Nicholas Wardigo

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  • Meaningless milestones and itinerant playwrights

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    Another milestone!  I hit 85,000 words on my new novel, The Lost City of the Metal Men, which officially makes it the longest thing I have ever written.  I don’t know if that means anything to a non-writer, but I was proud enough to pour myself a martini on Wednesday night to celebrate.  There was also…

  • Sam’s Salon, October 2015

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    I’m a little late on this one, but last weekend, Sam’s salon was graced by the literary stylings of local playwright Lindsay Harris Friel in a little piece she likes to call, This is Halloween.  Timeliness aside, it was cool to see a play with a plot I’d never seen before, to wit, how to explain…

  • Jarnsaxa and Mockingbirds

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    The Pope’s whirlwind visit to Philadelphia was punctuated by an eerie lunar eclipse that turned the moon blood-red.  Foreboding portent of strange days to come? Nah.  Kinda doubt it.  Pretty moon, though. Anyway, two non-Pope-ish things occurred over the weekend that merit mention.  First, I caught the final performance of To Kill a Mockingbird at the…

  • PlayPenn announces playwrights! Lindsay announces stuff! Nick remains cryptic!

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    Earlier this week, PlayPenn announced which plays it will be developing and presenting this summer, and I’m excited to see that James Ijames is among the selected playwrights.  James is a local playwright whose play, The Most Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington, had a kickass reading at Playpenn two years ago (and was produced by Flashpoint…