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So that thing I wasn't sure if I was going to mention that I was so excited about was that I got into the MCC Playwrights Coalition. Apparently they are graduating some of their members and taking on some new members of which I am one. I find this incredibly exciting because 4 years ago I interned at MCC and I got to hang out with the Coalition and they were incredibly nice and amazingly talented and I must say I feel truly honored to be among their number now. I've already set up two table reads. I plan to make good use of their developmental help.

Indie Theater Fall Preview

http://www.indietheater.org/preview.htm

Check out the Blue Coyote. They just started rehearsals. Travis York is in it.

crazy mo fos in the white house at it again

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/georgepacker/2007/08/if-there-were-a.html

h/t freeman

http://matthewfreeman.blogspot.com/

brightly colored and ready for purchase

me and K this weekend past

http://www.lifemagical.com/index.php?c=1571

photo by minwin

another member of the theatrospehere

have you seen tlaloc?

http://tlalocnyc.blogspot.com/

welcome to the theatrosphere

director Andrew Utter

http://sfacting.blogspot.com/

and playwright Ruben Carbajal

http://reachruben.blogspot.com/

The realization of the satire of Catch 22

http://alternet.org/waroniraq/60950/

h/t grote

http://jasongrote.blogspot.com/

Iraq where "private companies are guaranteed huge profits no matter how badly they fuck things up."

This article is truly shocking. I didn't realize the extent that the US government is actively giving away money to unqualified people who are not doing the work they are hired to do and are merely ripping us off. Meanwhile whenever someone tries to hold these companies and individuals accountable, this person is threatened or demoted and Bush steps in to prevent the private companies from being accountable for their fraud.

November 5 at the NY Public Library for The Performing Arts

Reading of my play Herbie

http://www.nypl.org/research/calendar/eventdesc.cfm?id=3408

Sept 2 in Chicago

Reading of my play Open Minds

http://www.browncouchtheatre.org/index2.htm

In April in Wisconsin,

my play Deflowering Waldo

http://www.overourheadplayers.org/PR.asp?id=20070806a

this morning

I finished the screenplay or the first draft anyway.

more on the showcase code

http://www.villagevoice.com/theater/0735,eisler,77610,11.html

SGSP and our practices

a blog post from the reviewer we called up to the stage about being called up:

http://www.indietheater.org/blogmc/archives/47

from David Cote

http://histriomastix.typepad.com/weblog/2007/08/art-for-critics.html I can’t wait to see Letts’ play. But wait, what’s this Charles Isherwood wrote in the Times on August 13, 2007… After comparing the play’s pill-popping, bile-spewing matriarch to Albee’s Martha, O’Neill’s Mary Tyrone and Williams’ Amanda Wingfield, he puts on the brakes toward the end of an otherwise enthusiastic review. After a few good strokes of the chin, quoth The Ish: Mr. Letts is as yet more a skillful entertainer than a true visionary or a dramatic poet. August: Osage County is a ripsnorter full of blistering, funny dialogue, acid-etched characterizations and scenes of no-holds-barred emotional combat, but I would not say it possesses the penetrating truth or the revelatory originality of a fully achieved work of art. Spoken like a true cultural arbiter. Still, let’s pause and rescan. The play “does not possess the penetrating truth or revelatory originality of a fully achieved work of art.” Really? So…it’s not art? Is it at least a fully achieved piece of entertainment? What is the difference? If, in 50 years, no one has written a large-scale family drama that is better than A:OC, will it be upgraded to the ranks of fully-achieved art (FAWA)? Is Isherwood speaking as a newspaper reviewer of 2007 or a cultural commissar from the distant future? Where does he park his time machine?