I’m trying very hard to be present with Joe, and not think about the fact that critics are right now, in this very moment, at our show. Joe very badly wants me to draw a …
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cake: guilt
The important thing to note here is that MY BABY GIRL IS ONE, WHAT, what even is the passage of time, where did the days go, I guess we have just been living them? And …
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she’s 41, and her Daddy still calls her sweetie
This lyric in Tanya Tucker’s Delta Dawn has always really resonated with me, she’s 41 and her Daddy still calls her baby, maybe because my own Dad (never Daddy, okay?) still calls me sweetie, still …
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A scavenger hunt
When Morrison and I were on like our fourth date I drunkenly told him that he was going to someday be a very good Dad, and he’s been making fun of me for it ever …
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she went up
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 …