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Wednesday, January 25, 2023

Titling the Memoir

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Finding a title is hard. I wrote thousands of reviews back in the day, and I never faced this problem: on nytheatre[dot]com the title of the...
Wednesday, January 18, 2023

Influences

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  On my goodreads author profile there's a place to indicate "influences." I thought hard about who I should list there, and ...
Wednesday, January 11, 2023

How I Came To Write a Memoir

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So I've written a book. It's a memoir: not the story of my life, but stories from my life. The fun ones, about indie theater. It...
Saturday, December 31, 2022

2022: A Year of Books

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  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...
Monday, December 19, 2022

Elephant - A Plays and Playwrights Memory

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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-...

Survivor: Vietnam! - A Plays and Playwrights Memory

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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...
Saturday, December 17, 2022

Last Call - A Plays and Playwrights Memory

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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...
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I write about theater and books. I reviewed theater in NYC for 20 years. I edited and published 16 play anthologies. Indie theater guy.
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