I don't share every review of The Love of Three Oranges because there are just too many of them but, every now and then, one catches my eye and this one by Margaret McNamara may be my new favorite. It's just peppered with jokes and references from the show and is a...
Back in this post, I mused about the nature of sequels in the theatre and when, if ever, do they work. Believe it or not, this wasn't just a random rant. It’s actually something I've been struggling with several years now. See, in my play, The Love of Three Oranges,...
Someone brought this great review of The Love of Three Oranges to my attention and, while the whole thing is both raving and well written, I especially loved the last line from the reviewer: "The Episcopal Academy Domino Club proved that audiences shouldn't approach...
I’m not going to lie to you guys, I wrote a sequel to Guys and Dolls in high school. It will never see the light of day because it’s terrible but I wrote it because I wanted to see more of those characters and see where they ended up after the curtain fell. I guess...
When I was very little, my mother was trying to take a nap and I wanted her to play with me. She tried to explain to me that she was very tired and needed some rest and I stood in the doorway of her bedroom and responded, "You can sleep when you're in heaven." She...
Back on April 12th, Long Suffering Husband came home sick. Four days later, I had it. It was one of those really cruddy head/chest colds. We were both completely miserable, coughing, junk in our lungs, stuffed nose, stuffed head, etc. I couldn't take any medicine for...
Back in March, I mentioned that I was going to use the April Camp NaNoWriMo as a replacement for Script Frenzy. This was a slightly insane plan as I was having enough trouble getting through my day job and, say, putting on pants while being at the beck and call of the...
Today, April 23rd, back in 1616 was the day that famed playwright William Shakespeare died.* To celebrate, here's the famed Fakespeare scene from The Love of Three Oranges. CREONTA: Rope! My rope! Hang those two thieves by the neck until they are dead. THE ROPE:...
I don't normally do cross-overs like this but I wanted to add something to this post from The Whine Seller: How do you do your To Do (list)? To recap, it's a post about how I use electronic To Do lists for big projects but I keep my daily To Dos on a good old...
Today is March 29th. It is also Good Friday. The last time Good Friday fell on March 29th was 2002. I was a senior in college. Many of our friends had gone home for the holiday weekend but three of my best friends were still on campus: Katie, Neal and Steve. We...
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