NY Times: Edward Bond, 89, Playwright Who Clashed With Royal Censors, Dies Ah, Edward Bond. Known if for nothing else for the scene from his 1965 play SAVED: it contains a “scene in which some hooligans stone to death a baby in a pram.” The controversy over the play ultimately made it so that the Lord Chamberlain, who had had censorship powers over plays since 1737, was no longer be able to wield that power. In 1976 or so, I read Bond’s NARROW ROAD TO THE DEEP NORTH and at the time thought it was one of the best plays I had ever come across. He was always known for his very active left-wing po ..read more

Mysteries and thrillers are amazingly malleable forms in which to write for the stage in that you can tell a good story, a good yarn as it were, and then subvert that story to your own serious ends … whatever they may be. If you do it right, your audience will latch on to the tale and stay with you. But along the way you can take them somewhere they might not ordinarily go and even give them something to ruminate on the next day. With BLISSFIELD, I knew that I wanted to write a small-town conspiracy play that would focus on a circle of people who had been friends since high school, but were no ..read more

Check out this wonderful podcast with BPPI author Tiffany Antone about her play THE SPACE BETWEEN HER LEGS: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0jXm7Pmm6AhAisjDqjS2Mu Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-present-process-podcast/id1670701714 Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9kNWRlZjgwYy9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw Amazon: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/408f69d0-d5f8-4e65-a9fd-d47fe7b88724/the-present-process-podcast ..read more

We are pleased to announce the publication of 8 new titles: The Comedy of Hamlet (a prequel) by Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor Eleanor and Dolly by Jenny Stafford Hotter Than Egypt by Yussef El Guindi Little Comedies by Anton Chekhov, adapted by Richard Nelson from translations by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky Medea by Euripides, adapted into English verse by Brian Vinero People of the Book by Yussef El Gundi Safe House by Lydia Stryk The Space Between Her Legs by Tiffany Antone ..read more

We are pleased to announce the publication of 8 new titles: The Bourgeois Gentleman by Molière, adapted into English Verse by Brian Vinero City of Light by Anthony Clarvoe, based on the novel by Lauren Belfer Crossing Flight: A Legion Cycle Play by Erin Lerch Last Ship to Proxima Centauri by Greg Lam Shrike: A Legion Cycle Play by Erin Lerch Smoke by Vickie Ramirez Twigs and Bone by Tiffany Antone The Would-be Bourgeois by Carl Sternheim, translated from the German by Laurence Senelick ..read more

We are pleased to announce the publication of 8 new titles: Beating a Dead Horse by Jenny Stafford Blueprints to Freedom: An Ode to Bayard Rustin by Michael Benjamin Washington Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand, translated into English verse by Brian Vinero Nathan the Wise by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, adapted by Michael Bloom Repossessed by Greg Lam Salomé by Oscar Wilde, translated by Matt DiCintio Secret Hour by Jenny Stafford Wilder Gone by Angela Hanks ..read more

Check out the Hear Play audio production of THREE WISE GUYS by Scott Alan Evans and Jeffrey Couchman, based on the stories “Dancing Dan’s Christmas” and “The Three Wise Guys” by Damon Runyon: https://www.hearplayaudiotheatre.com/three-wise-guys ..read more

How two veterans of New York’s 1960s-’70s avant-garde theatre made edgy, alternative theatre in a conservative state, and what enduring lessons their example may hold out for others. You may not associate artists in the vanguard of American experimental theatre with Omaha, Neb., but that’s where Open Theater alums Megan Terry and Jo Ann Schmidman currently reside … Read the rest of the piece at American Theatre magazine. And check out their titles: Approaching Simone Babes in the Bighouse Breakfast Serial Goona Goona Mollie Bailey’s Traveling Family Circus: Featuring Scenes from the Life ..read more

We are pleased to announce the publication of 8 new titles: American Home by Stephanie Alison Walker The Extraordinary EB-1 by Franky D Gonzalez Friends with Guns by Stephanie Alison Walker Hello, from the Children of Planet Earth by Don X Nguyen Komplisit by Mildred Inez Lewis Poets’ Walk by Richard Nelson The Secret Life by Harley Granville Barker, adapted by Richard Nelson Stockholm Syndrome by Adam Szymkowicz ..read more

We are pleased to announce the publication of 8 new titles: The Art of Disappearing by Stephanie Alison Walker The Breach by Naomi Wallace Class Reunion and Other Plays by Kermit Frazier The Dark Arts for Beginners by Nick Robideau Destiny by Edwin Sánchez Esther, Frog Queen by Julie Marie Myatt The Fraudster by Honoré de Balzac, translated by Laurence Senelick Scapino the Trickster by Molière, translated and adapted by Matt DiCintio ..read more