another play you should know

Everything Will Be Different: A Brief History of Helen of Troy by Mark Schultz

come see it

Incendiary
By Adam Szymkowicz
Directed by Kip Fagan

Apr 30 at 7:00PM
at Ars Nova
511 West 54th Street, just west of 10th Avenue

The event is free but rsvp's are a must. Rsvp at
rsvp @ arsnovanyc.com

Incendiary is the comic tale of a combustible group of
people. Elise is a pyromaniac fire chief. Jake is the
police detective investigating her fires. Carrie is a
therapist who's trying to get a client to quit some
truly destructive behavior, and Gary is leading the
life of a somewhat ineffective corporate spy. As the
smoke begins to billow and the sparks begin to fly,
they're all about to find out that love is the most
incendiary thing.

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SEATTLE, one more week of Pretty Theft

LA, Food For Fish starts next week

from monologist Mike Daisey on his show in Cambridge

Last night's performance of INVINCIBLE SUMMER was
disrupted when eighty seven members of a Christian
group walked out of the show en masse, and chose to
physically attack my work by pouring water on and
destroying the original of the show outline.

If you'd like the full story, it's at the top of my
site:

http://mikedaisey.com/

md

Theatreforte

Check this out (if you haven't already)

Pretty much all the theatre blogs around organized by
location (although they believe Travis is writing from
Texas)

http://www.avltheatre.com/forte/

shows to see

go see a Guy Adrift

http://www.theatermania.com/content/show.cfm/show/131140

and Suburban Peepshow

http://www.theatermania.com/content/show.cfm/show/131444

please sign this petition. It will only take a
minute. Stop Time Warner from crushing the little
guy.

http://action.freepress.net//campaign/postal

hack hack, sniffle

I am home sick so I did not see the Pulitzer
announcement as I did last year, however was still
aware of what time it was being announced because it
took place in the building I work in.

Got two rejection letters. they were both very nice
rejection letters. the kind you want to get if you
are going to be rejected. I'm getting a lot of these
lately. It's both encouraging and discouraging. I
was swearing to give up playwriting forever and then
immediately sitting down to work on my new play--both
in a dayquil haze.

It's so hard. Why is it so hard?

Pulitzer

Winner is Rabbit Hole.

http://www.pulitzer.org/

Matt Wells

blogger looking to revitalize LA theatre and create a
new RAT/national indie theatre collective.

http://needtheater.blogspot.com/

you tube advert for food for fish

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3Rv3oCAocQ

coming soon 1 and 2

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2

I don't want to live in a celebrity culture

Sometimes I can't stand it.

When will it be over?

the list

thanks to Daisey for the link

http://www.mikedaisey.com/

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/04/10/treasury_depts_250pa.html

"The list is 250 pages long. If you do business with a
person on the list, you can pay $10 million in fines
and go to jail for 30 years. "Doing business" can be
as simple as selling one of those people a sandwich.
Not an anthrax sandwich -- like a roast beef on rye. "

four chairs play opens today

http://www.theatermania.com/content/show.cfm/show/131140

Class

At a union meeting yesterday we were to ratify the
agreement the union and university made (I'm an office
worker at a university). I haven't had an increase in
pay since October 2005. I will be getting an increase
finally and it will be retroactive to Feb of this
year. But it's 3 percent. Looking at the schedule
for the next five years according to the agreement,
there is no way we will ever get ahead of inflation.

I mean part of the reason I have this job is to pay
off student loans. It's not a job I have because I
love my work--it's a job for the money. And as jobs
for the money, it sucks, quite frankly.

I am able to pay the monthly installment on my huge
loans and buy food and see occasional plays but I have
nothing left over. I am breaking even. The only
money I have been able to save was the small amount
I'm making from royalties.

So that's my life right now. How are you?