Teenage Playwrights

do they need a theater department?

Do teenage playwrights need a theater department?

I’m repeating it because I want answers.

The team that wrote We Live in Cairo wrote 3 musicals in high school. The Tribulations of a Millionaire - set during the stock market crash of 1929- was the first. They wrote it for a class and then staged it … themselves at the local community theater.

It’s a house! But a theater. 3 sold out performances of 50 seats is hard to do. Do you have 150 friends? I don’t.

You can look at the full history of this theater’s productions on their website. Thousands. I was tempted, but I held myself to one of the five shows that were staged the same year. 342 photos of Oliver!

No photos of Tribulations of a Millionaire. Not on Calliope Productions’ official season calendar, unfortunately. The Lazour brothers wrote and staged one play a year there for the next 2 years: Robynn McCree about the wave of Irish immigrants at the end of 19th century, and Affairs of a French Afternoon which takes place in Louis the …