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Eliza Bent

Publish? Perish? Does Anyone Care?

by Eliza Bent

in American Theatre magazine

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(Photo: Benjamin Privitt. Pictured: Mark Jackson and Peter Ruocco in the 2009 Shotgun Players production of Jackson’s Faust Pt1, published by EXIT Press). In the age of the internet, does anyone care about printed plays anymore? A recent panel discussion and performance at the Martin E. Segal Center was titled “Publishing Performance in the 21st Century: [...]

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Call and Response: Young Jean Lee

by Eliza Bent

in I AM THEATRE

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“If you’re studying Shakespeare and you say you want to be a playwright and you have no experience playwriting it’s basically like, you know, being a veterinarian and saying you want to be a dog.” —Young Jean Lee, I AM THEATRE    I never wanted to be a dog. And I certainly never wanted to [...]

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Copyright or Wrong?

by Eliza Bent June 30, 2011 American Theatre magazine

Navigating licensing agreements and copyright laws can be a thorny and expensive endeavor. What is the line between adaptation and overstepping artistic and legal boundaries? The following open letter from Boxcar Theatre’s artistic director is an unusually frank perspective on his company’s struggle with such issues. What do you think about his comments? An Open [...]

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Searching For Life

by Eliza Bent January 18, 2011 Social Media

Who doesn’t love the weird inflections of these cute robots? We sure liked them. As one of the tabulators of the “Top Ten” plays produced at TCG member theatres (as reported to us at time of publication) each year, I am always amazed—and a bit overwhelmed—by how many dead playwrights are done around the country. [...]

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Coming Full Cycle (All Over Again)

by Eliza Bent July 8, 2010 Events
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It is a rare and nice occasion when we learn that something we’ve published in American Theatre magazine is having positive effects on what theatres are doing. It’s also not often that we have a chance to do a followup to an article, but the Arden Theatre Company of Philadelphia’s recent Bike to the Theatre [...]

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Haiku You: Great Plains Theatre Conference

by Eliza Bent June 10, 2010 American Theatre magazine
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I recently returned from the Great Plains Theatre Conference in lovely Omaha, Nebraska and for me it was a half-week filled with readings, workshops, full productions and meeting new people. Part of what was so nice about the experience was the lack of posturing or posing among participants. Perhaps that had to do with the [...]

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