Comments on: How to Write for the American Theater http://threatquality.com/2009/04/09/how-to-write-for-the-american-theater/ The truth is, you can electrify pretty much anything. Fri, 25 May 2012 23:23:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Valeria http://threatquality.com/2009/04/09/how-to-write-for-the-american-theater/#comment-4219 Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:53:20 +0000 http://threatquality.com/?p=1383#comment-4219 Just found your blog at yahoo and love it! Thank you.

]]> By: Demiurge http://threatquality.com/2009/04/09/how-to-write-for-the-american-theater/#comment-2353 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:12:59 +0000 http://threatquality.com/?p=1383#comment-2353 Wow. This is great. I’m reading plays for the playwrights unit for my theatre, and the BIG IMPORTANT PLAY that they’re producing is the “senile matriarch revealing terrible secrets” trope. I actually injured myself yawning. And this is a hot playwright! Three productions in LA all at once, and writes for a TV show.
It’s all about being hard-working, as it turns out, and writing a lot. That’s a hard truth.

]]> By: At the Theater: Hysteria! « Threat Quality Press http://threatquality.com/2009/04/09/how-to-write-for-the-american-theater/#comment-2162 Fri, 22 May 2009 16:41:22 +0000 http://threatquality.com/?p=1383#comment-2162 [...] contemporaries, but really were contemporaries, meeting each other and talking about things (see my chart; in this case:  Sigmund Freud and Salvador Dali).  I don’t know if Zizka has a thing about [...]

]]> By: How to Write for the American Theater - The Theatrefolk Weblog http://threatquality.com/2009/04/09/how-to-write-for-the-american-theater/#comment-1975 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:02:06 +0000 http://threatquality.com/?p=1383#comment-1975 [...] ever-entertaining Threat Quality Press blog posted this flowchart entitled “How to Write for the American Theater.” Go Zombies! Share and [...]

]]> By: Few wrongs make a write « This page intentionally left Frank http://threatquality.com/2009/04/09/how-to-write-for-the-american-theater/#comment-1962 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:09:06 +0000 http://threatquality.com/?p=1383#comment-1962 [...] they’re waiting, perhaps they can study the inspirational flowchart in “How to write for the American Theater”. Thanks to that, I’m already thinking of a musical based on my Uncle Jemima’s struggle [...]

]]> By: Jason Grote http://threatquality.com/2009/04/09/how-to-write-for-the-american-theater/#comment-1955 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:41:06 +0000 http://threatquality.com/?p=1383#comment-1955 Shit, this is really good, and dead-on. Kudos.

]]> By: threatqualitypress http://threatquality.com/2009/04/09/how-to-write-for-the-american-theater/#comment-1954 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:23:56 +0000 http://threatquality.com/?p=1383#comment-1954 Zombies are hot right now. I used to like zombies, but my fascination peaked a couple years ago when I saw Macbeth Re-Arisen, which was a sequel to Macbeth that was actually Army of Darkness. They mostly cobbled it together from other Shakespeare plays, so it really sounded like an Elizabethan zombie apocalypse play.

After that, I thought to myself, “Okay, done with zombies.” If no one is going to use zombies for what they’re for, then they’re not really interesting when you put them in things.

Knowing how Irony works, I imagine the general public is going to be disillusioned with zombies just in time for the film version of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies to be a horrible financial decision.

]]> By: John http://threatquality.com/2009/04/09/how-to-write-for-the-american-theater/#comment-1953 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:11:11 +0000 http://threatquality.com/?p=1383#comment-1953 Oh man. I don’t even LIKE zombies. How did that happen?

]]> By: Mead http://threatquality.com/2009/04/09/how-to-write-for-the-american-theater/#comment-1937 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:38:47 +0000 http://threatquality.com/?p=1383#comment-1937 Are you kidding? Show me a literary manager and I’ll show you someone who hopes never to read another zombie play so long as s/he lives.
Lit Managers will pass your chart all over the galaxy (I just did). Next think you know you’ll be power pointing at this summer’s LMDA conference.

Oh, and……thanks.

]]> By: braak http://threatquality.com/2009/04/09/how-to-write-for-the-american-theater/#comment-1936 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:18:28 +0000 http://threatquality.com/?p=1383#comment-1936 Well, it looks like it’s been making some kind of rounds, and so it was probably pretty easy to lose track of where it came from. I won’t hold it against Mr. Daisey.

Soon enough, of course, I will have the body of American Literary Managers calling for my head, either on a platter, or potentially some kind of spike.

As for the rest: yeah. Yeah, it is kind of disheartening.

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