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Playwrights on Censorship: June 23, 2010

2010-06-25T12:01:05-04:00

Wish I had the time to give a detailed account of the wonderful conversation I helped facilitate this Wednesday night at Jane Friedman's lovely home on Sutton Place. I was invited by the National Coalition Against Censorship to lead a...

2010-05-26T17:01:09-04:00

My review of Claudia Shear's smart and funny new play, RESTORATION, is n now up at NY1. Follow the link for text and video. http://www.ny1.com/content/ny1_living/theater_reviews/119312/time-out-theater-review---restoration-/

2010-05-25T11:17:46-04:00

Hello everyone! Sorry the blog posting has been so light here. If you want to see more frequent posts, be sure to check www.timeoutnewyork.com/upstaged and follow me on Facebook and Twitter.

2009-12-07T12:48:43-05:00

Just posted at the Guardian about my upcoming gig with Project Shaw: http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/theatreblog/2009/dec/07/theatre-critic-write-play

GONE FISHIN'

2009-08-20T13:13:43-04:00

Goodness knows I haven't been posting regularly in this space. What little blogging energy I have left over is devoted to work. However, for any lost souls who find their way here, be advised that for the next two weeks...

The Opera and Me: An Ongoing Affair

2009-07-17T08:43:54-04:00

In late 2003, Opera News contacted me to write a story on the Met's new production of Salome and an intense new interest was born. What little opera I had seen up to that point had left me with the...

Around the blogs: Sarah Palin and Ariane Mnouchkine

2009-07-06T12:40:32-04:00

Gee, those are two names you don’t often see in the same headline. Couple of blogs to pass the time on Monday: A preview/op-ed piece on the Guardian’s stage blog about Lincoln Center Festival and, for Time Out New York,...

My Opera Grows in Brooklyn - July 17

2009-07-01T13:06:55-04:00

What are you doing Friday night, July 17? Heading out to chic performance space-cum-bar Galapagos to hear my one-act opera, silly! Fade, the 30-minute opera I created last year with composer Stefan Weisman is getting its New York premiere in...

Blogging at the Guardian: Neil LaBute

2009-06-18T10:20:33-04:00

I have a new blog post up at the Guardian this morning about Neil LaBute and his supposed split with MCC Theater. Read it here. Playgoer speculates about the matter, which came to light on Tuesday after David Ng's blog...

WOULD YOU LIKE SOME HAM ON THAT?

2009-05-20T11:36:26-04:00

You may not know it, but between 1992 and 2000, I did a fair share of acting below 14th Street in some wacky experimental theater pieces. What I did as the Dramaturg in a heavily deconstructed and ubercamp version of...

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