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5 things to hate about being a playwright 1. Rejection letters from people who feel compelled to give a fake reason why they aren’t doing your play when the real reason is they are doing Neil Labute’s play instead. 2. Reviews that have the power to set your career back five years. 3. The impossibility of making a living writing for the theater. 4. The waiting. 5. Other people’s fear. 4 things to love about being a playwright 1. Post show beers with talented actors. 2. The sound of people laughing because of your play. 3. The electric buzz in a darkened theater caused by something breathtaking that inspires you to create something beautiful yourself. 4. The joy of writing down what the voices say.

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Jennifer Elise Cox and Marin Hinkle in Adam Szymkowicz' Incendiary, SCR's 100th NewSCRipts reading.

SEE THIS PLAY

Come see Departures this week and enjoy a special discount:

$12 Tickets (Regular price: $18) ...plus free wine or beer for AEA members!

Blue Coyote Theater Group Presents:

Departures
By Kristen Palmer

Directed by Kyle Ancowitz
Cara is an American ex-pat living in Britain who decides to return to the US after three years abroad. But with the death of her father and loss of her childhood home, what is she returning home to? Complicating things further is the boyfriend who refuses to let go. DEPARTURES is a touching two hander starring Keira Keeley (from Adam Bock's Obie-winning play, THE THUGS) and Travis York (from Anne Washburn's THE INTERNATIONALIST) that crosses time zones and continents to explore questions of family, home, and homelessness.

Featuring Keira Keeley* and Travis York*

Set Design: Kerry Chipman

Lighting Design: Daniel Meeker

Production Stage Manager: Susan J. Sunday

Thursday-Sunday, October 4-28 , 2007
At the Access Theater Gallery
All performances at 8pm.

For more information, visit: Blue Coyote Theater Group
Tickets here or (212) 868-4444.

*These actors are are appearing courtesy of Actors' Equity Association.

Matty Freeman recommends

last night

I had a roundtable reading at MCC last night of Herbie in preparation for my November reading at the NY Performing Arts Library. It went really well and also looks like I need to do a bit of work. Amazing actors though. Thank you all!

ny times today, America tomorrow

"You may think Guantánamo Bay is a prison camp in Cuba for Al Qaeda terrorists. A lot of the world thinks it’s a place we send visitors who don’t give the right answers at immigration. I will not vote for any candidate who is not committed to dismantling Guantánamo Bay and replacing it with a free field hospital for poor Cubans. Guantánamo Bay is the anti-Statue of Liberty."

my friends just started this website about cocktails.

http://www.cocktailbuzz.com/

from Crooks and Liars "Saddam Wanted Out, Bush Lied About It"

. . .now we are finding out that the entire war could have been averted for letting him get away with $1 billion. That’s just than one tenth of 1% of what this insane invasion and occupation of Iraq, that continues claim the lives of our country’s bravest men and women, has now been forcast to cost. Think about that just for a second. Every single death, Iraqi and American coalition alike, could have been saved and Bush could have had Saddam’s oil, but apparently he didn’t even seriously consider it. Topping that, he then lied in public to the entire world about it just so he could have his war regardless. How’s that for compassionate conservatism? h/t Joshua

sunday

If you are free sunday, free wine, theatre and food.

http://www.mcctheater.com/Literary%20Folder/Readings.htm

and

http://aszym.blogspot.com/2007/09/from-mcc-this-sunday.html

bait and switch or why talk about the issues?

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/9/26/225845/285

Hear Bill Clinton talk about the Senate vote on whether or not to
condemn the Move On Ad, General Betray Us.

h/t Joshua

http://writerjoshuajames.com/dailydojo/

because you need to know

Bog Face Post of note

from apple: "Then there was his trashing of Lucy Thurber's Scarcity, which seemed to suggest that brutality in the "underbrush of American culture" makes for compelling drama coming from Sam Shepard, Tracy Letts, or Martin McDonagh but just spells "Ick" when written by a woman. I haven't yet seen Scarcity (though someone very dear to me, a man, came home raving about brilliant it was) so maybe he's right, maybe it's unconvincing, but the tone of the review, holy crap, it's just dripping with condescension."

read some Durang, prevent a US attack on Iran

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-durang/beware-kyllieberman-pro_b_65797.html

12 dollar tix for first week of departures

http://www.smarttix.com/show.aspx?showCode=DEP

Bush and Upholding Human Rights

http://commonsense.ourfuture.org/george_bushs_devotion_human_rights

h/t isaac

http://parabasis.typepad.com/blog/

argh...Chicago makes me admit to lameness

I've been meme tagged again. this time by Paul (or Adam or Bries apparently) http://prekk.blogspot.com/ for a meme written by Marisa http://chainsawcalligraphy.blogspot.com/ List 5 things that certain people (who are not deserving of being your friend anyway) may consider to be "totally lame," but you are, despite the possible stigma, totally proud of. Own it. Tag 5 others: 1. I'm an Eagle Scout. enough said. 2. I don't deal well with blood. I sometimes faint (or vomit) after blood is taken from me and sometimes I can't watch blood being taken from other people or pets. 3. in 8th grade, me and another white kid did a production of a David Henry Hwang play in which we were supposed to be Chinese railroad workers. 4. I own a binding machine. 5. After talking to someone for a little while I can guess (9 times out of 10 correctly) if they are an only child, youngest, oldest etc. oh...tagging people. Freeman, Johnna, Ruben, Malachy, Callaghan