Getting excited for the first night of Poets Theater 2013! Here's a sneak peek from rehearsals for A Day at the Races written by Julie Lythcott-Haims and directed by Brandon Jackson. See you tonight!
Small Press Traffic's 12th Annual Poets Theater Festival, held this January 18th and 19th at CounterPulse, both continues and refreshes a tradition of poets theater in the Bay Area's literary communities that dates back at least to the Berkeley and San Francisco Renaissances of the 40s and 50s -- with roots in experimental modernist theater, vaudeville, 19th century tableaux, Greek drama, and a sometimes baffling array of other sources. Through the past several years of this often ad hoc and participatory, sometimes confounding,
Twelve years ago, in collaboration with New Langton Arts and the (sadly missed) Jon Sims Performing Arts Center, Small Press Traffic helped organize a Poets Theater festival, with several plays and panels in multiple locations around San Francisco. Though initially intended to be a one-time celebration of plays from the 80s and 90s, several younger poets were inspired to re-animate the tradition, and the annual SPT Poets Theater fest was born. Under the ambitious leadership of Elizabeth Treadwell Jackson, and with
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