great post by Malachy

http://litdept.blogspot.com/2007/06/is-this-right-way-to-market-arts-not.html

It's over, but

Jordon Harrison's play at Clubbed Thumb was pretty
great. If you missed it, there is always the hope
Clubbed Thumb or someone else will pick it up again.
In the meantime, perhaps now is a good time to buy tix
for his upcoming show at Playwrights Horizons.

monologue cut from Susan Gets Some Play

Susan. They said she had the face that launched one
hundred thousand battleships to the galaxy Thendore.
Her name was Lieutenant Susan Louise O'Connor and the
first time I saw her I knew why this war had been
raging through the galaxy for a thousand years. You
see, when Kinglores see something beautiful, they have
to have it and when they first saw Susan, anyone could
have predicted that it would tear their race apart and
destroy countless planets, disrupt the universal
balance and kill many a young hotshot fresh-faced from
the Star Hopper Academy for Advanced Life. There was
just no other way it could have played out. Also
there was no way to avoid the fact that I too would
fall under her charms, like it or not, I was hooked.
It was the face she had. The face that tore the
universe apart and had grown men armwrestling and
partaking in fluevogeling contests.

you myspace?

be my next show's friend

http://www.myspace.com/susangetssomeplay

Yes men pull a Swift

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/6/14/214445/536

enrique's new pimped out blog

http://backdatassupenrique.blogspot.com/

a book

http://books.google.com/books?q=%22adam+szymkowicz%22&btnG=Search+Books

tomorrow at 5--hope to see you there

http://www.dramabookshop.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp?s=storeevents&eventId=348208

Friday, June 15, 2007 at 5:00 p.m.
Free Reading and Book Signing
New York Theater Review 2007

Special guests to include: Quiara Alegria Hudes (2007
Pulitzer Prize finalist for ELLIOT, A SOLDIER'S
FUGUE); Adam Szymkowicz (FOOD FOR FISH); Anne Washburn
(I HAVE LOVED STRANGERS);

and

George Hunka (Superfluities theater blog); Garrett
Eisler (Playgoer theater blog); Alan Lockwood (Beckett
centenary) and Caridad Svich (playwright and
founder/maestra of NoPassport)

post of note from Grote

http://jasongrote.blogspot.com/2007/06/whither-theatre.html

"Of course, part of the paradox here is that critics
lament the lack of originality among playwrights, but
producers, ever risk-averse, push playwrights to
follow the "rules" more closely, making otherwise
original writers into something more familiar - that,
or they pick up a writer anyway because s/he is "hot,"
and and then screw up somewhere along the line - they
don't prepare their audiences enough, or the fire the
good, smart original casts and replace them with
slumming stars who can't handle the material, then
it's a self-fulfilling flop so they go with something
more traditional, and the cycle continues."

from an email I received from Enrique

So I'm not one for sending mass emails out for
fundraising, but playwright Marisela Orta made me
aware of this teacher in Queens who is trying to build
a theatre library for her students. She teaches in a
low income public school where the arts are severely
neglected and is trying very hard to teach the
importance and relevance of theatre to these kids. I
went online and donated $10. Now, you don't have to
donate anything, but I just did the math:

If every playwright I sent this to donated $3, this
school would meet their funding request for a theatre
library. Many of us piddle $3 on a coffee any given
day. Why not help me help these kids. We're always
complaining that there's no young people in the
theatre. This is a great way to help change that in
such a small way. And how cool would it be for this
school to have a brand new play library because of a
bunch of scrappy playwrights?!

Here's the info:

http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=92400&sindex=0

Here's to teachers who care about theatre!

--
Enrique Urueta
Playwright/Dramaturg/Private Dancer
(a dancer for money)