Twenty some years writing and making plays and I heard something yesterday for the first time, she went up. During a preview, an actor forgot a line and we all just sort of sat there …
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The Harvest
Hiding in the back of the theater, chewing on my hair, hunched over to protect my heart, I feel like a farmer waiting to see what her crops will yield. When something doesn’t land quite …
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first preview
It was your special, sacred thing, an inside joke, a secret, your baby, the inner folds of your soul, and now it’s for everyone. Everyone has snacks to eat and must eat them one at a …
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The Playbills
There they just are, in a stack by the door, just hanging out, waiting to be held and flipped through and spilled on, collected. When I was in high school I kept all of mine, …
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Work
Today, my job is to be in Miami with Ingrid at the Broadway Across America conference, promoting our show, in hopes of booking a good solid national tour. It’s my job to eat unlimited shrimp …
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your train
Joe: this train is for Dad and me and Bobbie. Here’s our beds and this part’s where we keep the toys. Me: Where am I? Joe: You’re on the other train. I pulse with guilt …
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Identity theft
I am horrified to admit how often I get an email that says my password was a part of a data leak or that someone tried to login into my everything, someone requested a password …
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She walks
I watch a video of my daughter taking some of her first steps towards her babysitter, not me, it should be me, yes I WAS there to see her few first tiny ones, but now …
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My Peloton
I took my first LIVE IN PERSON peloton class yesterday, also my first in person fitness anything since 2019. I’ve been taking them on my bike in my garage since the pandemic but a REAL …
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where they are
One minute I’m walking to rehearsal and I feel my feet on planet earth and it’s one foot in front of the other, a leisurely point three miles downtown, twelve minutes door to door, but …