The successful miscreants that I call, “friends”
I really thought I was going to start talking about my novel this week. I feel like I’ve been teasing my readers with hints about The Lost City of the Metal…
Read moreRambling from the heat
The summer heat is upon us, and (predictably) I want to shoot myself in the head. Seriously, I ought to migrate to Toronto or someplace. Not that I’ve been to…
Read moreTodd 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…
Read moreThe 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…
Read moreNew reading series at Plays & Players
The title pretty much says it all. Bill McKinlay has started a new reading series that steals its tone from the old, Tuesday-night reading series that the Brick Playhouse used to…
Read moreThe calm before the storm
Predictably, things have been relatively calm theater-wise this summer. I, myself, have taken advantage of the artistic lull by starting work on a new play (my fifteenth full-length, if anyone…
Read morePlayPenn 2015: Eric Pfeffinger
PlayPenn 2015 concluded last week, and while I’m normally a ravenous attendee, haunting all the readings and annoying Paul Meshejian like nobody’s business, I only made it to one this…
Read morePlayPenn Gala
The PlayPenn gala was on Monday night, celebrating their tenth anniversary of developing new plays every summer in the City of Brotherly Such-and-such. Wow. A decade. I know that, in…
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