Oct 30, 2017 – Equity in the Arts Five Conversations About Disability and Theaterby Megan McClainOver 60 artists, administrators, educators, and stakeholders gathered at The Lark for the second Apothetae and Lark National Convening to discuss issues...
Oct 28, 2017 – Playwrights’ Corner A Closer Look: Sam Chanseby Briandaniel Oglesby"Something I came across while I was writing this play (which remains in it) is the idea that our technology is causing us to evolve at an accelerated r...
Oct 27, 2017 – Playwrights’ Corner A Closer Look: Briandaniel Oglesbyby Larissa FastHorse"I ask the same question about space science as I do about art. Why do art when there are hungry people? Why make theater in these big buildings when th...
Oct 26, 2017 – Playwrights’ Corner A Closer Look: Larissa FastHorseby Sam Chanse"Most of my plays have Indigenous themes or issues in them, and the truth is that this current country was built on violence and many people continue to...
Oct 23, 2017 – Playwrights’ Corner A Closer Look: Playwrights' Week 2017 - NYC EditionVideos by Christopher ReyesThe New York-based writers of Playwrights' Week 2017 get together to discuss the plays they'll be working on during the festival in these video interviews!
Oct 19, 2017 – Equity in the Arts Sneaky Ways to Get Cheap(er) Theater Tickets in NYCby Olivia GeorgeOther than scratching the expiration date off your old student ID...
Oct 06, 2017 – Global Exchange Letter from the Artistic Directorby John Clinton EisnerA note from John Clinton Eisner to the audiences of Lark's first public event of the 2017-18 season.
Oct 04, 2017 – Lark News The Lark Announces Line Up of Six Plays for 24th Annual Playwrights' WeekThe Lark is thrilled to announce six plays and playwrights have been chosen through its Open Access Program for the 24th Annual Playwrights’ Week. This...
Oct 03, 2017 – Equity in the Arts Middle Eastern American Theatre Artists Bill of Rightsby Jamil Khoury & Torange YeghiazarianWe the artists of Middle Eastern American heritage and culture, in order to form a more just and inclusive American Theatre, adopt the following as self...
Oct 02, 2017 – Lark News A Closer Look: The Russia/U.S. Playwright Exchangeby Evgeny Kazachkov & Sasha SharovaThe whole idea of this exchange is to “keep the handshake alive.” There are some things in society, culture, art...that we can't learn about from mass m...
Oct 01, 2017 – Playwrights’ Corner Frame of Referenceby Christopher ReyesThis issue always seems to pop up whenever I talk to my friends or colleagues about theater and it nags at me. It nags at me whenever I see a show or re...
Sep 26, 2017 – Playwrights’ Corner The ChirpWrote a play? These folks want to read it! Check out this list of playwriting opportunities with upcoming deadlines.
Sep 25, 2017 – Lark News The Lark Announces 2017-18 Rita Goldberg Playwrights' Workshop FellowsThe Lark is thrilled to welcome Rae Binstock, Nick Gandiello, Lucas Hnath, C.A. Johnson, and Susan Soon He Stanton to the residency this season!
Sep 21, 2017 – Lark News Meet the Apprentices: 2017-18by Christopher ReyesIf you listen closely, you can hear the gentle fluttering of wings as five new Larkees join the nest, eager to be an active part of The Lark’s mission.
Sep 15, 2017 – Lark News Tim J. Lord Selected as First Ever Recipient of The Apothetae and Lark Playwriting FellowshipThis fellowship, for a Disabled writer, includes a two year residency with access to a variety of Apothetae and Lark resources, as well as a $40,000 prize.
Sep 13, 2017 – Playwrights’ Corner Do You Still Miss New York?by Daria PolatinWhen I moved to Los Angeles for TV writing work a few years ago, I missed seeing my theater community on a daily basis. People always asked me if I miss...
Sep 12, 2017 – Playwrights’ Corner The Fear of Owning My Joyby Donja R. LoveI’ve always been prone to think about the ‘what-ifs,’ but recently those thoughts have become overwhelming, debilitating even. What started out as sheer...
Aug 31, 2017 – Equity in the Arts Rethinking Theater Etiquetteby Olivia George"It wasn’t that my peers didn’t want to go to the theater. It was that they suspected the theater didn’t want them to go to it."
Aug 29, 2017 – Playwrights’ Corner In Search of a Homeby Mariana Carreño King...like many teenagers all around at the time, I thought New York was the only place to do theater in the entire world.
Aug 28, 2017 – Playwrights’ Corner The ChirpCheck out these playwriting submission opportunities with upcoming deadlines!
Aug 14, 2017 – Playwrights’ Corner There is No Money in the American Theaterby Matthew Paul OlmosIt is inevitably told to us that making an actual living solely off our art is not going to happen. However, many of us simply shrug this off...
Aug 02, 2017 – Playwrights’ Corner From New York to LA: A Cross Coastal Conversationby Carla Ching & Rehana Lew MirzaMy early TV writing was making my plays bad and my playwriting was making my TV writing bad. I’ve figured out a way to split my brain now a bit more, so...
Jul 28, 2017 – Stages of Resistance Riding Uphill on a Red Bikeby Caridad SvichIt is a baking summer day in London. “Unusually warm and humid for June,” a friend says. I am taking the tube down to Southwark for a staged reading on ...
Jul 27, 2017 – Stages of Resistance Six Stages of Staging "Resistance"by Olivia GeorgeWhen Caridad first pitched the idea for the salon to me, I thought we would get ten writers. Fifteen, maybe...In the end, there were 86 writers, and loo...
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