Nicholas Wardigo

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  • New Mural at the Drake…with my name on it!

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    So, while I was plunking away at my novel, something interesting happened over the summer; I had my name and a quote from one of my plays plastered on the side of a building. Okay, sure, so did 39 other local playwrights, but that doesn’t make my statement less true.  The Drake Theater (located on…

  • Quickies on Father’s Day!

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    As I more-or-less said I was going to do, I celebrated Father’s Day by going to the local community theater and watching amateur actors talk about dicks.  You wouldn’t necessarily expect that from a community theater, but after watching a piece last year about a sperm donor bank which included plastic jars of suspiciously-viscous substances…

  • Summertime lull

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    Well, we’ve reached that point in the theater season where things are slowing down.  All the theater seasons are coming to a close, and the summer stock hasn’t begun, yet.  PlayPenn is doing its reading series in mid-to-late July, ditto for Orbiter 3’s next show, and the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival will also be starting shortly,…

  • Todd Cardin at E3T

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    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…

  • The Cutler Initiative

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    I probably should have done this last week, but I had a fun time at Joy Cutler’s reading last Monday at the Drake’s reading series.  I already pointed out all the players in my last post, so I won’t bother here, but the short of it is that they were all really good.  Also, I…

  • Back from Budapest

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    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!

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    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,…

  • Playwrights attack!

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    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…

  • Rocketship Anderson strikes!

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    Just got back from a reading of short stories by local writer and playwright Kathy Anderson.  About a year ago, I talked about meeting a second Kathy Anderson (also a writer) and suggested a naming convention to distinguish the two.  Since neither Kathy Anderson has objected to this idea, I will assume their tacit approval.…

  • Same crap, different year

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    Happy new year, everybody!  Yeah, I know the title of this post isn’t the most optimistic, but I figure if I start with the bar low, we can only be pleasantly surprised going forward. The local theaters are only beginning to get their seasons back on track after the holidays, so rather than report on…