Howdy and welcome back to Unknown Playwrights! Our Link Dump lives on! This week’s edition is brought to you by theatre cancellation notices due to COVID-19. Hope everyone’s doing okay!!!!
The Joys of Musical Theatre Cosplay
Sometimes you gotta stand up for yourself
Battling Imposter Syndrome in the theatre
Broadway performer Grace McLean speaks
Musicals of the 2010s, a complete list (except the one I wrote isn’t on this list)
Playwright Chelsea Frandsen’s new mantra
Exploring the lives of Nubian women through theatre
Narration through song in South Africa
Dancing with a deer, a jaguar or a snake
COVID-19 has led to The Short Play Project
Some folks (Johnny Cash’s daughter) think Shakespeare plagiarized wrote King Lear while under quarantine. I don’t think so, but when did the world actually care what I think?
Approved plays for livestreaming
What does a playwright do? (This playwright mostly collects rejection notices)
New Mexico had a fun theatre festival
Aphra Behn, the first professional woman writer (and spy and stuff)
The history of Czech theatre (and opera)
African Americans and Shakespeare
Is Shakespeare racist? (probably???)
Multiculturalism in Shakespeare’s plays (side note: Has England been xenophobic since England began?)
Two goats and two scarred artists
Unlike in WW2 France, collaborators are good people in theatre
Teaching theatre tech when you don’t know theatre tech. Sounds fun.
And that’s it. But we’ll leave you with some Doo Wop 45s….