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What was my father's dream?
Before I was born. Before I was even thought of. My dad had a dream about how his life might be.What was it?He told me once that he liked drawing. Did he dream of being an artist? His father did. But...
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What's less interesting? The opening of Heroes? Or commercials on fast...
The article below is a report on the desperate attempts by the networks to slow down their increasing irrelevance to advertisers.Unfortunately the conclusion I take from the quote below (which links...
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The furniture's paid for. The past is not.
It's been a while since I've reported on the money plight - and since the curtain looms on my year of blogging, I thought I should offer an update.The short of it is, we're solvent.In fact, due to the...
View ArticleWhy we're still at war.
I usually stay away from direct political commentary on this blog. There's plenty of it elsewhere, and I often feel that I fall into the trap of provocative didacticism when I'm at the dinner table, so...
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Something else.
My blog is looking a little wordy lately. So, here's a picture, taken at the Getty. It's a Joel Meyerwitz photo. Wordy post about wordy stuff to follow later.
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My critical problem with theatre.
Over on Jaime's blog, there's a nice little write up of Beau Willimon's show at SPF. One of the things that Jaime marvels at is how much she liked a 90 minute, intermissionless two-hander. So used to...
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Does this mean I have to write about Derrida now?
I hope not. Because if I did have to write about Derrida, I'd have to write in columns that compete for attention on the same page in long, maddeningly circular sentences that purposely defy...
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A year ago, I wasn't here.
We gave the MINI a bath tonight and then, like people who can't get off the associative logic train, went over to Target to buy a bathtub for the boy that we expect to be coming into out lives in just...
View Article10: The Executive
Recently, I had lunch with a network executive (from one of the big three) who is a friend of a friend of an aquaintance.It was not a long lunch, though it was clear that he'd read some of my blog and...
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Days past....
Taken just after we got married when she did Belle's at Ashland. I've always thought it funny that we got together - an actress who's made her bones on classics and a playwright who complains...
View ArticleYup.
Glad to know I'm not the only one who thinks about these things.Great post from Patrick.
View ArticleErrors.
The other day I was talking to my mom on the phone and she said she was reading the New Harry Potter Book.I asked how it was."It's good, you know. But Rowling can't write well."Oh?"She's got these...
View ArticleThe Long Goodbye. Or soon anyway.
So, this morning I got up to an email and a post from Laura Axelrod (Gasp!) that she's going to stop writing about theatre on her blog. In essence, politely declaring she's done with the...
View ArticleThanks and Stats
First off, though I already said this in the comments section of the previous post, thanks to everyone for the supportive thoughts.And I didn't mean to say that I was leaving because of a lack of...
View ArticleThe Chair & smaller
Below are a synopsis for smaller and The Chair, the first two plays I wrote at Columbia. Both were produced fairly quickly after writing them - at least in theatrical terms.smaller was produced in San...
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Dressing the Girl
This is the space the Soho Think Tank calls home. It's where the above titled play was generously workshopped in 2005. A first draft was finished in 2002.I began heavily revising it in late 2003. The...
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Fire Baby
I usually describe this as a "horror" play.I mean it in the sense of BURIED CHILD is a horror story and ERASERHEAD is a horror story.And I explain it this way because most people don't understand it,...
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Rinse Tank
Rinse TankDrama, full length, one intermission.Dana collects stories. Stories about broken marriages and one-night benders with bad boys. But when her attempt to take control of her own story leads her...
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Logic of Clawed Feet
I'm still working on this one.Michael Kenyon at the Public used to call it the "flower-penis" play.That's not a horrible description. Plus, there's a wrestling match between the flower-penis and its...
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Beyond the Owing
This play will be produced July 13 -26, at the Red Eye Theater in Minneapolis, directed by Genevieve Bennett.Check it out.... right here.Beyond the OwingDrama, full length, one intermission.It’s Easter...
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