| Dramatics is the Educational Theatre Association’s magazine for theatre students and teachers. Published monthly nine times a year (September through May), the magazine contains practical articles on acting, directing, design, and other facets of theatre; profiles of working professionals that offer insights into theatre careers; new plays; book reviews; news about new productions in New York and other major theatre centers; and a monthly calendar of EdTA events. Two special issues each year offer directories of college theatre programs (December) and summer theatre work and study opportunities (February). In the fall, Dramatics publishes the results of the annual play survey. The Dramatics staff also operates EdTA’s Thespian Playworks program, which annually invites four student writers to spend a week, expenses paid, working on their plays with a director, a dramaturg, and a company of actors at the Thespian Festival. The submission deadline for the 2010 Playworks program is February 1. Click here for complete submission guidelines.
The 2010 Summer Theatre Directory Our February issue is devoted to the 2010 Dramatics Summer Theatre Directory, an indispensible tool for students who are planning to spend the summer studying or making theatre. It includes profiles of 135 programs that offer training and performance opportunities in camp, studio, festival, and campus settings, plus info on summer stock companies that offer internships and apprenticeships to young actors and technicians, and a section devoted to summer workshops and classes for theatre educators. Click here to order a copy.
Here’s what’s in our current issue: Song of Extinction. Trying to come to terms with a terrible loss, fifteen-year-old Max Forrestal draws strength from music and from his cranky biology teacher, himself a survivor of Cambodia’s killing fields. This new full-length play has won a bookcase full of awards for playwright EM Lewis, including the American Theatre Critics Association’s Steinberg Award for best new play premiered outside New York in 2008. Wrestling with Success, by Jeffrey Sweet, Stacy Sims, and Debbie Kennedy. In which three young writers—Kristoffer Diaz, Adam Gwon, and Sims—get what’s coming to them: successful top-shelf productions of their work. Read it. The Innovators: Joseph Papp, by Julius Novick. The second in our series of profiles of artists whose work has changed the way we make, experience, and understand theatre. Read it. A Pretty Taste for Paradox. Our acting in musical theatre correspondents Rocco Dal Vera and Joe Deer lead their style tour into the land of Gilbert and Sullivan. Also: Jeffrey Sweet on Superior Donuts and A Steady Rain; Julie York Coppens has a talk with director John Doyle; the Thespian Society inducts its two-millionth member; book reviews of Julius Novick’s Behind the Golden Door and a new edition of The Back Stage Guide to Stage Management. 2008–2009 Dramatics index
Index of plays published in Dramatics, 1978–present
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