Wednesday night went to go see In Fields Where They Lay, a workshop reading of a new in-process play about the Christmas Truce. Alan (from Suckers) was in it, as the upper-class British officer, as well as the cockney mail deliverer. A lot of it was really good ( Read more... )

"One cannot review a bad book without showing off." --- W.H. Auden

So The Wastes of Time, as I expected, was not accepted into the Fringe. And Director is now too busy with other stuff coming up to do a show at the end of May. Which is really fine with me. He's talking about doing it sometime in the Fall now. Whatever ( Read more... )

So much to write, and so little time.

Easter Bonnet Competition Monday was awesome, though the jokes were nearly all

• Let's do half our show in Spanish
• Let's fight the recession by ______
• Lupone don't like cameras
• Liza Minelli exists

Naked Boys Singing did a startlingly classy dance piece, Wicked did hilarious stuff with "More" from Dick Tracy ( Read more... )

So...

• Got e-mail from kid who wants to direct The Wastes of Time. He's convinced his producer to do the show as-is. May 27-31 for a preliminary run, and then hopefully in the Fringe. "He will need to meet you in person to confirm that you are giving us the right to put on the play, and will not pull the rights at any time leading up to, or ( Read more... )

Saw the 6pm performance of the 7-11 plays with nswakko15 and Caroline. An okay show, though mine was a little low-energy. Caroline was thrilled to see the show again (she directed the original production and starred in it along with red_sykora and Tania ( Read more... )

Took the bus with James as we were leaving Playwrights' Group last night. I was telling him about the guy who wants to produce and direct The Wastes of Time, and how his Craigslist post was asking for plays that dealt with "Today's Gay Experience".
James said he didn't consider The Wastes of Time a Gay play, but a play about people who happen to ( Read more... )

Whew, Producer Sprint program bios are all in and I'm ready to print, which means I can fold them at work tomorrow! w00t ( Read more... )

Thanks for all the birthday wishes!!!

Happy birthday zeroshapiro!

And o hai, won captioncontests againSaturday went to the reading of Bob Ost's show. Eric was not in it after all. Disappointing ( Read more... )

_chandra sent me this picture of an awesome Dorothy Parker tattoo.

Kasparov speech interrupted by flying penis. Was Eva Gebloomenkraft on the premises?

Went to playwrighting group at Ken's place last night- now his weird-ass roommate has moved out, they've repainted her room- it's all white and airy now. Read the first act of mollyx's Foxy!. Nice to see ( Read more... )

Aha- message from Chris about New Piano players at Marie's- Michael IS on Wednesdays now, and Adam has been moved to Monday. (Both on happy hour).

Got a response from The Public's writing program. They're not interested in me, based on The Wastes of Time. Kinda bummed ( Read more... )