Playwriting
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Posted: November 04, 2020Read more »
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Posted: November 04, 2020Read more »
Welcome to our series of Playwriting Principles from Don Zolidis! These mini-lessons about Don's process adapting How To Survive Being in a Shakespeare Play will help you create your own work both on screen and on stage.
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Posted: October 27, 2020Read more »
Playwright Don Zolidis shares what he's learned about writing and adapting plays for Zoom in this new essay series. Find out how to get your students creating amazing digital theater and virtual productions with these tips!
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Posted: August 19, 2020Read more »
It's election season once again, so we thought we would catch up with playwright Ian McWethy and talk to him about his hilarious play EVERY U.S. ELECTION EVER!
Since the 2020 election might be on your students minds— and on yours— this play offers a positive and laugh-out-loud way to get them thinking about America's democratic process (and maybe even helping them get excited about their history homework while you're at it!).
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Posted: August 01, 2020Read more »
The Pandemic can have us feeling a bit at sea when it comes to gearing up for the new school year. Is it just me? New parameters are being set for doing what we have done, instinctually, for so long. Teachers are having to dig down deep to develop their curriculum this Fall. The creativity we are seeing from theater educators, not surprisingly, knows no bounds!
Pre-pandemic, we met a teacher who was making creative choices for her students habitually. Patty MacMullen has taken the reigns when she has needed to. When she couldn’t find the right piece for her particular group of students, she made it herself. The truth of that piece resonated and now we
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Posted: July 26, 2020Read more »
We’re going back to school… or maybe we’re not going back in-person, it’s all online… or maybe we’re in school but we are social distancing…
This is not an easy time to plan if you are a theater teacher. As you begin to develop your plans for in-school, home-school and everything in between, Stage Partners wants to be a resource to you. Using a play from our catalogue as a starting point and developing lessons around it can help keep the love of theater alive until we can all congregate for a live performance once again.
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Posted: March 29, 2020Read more »
Seems like a lot of us will be sheltering-in-place for a while longer. While distance learning isn't ideal, potentially our students (and us) have some found extra time now that we're all at home.
Seriously: Remember when we were out and about with each other and we all said, “I just wish I had more time!”?
It’s here. COVID-19 has, in some cases, gifted us with time. It’s time to write that play! No excuses.
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Posted: September 23, 2019Read more »
We asked playwrights Patty MacMullen & Mandy Conner to share their advice for getting started with your next script.
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Posted: October 02, 2018Read more »
In non-chronological order, Amy and Craig dissect and examine their tortuous first love affair in scenes that are both heartbreaking and hilarious.
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Posted: September 05, 2018Read more »
Playwright Q&A:
Werner Trieschmann
Stage Partners got to sit down with playwright Werner Trieschmann, author of Fake News!, a hilarious and timely new play that rips the headlines.
