after the fact

photos of the cast from LA Pretty Theft reading

from Patrick

"Once you're a writer and have lots of writer friends, you know there are scads of talented people out there with great manuscripts that will never be widely read. The bullshit story told to beginning writers--if you write something great, it'll get published/produced/staged--is a fiction designed to keep the pipeline producing more work for the producers and publishers to choose from."
 

http://writinglife3.blogspot.com/2007/07/fame-and-legacy-and-art-courtesy-of.html

99 cent Sundays at soho rep!!!

Tickets to all Sunday Mainstage performances are 99¢
Available online or at the box office.

Some of my favorite shows in the past few years have been at Soho Rep.

Like these shows for example:






Take advantage of this amazing deal. And while you're there, take in some adjmi or two headed calf (both of which I reccomed highly) and the writer director lab always has some great stuff too. And Jenny Schwartz is the bomb!

Next year in New York theater is looking pretty great what with Playwrights Horizons and Second Stage. Anyone have a season roundup? What else is going on next year?

 

Study: Iraqis May Experience Sadness When Friends, Relatives Die

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/study_iraqis_may_experience?utm_source=EMTF_Onion

 

h/t Enrique

 

http://backdatassupenrique.blogspot.com/2007/07/oh-lovely-cebolla.html

http://www.myspace.com/susangetssomeplay

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070725/ap_on_fe_st/death_cat

from Hal's blog

http://halbrooks.blogspot.com/2007/07/nea-tcg.html

 

"When annie kaufmann won her obie this year, she thanked len jenkins, paula vogel and mac wellman for spawning a great new generation of playwrights. I concur. And now theaters are seeking out these new voices. Expect to see more works by sarah ruhl, will eno, ann washburn, sheila callaghan at the regional theater

It makes me curious - how will these writers adapt to the larger than downtown spaces? And the older more experienced and larger budgeted theaters: how will they adapt. "
 

politics and quotes

 

from Kevin Drum--  http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2007_07/011739.php

 

h/t isaac  http://parabasis.typepad.com/blog/2007/07/yes-yes-yes.html

 

"You have to give Republicans points for consistency. They bring the Senate to a halt and then blame Democrats for not getting anything done. They destroy FEMA's ability to respond to natural disasters and then hold it up as an example of why you can't trust government to do anything right. They lose a war via unparalleled military incompetence and then claim that liberals are defeatists for pointing it out. They spend 20 years claiming that Social Security is going bankrupt and then use the resulting public insecurity about Social Security as an explanation for why the whole system needs to be privatized."