Absence returns to New England with a production this May at the Cotuit Center of the Arts out on Cape Cod. Directed by Robert Brock, the show runs in the Center’s Black Box Theater from Thursday, May 5, through Sunday, … Continue reading
Last summer, The Centipede King had a reading up in Newbury, MA. Now, after some revisions, it will return to that territory, with a reading at the Actors Studio of Newburyport, sponsored by the North Shore Reader’s Theater. The reading will take … Continue reading
Every year, Smith and Kraus publish a volume of the best ten-minute plays of the previous year, and I’m pleased to say that for the first time, one of my own plays is included: “Too, Too Solid Flesh,” recent winner … Continue reading
It’s a brand-new year, and we all know what that means! Months of snow, cold, and seasonal affective disorder, of course. Fortunately, there’s a treatment: quality theater to bring a beam of sunshine into the heart of this wretched season. As it … Continue reading
The Arlington Friends of the Drama are holding a fundraiser in the form of a short play festival on the 20th and 21st of November, and one of the plays will be my own “The Evaluation,” a brand-new play never before … Continue reading
I’m a bit late in posting about this (the past few weeks have been very busy indeed), but better late than never: Two weeks ago, on September 24, Fravær (as Absence is known in Norwegian) had its opening night at … Continue reading
The poster for Fravær (the version of Absence being performed by the Oslo Nye Trikkestallen) is now available! As are tickets, which you can order from this website. Words can not express (yes, I know what a thing for a writer to say) how jazzed up … Continue reading
In July, I worked with Megan Schy Gleeson (who directed the Boston Playwrights’ Theatre‘s production of Absence) on a workshop of my play The Centipede King. Now, you can see the results by coming to a staged reading of the play at … Continue reading
For the fourth year in a row, a play of mine will be appearing in the Hovey Players’ Summer Shorts in Waltham, MA. I’m always happy to have my work done at Hovey, as my relationship with the company dates … Continue reading
The Boston Globe features a beautiful article by Don Aucoin on the recent flurry of plays about victims of Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. Among the plays he discusses are Bruce Graham’s The Outgoing Tide, Sharr White’s The Other Place, Barney Norris’s Visitors, and my own Absence. … Continue reading