Moments of Truth, a musical-in-progress by Caroline Altman and me, is a finalist for the Women in Arts and Media Collaboration Award. The Collaboration Award: Women Working With Women is designed to encourage professional women in the arts and media to work collaboratively with women from other arts and media specializations on the creation of new work. The award honors …
“Reduction in Force” gets a production at the Bard’s Town Theatre in Louisville, KY beginning July 25. From the Downtown Louisville Neighborhood News: “This is our first production of a full-length play gleaned from the open submission process. Of the some 400 submissions, Patricia’s work stood out as phenomenal writing that fits our space perfectly,” says Executive Artistic Director Doug …
I’ve been accepted into Theatre Bay Area’s inaugural ATLAS program, designed to help playwrights focus on creating a career path. It’s a training and mentoring track where each playwright gets assistance mapping out a career and identifying appropriate stretch goals. Twenty Bay Area playwrights will participate in this first program. Advanced Training Leading Artists to Success (ATLAS) was initially developed …
The big, rousing musical story about woman’s suffrage in Wyoming, on which I collaborated with Caroline Altman and Andrew Black, has got a new website, complete with songs, video, and you can even download the script. “Not Without Our Women” examines a little-known historical fact: Wyoming women received and sustained the right to vote nearly 50 years before the 19th …
As you may know, my monologue “Kitty’s Prescription,” directed by Rachel Bublitz, and performed with feline imperturbability by Martha Rynberg, was recently featured in an evening of solo performances. “Women in Solodarity: Cat Ladies,” was produced by All Terrain Theatre and played to sold-out houses in April. The show was a part of the international Home Theatre Festival, where plays …
In this 1963 BBC video interview, Peter O’Toole, Orson Welles and veteran thespian Ernest Milton compete to present the definitive analysis of ‘Hamlet’. Love this intense scrutiny of an entirely fictional character.
After Frank — directed by Laylah Muran and featuring Kate Jones and Karen Offereins — is part of a very entertaining and thought-provoking line-up of new short plays in Sheherezade 13, co-produced by Wily West Productions and Playwrights Center of San Francisco. It runs through the end of April at the Exit Theatre in San Francisco. Read the TheatreStorm article …
The concert reading of “Moments of Truth” under the auspices of 3Girls Theatre was gratifying and educational. We attracted an intelligent, generous audience which nearly packed Tides Playhouse in San Francisco.The after-show talkback was extremely helpful, and we’re strategizing our rewrites for another reading April 20 at the Central Works Writers Workshop, where the work is being developed. See the …
Wednesday, March 6, at 7 pm, at Tides Theatre in San Francisco, a FREE reading of a chamber musical about love, lies, and art: MOMENTS OF TRUTH, Book by 3GT Associate Playwright Patricia Milton (me), and Music and Lyrics by Caroline Altman. In “Moments of Truth,” Nan is a successful painter who is devastated by the abject failure of an …
I’m participating in Wily West’s “The Showdown,” an evening of short plays with a very short turnaround. Eight playwrights were given topics to write about, and just six days to write a short play. My play, “A Whore’s Life, ” is competing with a play on the same topic by the very funny Kirk Shimano. Wily West is a terrific …