The totemic word: The history of new-play development is strewn with success--and frustrations. (The Future of New Work).
American Theatre, November, 2002 by Levitow, Roberta
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AMERICAN THEATRE SINCE Eugene O'Neill has been known as a theatre of new writing, and this tradition has been profoundly enriched--culturally, geographically and otherwise--by the breadth of writing spawned by new-play development programs. Prior to the rise of the not-for-profit regional theatre movement, commercial producers initiated the production of new plays, mainly in New York City.
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In 1957, McNeil Lowry and the Ford Foundation helped catalyze new-play development with a series of grants as part an effort to decentralize the American theatre. Today, TCG's annual Dramatists ...
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