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RE: Scenes needed

Posted By Arlene Hutton 01-31-2024 14:18
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As It is In Heaven, published by Dramatists Play Service, has a scene for three young women. The characters are Fanny, Izzy and Polly, three young Shakers in the woods by their village in 1800s Kentucky. I've attached a copy of the scene. ------------------------------ Arlene Hutton, playwright Letters ...

RE: Scenes needed

Posted By Arlene Hutton 01-31-2024 14:18
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RE: Massive increase in royalties prices!

Posted By Arlene Hutton 05-10-2023 08:25
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Bret -- Thanks for drawing this to our attention. Since royalty statements for 2023 haven't gone out yet, I had no idea that the prices had been raised and none of us playwrights, as far as I know, are aware of the mandatory script purchase. As a playwright what I've done is have my agent ask the publisher ...

RE: Playscripts's Mandatory Script Purchase Policy

Posted By Arlene Hutton 02-10-2023 14:42
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Guy -- many thanks for following through on this issue and thanks to Don for his insights in a previous post. Thanks for clearing up the misconception that it was the playwrights asking for a minimum script purchase. And thanks to all the teachers who purchase scripts instead of photocopying them and ...

RE: Playscripts's Mandatory Script Purchase Policy

Posted By Arlene Hutton 02-07-2023 08:38
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Thanks for bringing this up; I appreciate your understanding of intellectual property. As a pretty savvy playwright long in print with all the major publishers, I can tell you this is the first I've heard of an "author suggestion for average cast and crew size." My play Letters to Sala has speaking roles ...

RE: Great Plays for Women's History Month - for high school actors

Posted By Arlene Hutton 12-31-2022 05:53
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In addition to Deborah Brevoort's Women of Lockerbie and the already mentioned Radium Girls by D. W. Gregory, I can suggest a couple of my own plays that have been widely produced. All can and should be performed by diverse casts. Letters to Sala, 10-20F, 2-5M (deepening on doubling), a true Holocaust ...

RE: Spring Drana

Posted By Arlene Hutton 07-31-2022 22:58
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Michael -- Thanks so much for recommending Letters to Sala. There have been over a hundred and fifty productions in the past eight years. Sala's daughter Ann Kirshner and I make ourselves available to zoom with schools whenever possible. The play is licensed through Dramatists Play Service and streaming ...

RE: Wednesday's Wisdom from Emeritus Members

Posted By Arlene Hutton 04-01-2022 06:52
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Thanks for this message. This is a great way to teach students about copyright issues. Also, most playwrights enjoy having a dialogue with directors presenting their work and many of us make ourselves available to zoom for a Q & A with the cast. Thanks for producing work by living playwrights! ...

RE: Mary Poppins - Double or Triple Casting

Posted By Arlene Hutton 11-22-2021 07:11
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Hello, Jen -- A friend of mine was in the original Broadway production of Mary Poppins. There was a lot of doubling. You can check the opening night cast list on Internet Broadway Database (IBDB) and see how actors played multiple roles. Taking out the folks who were only in the ensemble or alternated ...

RE: Play ideas for return to our black box theatre

Posted By Arlene Hutton 08-14-2021 09:59
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Letters to Sala, a Holocaust story with an ensemble cast, has exactly the cast size you need, with flexible casting that can shrink with doubling or expand with extras in the big scenes. There are speaking roles for about two dozen actors, some of which can be doubled. There are four nice roles for men ...

RE: Most financially successful non-musical play you've ever done!

Posted By Arlene Hutton 04-16-2021 07:26
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RE: Most financially successful non-musical play you've ever done!

Posted By Arlene Hutton 04-16-2021 07:26
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Letters to Sala, a true Holocaust story with a large ensemble cast of mostly women, has been produced at over 150 school and community theatres in the past decade. Teachers, parents and students have expressed how much it's meant to the actors to perform this story, which is set in both the past and ...

RE: Clear Masks/Shields?

Posted By Arlene Hutton 03-03-2021 10:19
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Live performances of As It Is In Heaven were presented by Rollins College last month. I directed my play with actors masked, mic'd and socially distanced for blocking. The costume shop made masks with filter inserts that matched the actors' dresses, a good solution instead of searching for individual ...

RE: Colleges for theater major off the normal 20

Posted By Arlene Hutton 11-13-2020 10:01
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Broadway star Lisa Brescia (most recently in Dear Evan Hanson) is now a full time professor in the department of music and dance at Missouri State and she loves the department. I've also heard good things about Coastal Carolina. ------------------------------ Arlene Hutton, playwright Letters to ...

Theater Artists Making Theatre With No Theater: Spring 2020 -- just published.

Posted By Arlene Hutton 11-06-2020 12:57
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Just published! I haven't received my copy yet, but I'm looking forward to it. ISBN-13 : 978-1734140224 Theater Artists Making Theatre With No Theater: Spring 2020 During the early stages of the 2020 pandemic, theater-makers across the United States were faced with the devastating reality ...

RE: Longer HS Readers Theatre Plays

Posted By Arlene Hutton 10-27-2020 10:11
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A 45-minute version of Letters to Sala has been performed as a reading several times at the Sewanee Young Writers Conference, with a cast of twelve (using doubling). I'm attaching a manuscript copy. There are additional resources on the website letterstosala.com and Sala's daughter Ann Kirschner, the ...

RE: Longer HS Readers Theatre Plays

Posted By Arlene Hutton 10-27-2020 10:10
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Classic plays by women

Posted By Arlene Hutton 09-23-2020 09:28
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Classic plays by women, dating back to the 1600s, have just been listed by Hedgepig Ensemble Theatre, who will continue to add to the list. Many of these plays are in the public domain. Why is the Theater Canon Filled with Men? These Women Want to Change That - Token Theatre Friends Token Theatre ...

RE: Mexican American plays

Posted By Arlene Hutton 09-19-2020 12:15
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Tlaloc Rivas has a reading of his play DIVISADERO is taking place this Wednesday on Signifying Nothing (theatre company) Facebook page live at 7pm pacific time if anyone wants to tune in: https://www.facebook.com/signifyingnothingtheatre Tlaloc is "a Chicano/Mexican immigrant of Cora/Nayarit descent with ...

RE: Hispanic plays

Posted By Arlene Hutton 09-17-2020 22:30
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Howlround has a list, assembled by Tlaloc Rivas. It's from 2013, so isn't as current as you might like, but is a good list of playwrights. https://howlround.com/101-plays-new-americans-or-latinidad 7, Eight, 9 by Joe Luis Cedillo American Night: The Ballad of Juan José by Richard Montoya ...