Comtemporary American Theater Festival (CATF): ‘Uncanny Valley’
We are definitely a culture acraze with technology. I-Phones are only on the lower end of the spectrum: we have virtual realities, simulated sports, robotic housecleaners,...
The Playwright’s Playground: The Playmakers CATF 2014: An Interview with Playwright...
This Special Edition of The Playwright’s Playground continues The Playmaker Series: CATF 2014. In a series of in depth conversations, I speak with the...
Contemporary American Theater Festival (CATF) Review: ‘Dead and Breathing’
Despite the deus ex machina that ends the show—the miracle that I don’t mind mentioning because playwrights that resort to miracles as conclusions should have their...
Contemporary American Theater Festival (CATF) Review: ‘North of the Boulevard’
North of the Boulevard is not for the faint of heart; neither is it for the prudish or the overly sensitive; nor is it for...
Contemporary American Theater Festival (CATF) Review: ‘The Ashes Under Gait City’
How does one create a social movement? How does one create a community? How does one create a mecca for a movement and a...
The Playwright’s Playground: The Playmakers CATF 2014: Ed Herendeen & Peggy...
This Special Edition of The Playwright’s Playground introduces The Playmaker Series: CATF 2014. In a series of in depth conversations, I speak with the...
The Playwright’s Playground: ‘The Playmakers – CATF 2014: Interview With Ed...
This Special Edition of The Playwright’s Playground introduces The Playmaker Series: CATF 2014. In a series of in-depth conversations, I speak with the artistic teams associated...
The Playwright’s Playground-Unscripted and Improvised-Roger Guenveur Smith Discusses His Solo Performance...
Roger Guenveur Smith is a writer, director, and one of those enigmatic actors whose work continues to illuminate the international stage and screen. This...
Contemporary American Theater Festival (CATF) Offering Pay-What-You-Can Previews Until July 10th
Expanded this year! CATF's Pay-What-You-Can Preview series allows you to experience the 2014 repertory of plays before they open at whatever price you care to pay. While...
Contemporary American Theater Festival Interviews Part 2: An Interview with ‘The...
In Part 2 of a series of interviews, Sharon J. Anderson, The Contemporary American Theater Festival (CATF) Trustee and Professional Storyteller, interviews Christina Anderson whose play The...
Contemporary American Theater Festival Interviews: Part 1: An Interview with ‘North...
In Part 1 of a series of interviews, Sharon J. Anderson, The Contemporary American Theater Festival (CATF) Trustee and Professional Storyteller, interviews Playwright Bruce Graham whose play North...
An Interview with CATF’s Scenic Designer David M. Barber by Mike...
David M. Barber is the Scenic Designer of H2O, Scott and Hem In the Garden of Allah, and Modern Terrorism Or They Who Want...
ARTISTIC SPOTLIGHT: An Interview with the Founder and Producing Director of...
ARTISTIC SPOTLIGHT: Ed Herendeen
“New plays are the future,” says Ed Herendeen, the Producing Director of the Contemporary American Theater Festival (CATF), located in Shepherdstown,...
‘A Discourse on the Wonders of the Invisible World’ at The...
Wonders Rattles Skeletons in America’s Closet
A Discourse on the Wonders of the Invisible World, the new play by Liz Duffy Adams, gets its water...
Contemporary American Theater Festival Review: ‘Scott and Hem Imagines Private Lives...
Mark St. Germain’s new play Scott and Hem in the Garden of Allah, which was commissioned by The Contemporary American Theater Festival, is the...
‘H2O’ at Contemporary American Theater Festival by Mark Dewey
H2O Brings Big Ideas to Life
Good plays put people in circumstances that force them to confront essential questions; great plays move people past essential...
‘Modern Terrorism: Laugh and Laugh and Tremble’ at Contemporary American Theater...
If I had left Thursday night’s performance of Modern Terrorism just thirty seconds earlier, it would be easy to write about, because the play...
‘Heartless’ at Contemporary American Theater Festival (CATF) by Mark Dewey
Shephard’s Heartless Probes an In-between Existence
All I remember from my first encounter with Sam Shepard’s plays is that one of the characters in La...