Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Award-winning author and screenwriter SherLann D. Moore has announced the ...

The five-act structure is a plot formula that divides a story into five sections: the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. From these classical explorations comes our ...

As the opening exercise in Jennine Lanouette’s screenwriting class for teenagers, she’ll ask them to think about dating. Then they’ll be asked to write two scenes: one showing a person alone in a room ...

Poor old three-act structure. It gets hammered away at, like an old punching bag, every time someone wants to challenge the primacy of the formulaic Hollywood screenwriting methods. “Take that! You ...