Pithy Party is BACK!Playful Substance's Writers' Groups take the spotlight in this annual staged reading event featuring excerpts of works-in-progress directed and read by company members and friends.
Pithy Party 2021 will follow a telethon format allowing for three unique "In-studio" seatings that will be live streamed over 4 hours with extra content for our online audience! 10 Writers! 10 Directors! 30 actors! No Touch Backs and No Do Overs! Come by and see why there ain't no party like a Pithy Party! |
Image Design: Laura Sisskin
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Works In Progress
In Development....
The Underground Astronauts is a collaboration between Infinite Variety Productions and Playful Substance using interviews about the real life exploits of the women scientists who excavated the Rising Star cave system in South Africa and discovered a previously unknown human relative.
The Underground Astronauts is a collaboration between Infinite Variety Productions and Playful Substance using interviews about the real life exploits of the women scientists who excavated the Rising Star cave system in South Africa and discovered a previously unknown human relative.
What is Playful Substance?
Playful Substance is a New York based theater company dedicated to fostering new works through our Writers Groups, developmental workshops, community events and fully staged productions. We believe that lifelong artist development, work-life balance, and the vitality of an inclusive creative space are integral to the artist’s practice. “Playful Substance” is the mission; substantive work approached with joy, cooperation, sensitivity and humor.
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Our Artists In ConversationA few of our artists sat down to talk with Jay Michaels about playwriting, the state of the arts as we come out of the pandemic, where the pieces fall after George Floyd and the desperate need to fund failure.
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