How to Become Successful in Playwriting (While Really Trying)

By Derek M. Kwait November 11, 2014

At 19, NYU freshman Jake Rosenberg is already one of the most accomplished young playwrights in the country, getting his plays put on around the country and winning multiple awards. After seeing his latest play, Muse of Fire, a comedy about Auschwitz inmates putting on a farce about the Dreyfus affair, New Voices editor Derek…

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‘Muse of Fire’ Imagines Comedy in Auschwitz

By Derek M. Kwait November 4, 2014

It was already maybe the smallest stage I’ve ever seen, and much of it was taken up by black spray painted stepladders with boards between them and black theater blocks; the wall behind it painted to look like a brick wall with shadows of barracks on the sides.  The woman seated next to me remarked…

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