A nice surprise in Lincoln

Just back from the International Thespians Festival in Lincoln Nebraska. Over the past ten years, we’ve gone to this festival six times and I’m afraid I couldn’t say one thing about the place! The conference is our busiest; twelve+ hour days which leave little time for sightseeing.
Can’t complain though - the festival is the only [...]

Interesting News Part 2

More great news about my newest play SWEEP UNDER RUG. The lovely folks at TADA Theater chose it for their 2006 reading series. It feels wonderful to have so much attention to something that isn’t published yet. It will hopefully give the play a nice boost - it isn’t a fun loving happy play, nor [...]

The Tonys

Watched the Tonys last night. I’ve been watching them for over twenty years and they certainly affected my love for theatre as a youngun’. I have a distinct memory of being sixteen and “whooping” rather loudly because Into the Woods had won best musical and my dad coming downstairs and yelling at me for [...]

My faith in Theatre

I almost wrote a letter to Moises Kaufman recently. Had the email to Tectonic Theatre all ready. Then I almost stood outside the stage door at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre in NYC to get autographs from the cast of Sweeney Todd. What’s up with that? I’m so not that kind of person.
One of those fundimental [...]