Thursday, August 31, 2017
Dear Friends and Colleagues, Today I have an important announcement about Indie Theater Now. Indie Theater Now will cease operations on September 26, 2017. On Monday, September 4, 2017, we…
SOURCE: blog.indietheaternow.com at 03:12PMWednesday, May 10, 2017
Chris Harcum is writing a play about me called Martin Denton, Martin Denton. So it seems only fair and fitting that I should write a blog post about him called Chris Harcum, Chris Harcum. Ch…
SOURCE: blog.indietheaternow.com at 09:54AMMonday, May 8, 2017
These past few months have been exceeding strange for me. Since the end of 2016, I have essentially been re-living the last 20 years of my life.
SOURCE: blog.indietheaternow.com at 01:48AMThursday, May 4, 2017
Announcing a new play about yours truly, coming to the Kraine Theatre in July.
SOURCE: blog.indietheaternow.com at 11:18AMTuesday, March 7, 2017
Debra J’Anthony, the executive director of the Academy of Music Theatre in Northampton, Massachusetts, has just sent me a press release about an upcoming production of Carol Carpenter&…
SOURCE: blog.indietheaternow.com at 02:24PMThursday, February 23, 2017
Sean Chandler, whose play At The Flash is on Indie Theater Now, has just launched a new podcast series about independent/fringe theater. It’s called Your Program is Your Ticket, and yo…
SOURCE: blog.indietheaternow.com at 03:48PMTuesday, February 7, 2017
Today my sad duty is to report that one of the members of that family has passed away. Marc Spitz, whose play Shyness Is Nice is in Plays and Playwrights 2002, died last week at the much-too…
SOURCE: blog.indietheaternow.com at 03:12PMWednesday, February 1, 2017
Folks, with pride and excitement I announce today that the nytheater indie archive launches today. It’s online and live RIGHT NOW, at the old familiar address for indie theater in NYC …
SOURCE: blog.indietheaternow.com at 06:54PMFriday, December 23, 2016
I thought it might be interesting to look back over the past 12 months and take note of some of the new stuff I learned this year.
SOURCE: blog.indietheaternow.com at 04:12PMSunday, December 18, 2016
So: 2017. A milestone, because nytheatre.com was born 20 years ago (in February 1997).
SOURCE: blog.indietheaternow.com at 08:33PMSunday, December 4, 2016
It’s time for our other annual announcement on Indie Theater Now (following last week’s announcement of the 12 most popular plays of the year)! Yes, it’s time to share my …
SOURCE: blog.indietheaternow.com at 09:02PMWednesday, November 30, 2016
As we head toward the end of 2016, I am happy to announce the most popular plays on Indie Theater Now during the past 12 months. It’s a grand, eclectic list — with several repeat…
SOURCE: blog.indietheaternow.com at 01:06AMMonday, November 28, 2016
One of the major challenges we’re facing in pulling together 20 years of content for the nytheater indie archive is the fact that the technology we’ve used to build our websites …
SOURCE: blog.indietheaternow.com at 12:24AMThursday, November 17, 2016
How the NYTE online ecosystem, which has always been dedicated to the proposition that it should be EASY and CONVENIENT to find and explore great American indie theater, will get that much m…
SOURCE: blog.indietheaternow.com at 09:03PMTuesday, November 15, 2016
Our new search resource (look at the prototype) is the engine for the nytheater indie archive project. But the real meat of the project will be the components of the archive that context…
SOURCE: blog.indietheaternow.com at 08:12PMToday we launch the nytheater indie archive community project. I've built a prototype of the search resource that is the engine of our archive and I want everybody to see it now.
SOURCE: blog.indietheaternow.com at 02:06PMFriday, October 28, 2016
The nytheatre indie archive project has a big presence on Facebook! If you haven’t liked it yet, I hope you will do that soon! The Facebook page for our project is really important for…
SOURCE: blog.indietheaternow.com at 07:01PMThursday, October 27, 2016
Sunday, October 16, 2016
Indie Theater Now is a rich resource for teaching playwriting. One way that we use it in the playwriting lab at SUNY/Empire State College is by having students view plays by Indie Theater No…
SOURCE: blog.indietheaternow.com at 09:00PMThis week we are retiring two of NYTE’s elder websites – nytheatre.com and nytheaternow.com. We’re giving them each gold watches and thanking them for years of service. We&…
SOURCE: blog.indietheaternow.com at 09:00PMThursday, October 13, 2016
Indie Theater Now has its roots in NYTE Small Press, the publishing arm of our parent nonprofit that began in 2000. Back then, the only way to get a play script out into the world was to put…
SOURCE: blog.indietheaternow.com at 02:20PMSaturday, September 24, 2016
Many of you know that before we brought Indie Theater Now to the digital universe we used to publish an annual anthology of new indie plays called the PLAYS AND PLAYWRIGHTS series. We actual…
SOURCE: blog.indietheaternow.com at 02:48PMTuesday, September 20, 2016
Kevin Augustine is best known as a master puppet theater creator: if you've ever seen his work, you have experienced a form of 3-D animation that's literally breathtaking.
SOURCE: blog.indietheaternow.com at 02:02PMMonday, September 19, 2016
By Mark Rigney, playwright: Conventional wisdom still insists that the only thing harder than getting a play produced is getting it produced a second time. In the case of Bears, the first tw…
SOURCE: blog.indietheaternow.com at 07:20PMSunday, September 18, 2016
We’ve just added a new play anthology on Indie Theater Now: the Rising Sun Performance Company 15th Anniversary Collection. It’s a celebration of the work and legacy of one of NY…
SOURCE: blog.indietheaternow.com at 01:10PMSaturday, September 17, 2016
Indie Theater Now has just published a new collection of plays from a distinguished playwriting program in NYC. Here’s Lynda Crawford, one of the faculty advisors, to tell folks about …
SOURCE: blog.indietheaternow.com at 07:03PMSunday, September 11, 2016
I first got to know Kevin Doyle about a dozen years ago when I saw his play Styrofoam at Feed the Herd’s Stampede Festival. Styrofoam is a sharp satire of consumer culture — very…
SOURCE: blog.indietheaternow.com at 05:21PMFriday, September 9, 2016
United Solo–the remarkable celebration of solo performance that happens every fall at Theater Row Studio Theater in Times Square–has just announced the nominees for this yearR…
SOURCE: NYTE Small Press at 05:02PMMonday, August 29, 2016
Last night, FringeNYC came to its conclusion, ending as it always does with a big party for the participants where, among other things, the festival’s awards are announced. I’m d…
SOURCE: NYTE Small Press at 06:43PMSunday, August 28, 2016
@unitedsolo @Backstage @indietheaternow 25 Tix left! YEAH, THAT HAPPENED. Encore Performance 9/18 6pm See info below pic.twitter.com/965vg8Y3xw — Nick Rafello (@NICKRAFELLO) August 19,…
SOURCE: NYTE Small Press at 06:16PMHere’s important ITN stuff you need to know to get ready for the upcoming week! We published three new plays on ITN this past week, including Planet Connections award winner The Social…
SOURCE: NYTE Small Press at 06:16PM 
