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that feeling of being ten and sinking your teeth into a Grownup Book full of words you imperfectly understand, staying up too late reading under the covers with your flashlight, is one of the defining joys of nerd childhood. let reading be a little dangerous!

Just because your play isn't selected for a particular opportunity doesn't mean that there isn't now somebody advocating for it/for you to get an opportunity that isn't even on your radar. No matter the outcome of a selection process, someone has read your work; that's never a bad thing. #newplays

New play submissions are due to the O'Neill on September 18th and to Great Plains Theatre Commons on October 15. So it's time for my annual reminder: many of the folks reading and adjudicating for these kinds of festivals also work at/for other theaters around the country...

Endlessly glad to have moved out of the south and back to New England.

Here we go. #tonightsbill #newplays

Yeah, I feel like this is the year that we’re seeing people in leadership positions be like “ooh, living up to our values is actually hard work, what if we just…didn’t?”

Andrew. The gasp I gasped when I clocked the omission. I'm speechless. And I'm sorry.

Thank you!

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#newplays #newplay #playwriting

"Make a good, human thing and people will bend over backwards to support you"

The parade was cancelled due to weather right before it was set to begin. Bernie was already lined up, so he marched anyway. I love Vermont.

All of these women artistic directors are stepping down and many of them are being replaced by men and seasons are starting to reflect it.

LOL. They’ve updated their season announcement page to include playwright and director names now. Too bad updating gender disparity is not as easy.

Playwrights Horizons, arguably one of the leading #newplay theaters in the country, just announced a 25/26 season that's nearly devoid of women writers and directors.
I almost missed that fact because I initially closed the page in disgust upon seeing that they failed to credit their playwrights.

The Curious Proposal to Fund a State Arts Council With $1

Devastating arts news out of my home state.

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

I always want to know what your theater's next season is. I never want to watch a video to find out.

Agreed; 100%. Didn't think you were criticizing; I was just "yes, and"-ing.

This obsession with continued growth is also one reason many theaters are struggling right now, especially those who own their own spaces. The financial precarity of rising costs/diminished audiences makes it difficult to think creatively about new ways of working and how to do less better.

Back when my guy owned a successful local bakery, he was explicitly told: "Scale or Fail" by a prospective partner. He said "nah" and sold the business. And we're all happier as a result.

So many theaters do this! Sends me into a blind rage every time.

Fiction. Art. More fiction. A dash of poetry.

This article is a banger. Alex is a force. I've been so lucky to work with and learn from her

Emergency Alert: Six action steps if your NEA grant was just canceled • Oregon ArtsWatch Arts organizations can learn how to still appeal the cancellations, including free resources and support on what steps to take.

all right everybody, here we go

links, trackers, webinars, templates, and all the free support you need if you just got that nightmare NEA email on Friday

please share far and wide, you do NOT have to be in Oregon to use these resources

NEA GRANT TERMINATION TRACKER

*please repost or forward* Here’s a sheet where arts orgs can record information about their NEA grant termination. Annie Dorsen is collecting this info as a first step towards coordinating a response docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

The NEA bloodbath will impact us all, whether we get funds or not, whether we are artists or audience members or simply citizens. I used to look at the low level of federal funding as an American curse. But it also means that, for better or worse, we know how to find a way. We will not be silenced.

The National Endowment for the Arts Begins Terminating Grants (Gift Article) The endowment told arts organizations that it was withdrawing or canceling current grants just hours after President Trump proposed eliminating the agency in the next fiscal year.

The Times has the story. I've heard from most of the same folks mentioned here and many more, including a lot of TYA theaters.

okay

this is an emergency assistance thread for anyone who got this National Endowment for the Arts email today

some of you can still get your money and I’m going to tell you how

article to come later this weekend but here is the Cliffs Notes version:

Congrats!

Again.