Tag: Portland Stage Company

Can Novel Newbies Learn Anything From Elite Athletes?

This post starts out at the NY Times article by Gina Kolata entitled “Training Insights From Star Athletes” of January 14, 2013.  http://nyti.ms/UNpDPE  Here’s how Gina begins: Of course elite athletes are natually gifted .  And of course they train hard and may have a phalanx of support staff – coaches, nutritionists, psychologists. But they often have something else that gives […]

A Smart New Twist In The Playwright’s Bag of Tricks Is Coming

  I got an email yesterday outlining an interesting approach to short play production that’s completely new to me and probably to you as well. It seems The Improvised Puppet Project is looking for playwrights to write the first 2-4 pages of a full-length play in any genre (comedy, drama, tragedy, tragicomedy, absurdist, postmodern existentialist […]

Interview of Harlan Baker, Actor, Director and Playwright

I’m pleased to have Harlan Baker as the subject for this interview.  Harlan is an adjunct professor in the Theatre department at the University of Southern Maine, an actor, a former member of the Maine legislature, a union activist, and democratic socialist. He  studied theater at Emerson College and graduated in 1969, and has a […]