Tag: playwrights

  • Rambling 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 Toronto, but I hear it’s nice, and it can’t be hotter than here.  Also, my tomato plants aren’t doing as well as I’d like, and…

  • 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…

  • The Cutler Initiative

    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

    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…

  • Meeting Jeffrey Stingerstein

    The first month of 2016 is nearly shot to hell, but not without hitting Philly upside the noggin with eighteen inches of snow.  I spent three hours on Sunday, tunneling out my driveway with my neighbor (Thanks, Nate!), fueled by Aurora’s rum-laced hot chocolate.  And on Monday, I yanked on my boots once again and…

  • 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…

  • Same crap, different year

    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…

  • Christmas at playwright-town

    So, another Christmas, shot to hell. Actually, we had a good time, mostly because Aurora and I worked hard to keep it low-key.  We invited over actor/playwright Mark Knight and producer/playwright/resident curmudgeon Bill McKinlay. Still giddy from the tiny pies I talked about in my last post, we made savory pies for dinner, to wit, chicken,…