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Home About Visit Our Website Common Sense vs Conventional Wisdom February 1, 2024 by Rebecca Talked to a physicist recently who said he didn’t believe in common sense. That got me thinking. Was he really referring to conventional wisdom? After all, isn’t common sense just a reasonable means to navigate our world? If that’s true, then common sense is something worth considering when making decisions. I would think. On the … Read more Categories Uncategorized Lights Up, Lights Down, Lights Up March 7, 2022 by Rebecca After a two-year pandemic that, by-the-way, still plays a leading role in our theatre world, it appears as if lights are rising once again on stages across America. At Heartland Plays, Inc., we remain cautiously optimistic. Following the winter holidays, requests for scripts for season selection purposes began showing up daily in our inbox. Actual … Read more Categories Uncategorized Get Your Act Back on Stage June 12, 2021 by Rebecca Here we are, heading into summer with a sense of hope that, finally, we can get our act back on stage. Actors, musicians, comedians, singers, dancers and artists of all sorts, shapes and sizes need an audience: an audience of one or a thousand, but someone out there who cares and shares in this wondrous … Read more Categories Uncategorized Gender Bias February 16, 2021 by Rebecca Okay, so I know a name is not necessarily representative of a person who identifies as female. I say that because I’m basing a statistic on an unreliable data point… that is, the number of writers who I identified as identifying as female who submitted plays for consideration via our website. Of the approximate 100 … Read more Categories Uncategorized A Deaf Perspective January 30, 2020 June 11, 2019 by Rebecca The Last Chance New Play Fest in Helena Montana is currently seeking new 10-minute plays by Montana playwrights on the theme Genetically Modified.” I racked my brain trying to come up with an idea. All I could see was two stalks of corn talking with their feet” rooted in the ground and a pumpkin walking … Read more Categories Uncategorized What Would You Do to Get Your Play Produced? January 30, 2020 January 8, 2019 by Rebecca TUESDAY OF THE DEAD by Dan Weatherer produced November, 2018 at the Last Chance New Play Fest in Helena, Montana. I looked around and it was 2019. How did that happen? I have been meaning to write a meaningful blog since November. Writing a blog is a little like writing a play for me. The idea … Read more Categories Getting Your Work Produced On Set vs On Stage January 30, 2020 June 23, 2018 by Rebecca My husband Mark and I are currently hosting the production crew, writers, director and actors for an Independent film, Two Yellow Lines.” I’ve only been involved on set with one other film, and that was a number of years ago. The process shares similarities with stage production, but with one big difference: when filming on … Read more Categories Uncategorized PLAYWRIGHT A.D. HASSELBRING ON GETTING YOUR WORK NOTICED January 30, 2020 February 1, 2018 by Rebecca www.adhasselbring.com Heartland Plays, Inc. works with outstanding playwrights whose works have won major competitions and have been seen in theaters across the U.S. and around the world. But it still isn’t easy to get a new play noticed, especially if you are a playwright that hasn’t seen a major production that gained either you or … Read more Categories Guest Contributors Where Have All the Young Women Gone? January 30, 2020 September 19, 2017 by Rebecca As both a publisher and a playwright, I hear quite often from theatres We need more plays with female roles — good roles!” So when writing a new play, Pretty Little White Heads” this past year for a competition in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, I created four meaty female roles for young women between the ages … Read more Categories Uncategorized No Small Parts; Tell THAT to Your Actors January 30, 2020 February 25, 2017 by Rebecca If you missed last year’s post Short is In”, check out Guest Contributor, Christina Hamlett’s take on the same subject and how to provide equal opportunity on stage when size matters. Guest Contributor Playwright Christina Hamlett IN REPERTORY Konstantin Stanislavsky is credited with saying, There are no small parts, only small actors.” While this is … Read more Categories Guest Contributors Older posts Page 1 Page 2 … Page 6 Next → Archives February 2024 March 2022 June 2021 February 2021 June 2019 January 2019 June 2018 February 2018 September 2017 February 2017 August 2016 April 2016 November 2015 September 2015 May 2015 March 2015 December 2014 October 2014 September 2014 July 2014 June 2014 October 2013 May 2013 April 2013 February 2013 December 2012 August 2012 April 2012 February 2012 January 2012 October 2011 May 2011 March 2011 January 2011 September 2010 March 2010 February 2010 September 2009 July 2009 June 2009 April 2009 March 2009 February 2009 January 2009 December 2008 November 2008 October 2008 Categories Art and Politics Building an Audience Getting Your Work Produced Guest Contributors The Future of Publishing Uncategorized What’s New for You? 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