For each of the five playwrights who had just 12 hours to pen a 10-minute play for Plan-B Theatre’s And The Banned Slammed On, a simple text message from producing director Jerry Rapier rightly tweaked the focus and the results were excellent and exciting. Wondering if they would need to stay faithful to the details [...]

In North America, even as more states encourage cheese producers to make artisanal products made from the milk of animals which graze in natural pastures, Wisconsin still holds sway in the continent’s most prestigious cheese competition sponsored by the American Cheese Society. In a show that easily draws more than 1,100 entries each year, Wisconsin [...]

New plays certainly are the life force of the theater and the playwright occupies a unique position among the industry of writers. For the audience to follow along and become engaged with the story being told on stage, the playwright’s responsibility and integrity must be borne out of passion and enthusiasm if the theatrical narrative [...]