mdd thoughts

  This year, for some reason, I really got into reading. I read more than 100 books this year, twice as many as I have typically read i...

In the heyday of the New York International Fringe Festival, the last days of August were always much needed downtime for me: after two-and-...

The first time I ever saw a real improv show was also the first time I ever went to The Red Room and it was also the first time I encountere...

When I was reviewing theater, it was almost never the case that I had read the script for a brand new play before I saw it performed. But Ke...

 In 1999 I got an email from a young man named Barrett Ogden, who was just a couple of years out of theater school at Brigham Young Universi...

I think Trav S.D. and I met sometime in late 1999--maybe he can weigh in on this and provide his recollection; mine is that he wanted to wri...

Are We There Yet? was the play that inspired the most lasting work of my career, namely the Plays and Playwrights anthologies. It played s...