How they learned to write
I’m a great admirer of Paula Vogel’s play “How I Learned to Drive,” which is the sort of play that playwrights keen to write: unexpected, theatrical, beautifully written, funny, highly entertaining, and enormously empathetic. The thing is a true achievement. She’s also a teacher of playwriting, one that I would submit her students are lucky to have. This piece shares a bit about her teaching practice, as she takes students down what some of us consider the main drag of Philadelphia — South Street, setting for many of my youthful enjoyments — to find stories in the street, waiting to become plays.
(Thanks to Paul Crist for letting me know about this.)