The Drama Bookshop BROADWAYYYYYYY! Seeing plays with friends Going to Dinner with friends after Play Being followed and accosted by a mentally disturbed man while leaving said Dinner, being told I’M GOING TO KILL YOU …
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GUESS WHAT’S BACK
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we are here
Q: have I been away from New York just long enough that walking its streets makes me wax poetic like a little old baby Joan Didion in athleisure pants? A: OBVIOUSLY. My favorite thing to …
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what are theater? what is plays?
I’ve always maintained, in real and imagined interviews and I guess the part of my soul that’s always trying to define itself, that I will always write Plays. I’ve said things like plays are where …
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okaynist
I’m in the midst of a zoom workshop / rehearsal for my new play, Mother’s Day, which is basically just a dramatized play by play of our journey to Joe. It’s about what happens when …
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We Play Ourselves
My playwright buddy / colleague, my FROLEAGUE (TM BEKAH BRUNSTETTER), Jen Silverman, has written what is so far a very gorgeous novel, about a playwright who escapes from NYC to LA after a humiliating career …
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torture spot
I don’t know about you, but MY favorite part of the playwriting process is when none of it is working and all of it is bad and none of it makes sense, and everyday you …
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Post-Covid Theater’s Vaccine
ATTN EVERY AMERICAN THEATER: when coughs are no longer weapons and the feeling of your shoulder against a stranger’s coat isn’t terrifying, and you open your doors again, PLEASE LET IT BECAUSE YOU ARE PRESENTING …
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THEATER EMERGENCY ALERT
When the Broadway league announced that all shows were being cancelled through April 12, it was particularly arresting because A.) I am a theater person and thus obsessed with myself / my own community, but …
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I gave Birth
I just realized a few days ago that at one point in time, I would’ve been about to have a baby, as our last pregnancy was due on Christmas Eve. I’m actually quite shocked that …
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Jesus in Maryland
I’m in Olney, Maryland for the week to workshop Teen Mary Magdalene hearts Teen Jesus musical at the Olney Theater Center, which is very exciting and career and work and play development and yay but …