The Musical Theatre Issue (2018)
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Masthead of the Musical Theatre Issue (2018)
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Editor’s Notes on The Musical Theatre Issue (2018)
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Dear Dramatist: November/December 2018
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What Rhyme Do You Admire from a Musical Theatre Lyric?
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Adrienne Kennedy: Ten Questions
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The Craft with Lindsey Ferrentino
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How Do You Approach Bookwriting a Musical as Opposed to a Play?
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The Book of Norman, Part 2
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What Should Dramatists Know About Working with Orchestrators?
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On Orchestrations
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When You're Writing Lyrics, How Important is Finding the Perfect Rhyme?
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Rhyme with Sondheim
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The Assignment Conspiracy: Dramatists & the So-Called “Work-Made-For-Hire”
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From the Desk of DGF: The Musical Theatre Issue
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Atlanta: Essential Theatre
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Austin/San Antonio: Dr. Lisa B. Thompson
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Baltimore: Stephanie Ybarra
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Colorado: Theater 29
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Kentucky: Bill McCann
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Los Angeles: A Short Primer on Rewriting
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Michigan: How to Write the Political Play
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Minneapolis/St. Paul: Janet Preus
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New England – South: Championing Fellow Dramatists
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Upstate New York: Two New Regional Ambassadors
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North Carolina: After the Count
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Ohio: Regional Survey and Member Spotlight
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Portland: The Event of a Lifetime
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Utah: Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival
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Dramatists Diary – November/December 2018
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Classified Ads – November/December 2018
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New Guild Members as of September 15, 2018
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Daniel Goldfarb: Why I Joined the Guild
At the DG conference panel on “How to Write the Political Play,” Kira Obolensky spoke about the need to get writers out of the theatre and connected with communities of activism. In May 2018, I assembled a team of writers, directors and dramaturgs to do just that – to explore how theatre and storytelling could do political work at a local site. Artists worked with Anishinaabe communities in the Upper Peninsula (the part of Michigan above the mitten) to tell stories which would illuminate issues of social justice and sovereignty.
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is a playwright, librettist, director, educator, and a professor of performing arts and African American studies at Georgetown University. She writes women’s stories. She lectures and teaches about storytelling for social change.