new

Please welcome novelist, playwright, screenwriter and creator of the playwrightbinge, Patrick Gabridge, to the blogosphere. http://writinglife3.blogspot.com/

I'm doing this project and I just saw it online which
means i better get going on it.

http://www.fracturedatlas.org/site/marketing/release/261

photos from the dante benefit

You may notice i am conspicuously (or not so
conspicuously) absent

http://broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=17023

I have a short play here on Friday

in case you didn't know

Jon Bon Jovi is a great actor. He nailed his scenes
in my short play last night.

I mean we all know Steve Buscemi is a genius. That's
a given and Jena Malone and Jamie-Lynn Sigler were
both fantastic but the surprise for me was Bon Jovi
who it appears is much more than a rockstar.

Other highlights of the night included a hilarious
Steve Schirripa as auctioneer, Sam Rockwell and Aidan
Quinn wailing on each other and Juliana Margulies
putting them in their place and a heartfelt and
stirring speech by John Voight about the importance of
live theatre.

All in all it was a fantastic night and I hope Studio
Dante will be around for a long time and if last night
is any indication, it surely will be.

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/106705.html

coming soon

My friends Larry and Jake are working on this:

http://www.guyadrift.com/

oh, spidey

As part of research for a play I'm going to write, I have begun reading comic books. I went to the comic book and graphic novel store on Court yesterday and spent way too much money. As a kid I sometimes read my father's old comic books--mostly Donald Duck and Archie and old school Disney stuff and when I did buy new ones, which was not often, I never really read the superhero ones. I only read the funny ones (or the ones that were trying to be funny anyhow). Reading the Marvel comics and others for the first time, I finally get it. the stuff is like candy. I finish one and want to start another. I didn't buy more than one of a series and so I get hooked on the art and the plot and then it's over and I move on to the next and get hooked on that story line. The colors and the action are amazing. I had no idea I was someone who liked comic books.

political theater

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/24/nyregion/24drama.html?bl&ex=1175054400&en=3a196f9643323327&ei=5087%0A

"But even as 15 student actors were polishing the
script and perfecting their accents for a planned
April performance, the school principal last week
canceled the play, titled "Voices in Conflict," citing
questions of political balance and context."

wow

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/25/nyregion/25infiltrate.html?pagewanted=1&bl&ei=5087%0A&en=3a196f9643323327&ex=1175054400

on the West Coast

Coming the End of April to LA, Food For Fish

http://www.myspace.com/food_for_fish

http://www.theatreofnote.com/