Indie Theatre Presents 1,000 Plays From NO STRINGS ATTACHED Online

Martin Denton, in association with Indie Theatre presents 1,000 plays in a new website, www.indietheaternow.com.

In one of the unheralded Lion and Lamb miracles of the New York Theater scene, Martin Denton, the theater critic, has metamorphosed into Martin Denton, play publisher and champion of under-appreciated playwrights. Martin jumped into the theater scene with NY Theater Experience in 1999 and established NYTheaternow.com, one of the first (and toughest) of the online review sites.

Keeping his ears, eyes and heart open, Martin immersed himself in the off and off-off and nowhere near Broadway scene and was impressed with the talent and pluck of the playwrights defying the odds to make their work at all the tiniest venues in town. He developed the idea of Indie Theater, the east coast equivalent of a free-form Sundance Festival for playwrights he admired. This led to the NYTE Small Press which published paperback anthologies on new plays and that led to the online publishing of Indie Theater Now. His goal of 1,000 plays in 1,000 days has just been reached with No Strings Attached by Manuel Igrejas which just ended its run at Stage Left Studio (www.nostringsattachedtheplay.com).

Indie Theater Now is an online resource where folks can discover, explore, and read new contemporary plays from the world of indie theater. The website contains lots of free content about the plays and playwrights published therein, including an excerpt of every play in our online "library." Users can buy copies of digital plays for just $1.29, and they can purchase multi-play subscription packs at a lower per-play price. Users read the plays on a proprietary JavaScript-based reader that enables them to access the scripts they've bought on virtually any computer, tablet, or smartphone (including iPads and iPhones) with an internet connection.

"Through our major programs-Indie Theater Now, nytheater now, NYTE Small Press, and Community Outreach-we highlight, nurture, promote, and advance the work of thousands of theatre practitioners making groundbreaking and foundational art in New York City and around the US. In curating Indie Theater Now, the plays must be of high quality, as evidenced by production, with something cogent to say to the theatergoing audience. It's written by an author whose theatrical work has not generally reached a wide audience. The play expands or changes the ways that audiences experience theatre.

The end result is an extended life for brave and worthy plays that otherwise would have little exposure once their festival, showcase or limited runs were over. Here is the latest Indie Theater Now podcast, a Fringe NYC preview: http://www.nytheatrecast.com/pcast/nythpod451.mp3i