Tag: development

  • Todd Cardin at E3T

    The latest installment of the E3T reading series dropped on Tuesday night at Plays and Players, and there was much rejoicing.  Playwright Todd Cardin provided us with Getting the Knack, which is a coming-of-age story (sort of), set in the 1980s, in which the band The Knack plays an instrumental role during a young man’s eighteenth…

  • Back from Budapest

    So, I took a break from the blog to go on an overdue vacation with my lovely spouse.  I would apologize to all my readers, but I sincerely don’t care.  I had a fantastic time in Prague and Budapest, eating lots of various pork parts and paprika everything.  Apart from catching the ballet in both…

  • Two more readings!

    Just because I don’t post it, doesn’t mean I’m not out there, seeing way too much theater.  It simply means that I’m not treating this blog with the proper sanguineness. There’s actually quite a lot of good theater going down this season.  The photos I’m attaching are related to Bruce Graham’s Funnyman at the Arden Theatre,…

  • The rise of E3T

    The Tuesday-night readings at Plays and Players have an official name: “E3T” which stands for “Every Third Tuesday,” which, cleverly enough is when the readings occur.  I like it.  It’s short, it’s descriptive, and I finally have something cool to type.  I’m attaching a photo from the reading three weeks ago, featuring the talented playwright…

  • Playwrights attack!

    So I caught the third new play reading at the Drake last Monday by new local playwright Sarah Galante.  I also caught the second one two weeks ago, by Julia Lopez, but I got lazy and didn’t post anything about it.  However, not to be one to let an opportunity slip by (even one created by…

  • The latest by John O’Hara

    And by “John O’Hara,” I do not mean the drunkard from Pottsville who wrote about his fellow Pottsvillian drunkards in books like Appointment in Samarra, Pal Joey, and Butterfield 8, the last one of which involved Elizabeth Taylor playing a drunk Pottsvillian.  I didn’t see it, but it’s a John O’Hara novel, so I know she wasn’t…

  • Attack of the teenaged playwrights

    I spent Tuesday night at Delaware Theatre Company to attend the Delaware Young Playwrights Festival.  While it would be charitable to say that I was there to support the next generation of playwrights, in point of fact, I was there to support one in particular: my cousin, Anastasia Hutnick.  And, while the high-school-ness of the…

  • The Orbiter 3 launch party

    Orbiter 3’s launch party was last night, and it was quite the place to see-and-be-seen.  Some questioned the wisdom of shoehorning a hundred people or so into a tiny coffee shop, but I thought it was genius.  It gave the event a feeling of immediacy, whereas the same hundred people plunked in the middle of a warehouse…

  • Orbiter 3, aka, the Legion of Doom

    Last week, I attended (and blogged about) the PlayPenn gala, and during the evening of drinking, eating, play-watching, and kudos-delivering, I was pleased and surprised to hear a special shout-out to a new organization in Philly: Orbiter 3. These kids made a special announcement of their existence the week before, and I kid you not, it’s…

  • Living room salon, September 2014

    It’s that time again, when a young man’s fancy turns from a war-and-disease-plagued world toward a living room full of theater and booze.  Sam Barrett opened her house for yet another evening of informal play reading.  The target for our love and derision was Alex Dremann, who’s been my friend and colleague since way back in…