How to Write a Play

Bringing a story to life on the stage and being a playwright requires a different skillset than feature film writing. Learn how to write a play or turn your screenplay into a stage play to expand your writing career.

Bundle Up for the Holidays!

75 Playwriting Lessons I've Learned So Far…

From Script to Screen to Stage: The 20-Year Journey To Make Gifted

10 Reasons You Should Be Writing 10-Minute Plays

Play Time for Screenwriters - Taking the Plunge into Playwriting

INTERVIEW : Adapting a Play - Down the 'Rabbit Hole'

SHOW ME THE LOVE: Love of Death and Destruction

WHY SPEC SCRIPTS FAIL: Aristotle - Part 1

SHOW ME THE LOVE: Warrior Bonding

WRITERS ON WRITING: Lucinda Coxon on Theatre, Breaking In and The Danish Girl

SCRIPT NOTES: Where Story Begins - Premise

SHOW ME THE LOVE: Love of Family

SHOW ME THE LOVE: Interspecies Love

SCRIPT GODS MUST DIE: 'August: Osage County'

SCRIPT GODS MUST DIE: Adaptation, Get It On Paper

SCRIPT GODS MUST DIE: How Do You Know You're A Playwright?

Legally Speaking, It Depends – Playwrights & Playwriting - Act II

Legally Speaking, It Depends: Playwrights & Playwriting - Act I

Script Gods Must Die: The Screenwriter as Playwright - David Mamet

Script Gods Must Die: Adaptation - Faithful Or Original?

The Wide Margin: Summertime Challenge

The Wide Margin: My First Writing Course (A Fairy Story)

Script Gods Must Die: Adaptation, Never Come Morning

The Wide Margin: Happy Birthday, Mr. Shakespeare!

Script Gods Must Die: The Playwright as Screenwriter

The Wide Margin: Creating Characters When There's No Motivation

Script Gods Must Die: On Rejection

The Wide Margin: (Parenthetically Speaking...)

The Wide Margin: Tell the Cat to Beat It!

The Wide Margin: A Writer's Carnal Knowledge

The Wide Margin: A Writer's Rules, A Writer's Tools

TV Writer Podcast 074 - Beau Willimon (House of Cards)

Story Talk: Playwrights Have It Better Than Screenwriters—or Do They?

Ask the Expert - Writing for Theatre and for Film

PrimeTime: How Do I Get An Agent? – Part One

Recap: The Writers Guild Foundation Presents Diane English

Cinderella Liberty - Making the Leap from Screenplay to Stage

Play Structure Made... OPTIONAL!

Getting Your Exercise

Absence Makes the Play Grow Bigger

Good Plays Done Cheap

How to Have a Useful Play Reading