergoer/dramaturg in Berlin writing about the theater she sees there.

http://jessgreen.com/

Jan 30, 2008

the science of love

online matchmakers "Until outside scientists have a good look at the numbers, no one can know how effective any of these algorithms are, but one thing is already clear. People aren’t so good at picking their own mates online. Researchers who studied online dating found that the customers typically ended up going out with fewer than 1 percent of the people whose profiles they studied, and that those dates often ended up being huge letdowns."

Jan 29, 2008

less

ny times To put the energy-using demand of meat production into easy-to-understand terms, Gidon Eshel, a geophysicist at the Bard Center, and Pamela A. Martin, an assistant professor of geophysics at the University of Chicago calculated that if Americans were to reduce meat consumption by just 20 percent it would be as if we all switched from a standard sedan — a Camry, say — to the ultra-efficient Prius.

kind of hilarious

What comes from living near a shoe factory

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2008/01/literary-atmospheres.html

Hat tip to the amazing Gleason

Jan 28, 2008

Why you should read plays

Plays are fucking good.

http://www.dramatists.com/
http://www.samuelfrench.com/store/index.php
http://www.playscripts.com/

http://www.worldcat.org/

an old post

From Patrick: As was pointed out in a recent issue of The Dramatist, royalty rates paid by theatres to produce published plays have scarcely risen in a generation. But playwrights have to pay rents, food prices and healthcare costs that have all skyrocketed in the past 30 years. And all of this has happened while public funding for the arts and artists has dropped dramatically. Remember when the NEA actually gave grants directly to playwrights? Big grants, ones that might help you live for a year or two. Playwriting isn't dying, there are plenty of people interested in writing plays, but the days of people making their living from it are over. Unfortunately, I'm not sure that's a great thing for theatre, because it takes a lot of time spent both writing at home and rewriting in rehearsal, to mold great playwrights, and I think we'll see less ultimately development of professional craftsmanship with writers of theatre. Thanks to whoever it was that pointed this out again. Sorry that I forgot how I got there.

Pirating leads to more sales

http://torrentfreak.com/alchemist-author-pirates-own-books-080124/ h/t Isaac http://parabasis.typepad.com/blog/