Time to Write for Theatre

Charles Isherwood at the New York Times suggests that the striking TV writers in the USA should consider writing plays. His piece highlights how many popular TV writers began their careers as playwrights, and he suggests that now is the time for those writers to remember their roots and the benefits of writing for theatre.

There remains an intense hunger for new American voices in the theater. And I am sure that there are any number of comfortable but secretly discontented writers for television and movies who have a slush pile of abandoned ideas for plays sitting in a drawer, or on the hard drive of an old computer. The road back may be rough, but one of you might turn out to be the Bright New Hope of the American Theater.