I found out last night that I won’t be playing Vanya in Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. At least not any time soon. Not only did I not get the part — I didn’t even get a callback. Talk about adding insult to injury. Oh well. I’ll be honest. It stung. It always…
Last night we had our first read through for Things I Know to be True by Andrew Bovell. I like having the read through. There’s no pressure. The cast just reads the lines of the script. It’s the last time that the play will be just the playwright’s. Starting with our next rehearsal, we will…
We opened our play Burn last night. After weeks of rehearsals. It’s funny because the audience is such an important ingredient to any show. They provide the extra something. We put on the play for them, but they give us their attention. And that commerce of sorts results in an energy. And that energy affects…
This happened last Fall. I was in a play and my choir had a concert. At the same time. Fortunately, I was able to perform in all the play and choir dates. And it’s happening again. I’m in another play. Burn at the Player’s Guild. We open on May 31. And my choir has their…
At the end of February, my friend Lisa contacted me to see if I was interested in joining a play she was in. The person cast as her husband had dropped out and rehearsals were about to start. I said sure. I didn’t realize it at the time, but it had been five years since…
“It’s the good advice, that you just didn’t take And who would’ve thought it figures?” Alanis Morrissette A year ago, my brother suggested that I make a Kindle version of my book Laund-o-mat at the End of the World. (The typo in the title is deliberate.) It’s a collection of three of my one-act…
Next week, Theatre Aquarius puts on its Reading Week. The artists in the various programs that Theatre Aquarius supports during the theatre season will get a chance to present an excerpt from the piece that they’ve been working on. My turn is on Wednesday (June 19). It’s always good to get your work in front…
When I tell people that I visualize, some of them give me a skeptical glance. I think many people associate the concept of visualization as some kind of hocus pocus that people employ with The Law of Attraction. You visualize something that you want to happen and miraculously it happens. I haven’t tried that kind…
Is there such a thing as talent? Does it exist? The more I think about it, the less likely I think it is. There’s definitely skill acquisition, but I think talent is a myth. I think we call people talented because we see the result of their hard work and perseverance. And because we see…
A couple of years after Deb and I got married, we were living at my Grandmother’s house because my Grandfather had passed away. My aunts had made the suggestion because it would give Deb and me the ability to live rent free and my Grandmother wouldn’t have to make any major life decisions right away…
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