My play Absence, winner of the Jean Kennedy Smith Award and nominee for the Elliot Norton and IRNE awards for best new play, will get its European debut this fall at the Oslo Nye Trikkestallen. The play will be performed in Norwegian, … Continue reading
As it’s been over two years since I last made a standard blog entry, I’ve decided to rethink the structure of my website. I originally intended to make this page a regular forum for essays and commentary, but the sad … Continue reading
[Note: The following post is an expansion of a piece originally written for a newsletter sent to subscribers at the New Repertory Theatre.] “Sometimes [while writing] I’m going along and I find myself writing ‘C. comes in’ when I didn’t … Continue reading
I spent the last week of July in sunny Washington, D.C. attending the MFA Playwrights’ Workshop at the Kennedy Center. Sponsored by the National New Play Network, the Workshop was an opportunity for a half-dozen selected playwrights to work with … Continue reading
These days, you can’t spit without hitting a short play festival. On any given weekend, check out the play listings in the Globe or Phoenix, and you’re guaranteed to find some community or fringe theater putting on a set of … Continue reading
I’m only one day back from the 2012 Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, and my head is still spinning. I had some thought of blogging while I was there but, heh, that didn’t happen. They kept us busy from … Continue reading
This needs a bit of explanation. Last summer I got a call from Ronni Marshak (whose name pops up frequently on this site, as she’s directed more of my plays than anyone else); she was producing The Tempest for the … Continue reading
As my introductory blog entry, this will serve to represent a metaphorical champagne bottle to be smashed against the prow of my website, as it ventures out into the Sea of Metaphors Taken a Bit Too Far. So, as a … Continue reading