Don't be so boring

Found Via Matt J

Don't make Boring Theatre--

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2007/mar/21/features11.g2

What is commercial?

From Daniel Kuney: "At the end of the day, I think producers, like Mr. Rudin, and artists, like Duncan Sheik and Lin-Manuel Miranda, achieve success by pursuing their own visions, and not by trying to conform to someone else’s idea of what makes a good movie or musical. For those of you who are sitting down at the piano for the first time or who are contemplating a career as a producer, I would encourage you to do the same."

New York Theatre Review

Event May 6.  I have a short play in the book and in the event, I think.

NYTR events are always a lot of fun.

Mark your calendar.

http://www.bowerypoetry.com/#Event/71093

Flux event

Poetic Larceny ...because inspiration is the sincerest form of larceny... A play reading series where playwrights steal three things from the playwright before them, only to have three things stolen from them by the next shifty scribe. A staged reading series inspired by the themes of our Spring production of Adam Szymkowicz's Pretty Theft. $10 Tickets for Pretty Theft available at the door of the April 6th Poetic Larceny! Or use the code Larceny1 for tickets online here. This limited time offer is good for the 1st week of performances, opening excluded. Poetic Larceny The dates: Mondays, April 6th and 13th at 7PM At Primary Stages Studio A, 307 West 38th Street, Suite 1510 And Mondays, May 4th and 11th at 7PM At Access Theater's Gallery, 380 Broadway, 4th Floor $5 suggested donation The playwrights: Rob Ackerman, Johnna Adams, Bianca Bagatourian, Jeremy Basescu, Erin Browne, Chad Beckim, Bekah Brunstetter, Katherine Burger, James Comtois, Corey Ann Haydu, David Ian Lee, Jeff Lewonczyk, August Schulenburg, Crystal Skillman, Isaiah Tanenbaum The directors: Michael Davis, Jessi D. Hill, Kate Marks, Kelly O'Donnell The actors: Ryan Andes, Havilah Brewster, Tiffany Clementi, Nick Gallegos, Mariam Habib, Ian Heitzman, Kitty Lindsay, Elise Link, Nick Monroy, Matthew Murumba, Gretchen Poulos, Carolyn Ratteray, Isaiah Tanebaum, Daren Taylor, Gregory Waller, Shannon Michael Wamser, Anthony Willis Jr., DeWanda Wise, Cotton Wright, Travis York More information here on the Flux Blog.

Rebeck on plot

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-ca-theresa-rebeck29-2009mar29,0,2065069.story

coming soon

Matt Freeman and I do a podcast at nytheatre.com

http://www.nytheatre-i.com/2009/03/some-nyte-good-news-updates.html

new monologue books for actors and those who like monolgues

I have one monologue in each of these books. They are both from Food For Fish. So if you wanted, you could just read Food For Fish, but then you would miss out on the other cool monologues contained within. There are some heavy hitters in these books, including many people that you or I may know personally. See below: Women: And Her Hair Went With Her (2), Zina Camblin And We All Wore Leather Pants, Robert Attenweiler Beauty of the Father, Nilo Cruz The Beebo Brinker Chronicles (2), Kate Moira Ryan and Linda S. Chapman Boats on a River, Julie Marie Myatt A Body of Water, Lee Blessing Boom (3), Peter Sinn Nachtrieb The Butcher of Baraboo, Marisa Wegrzyn Christmas Belles, Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten Chronicles Simpkins Will Cut Your Ass Off, Rolin Jones The Conscientious Objector, Michael Murphy Custody of the Eyes (2), Anthony Giardina The Drunken City (3), Adam Bock Earthquake Chica, Anne Garcia-Romero Eat the Runt, Avery Crozier Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue, Quiara Alegria Hudes Fall Forward, Daniel Reitz Food for Fish, Adam Szymkowicz Fuck Tori Amos, Caitlyn Montanye Parrish Giftbox (2), Francine Volpe God's Ear (2), Jenny Schwartz Great Falls, Lee Blessing Guardians (2), Peter Morris The Hopper Collection, Mat Smart Hunting and Gathering (2), Brooke Berman In Our Name, Elena Hartwell In the Shadow of My Son, Nadine Bernard Joy, John Fisher Love-Lies-Bleeding, Don DeLillo Marvelous Shrine, Leslie Bramm Mauritius, Theresa Rebeck Men of Steel, Qui Nguyen Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom, Jennifer Haley None of the Above, Jenny Lyn Bader 100 Saints You Should Know (2), Kate Fodor Property, Rosary O'Neill Regrets Only (2), Paul Rudnick School of the Americas, Jose Rivera A Small, Melodramatic Story, Stephen Belber Smoke and Mirrors (2), Joseph Goodrich Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven, Young Jean Lee Spain, Jim Knabel Tea, Valina Hasu Houston tempOdyssey, Dan Dietz This Beautiful City, Steven Cosson and Jim Lewis Unconditional, Brett C. Leonard Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter, Julie Marie Myatt What Shall I Do For Pretty Girls?, Don Nigro When The Messenger Is Hot, Marisa Wegrzyn White People, JT Rogers Men: The Actor, Horton Foote Adopt a Sailor (3), Charles Evered Boats on a River, Julie Marie Myatt Cagelove, Christopher Denham The Conscientious Objector (2), Michael Murphy Darwin in Malibu, Crispin Whittell Digging Eleven, Kia Corthron Down and Dirty, Lee Blessing Eagle Hills, Eagle Ridge, Eagle Landing, Brett Neveu Echoes of Another Man, Mia McCullough The Emperor of Ice Cream; or, Thirteen Ways of Looking at Donald Rumsfeld, Matt Moses Fall Forward, Daniel Reitz Food for Fish, Adam Szymkowicz The Four of Us (3), Itamar Moses Gary, Melinda Lopez November (2), David Mamet Good, Clean Fun (2), Lee Blessing Great Falls, Lee Blessing Hunting and Gathering, Brooke Berman The Last Good Moment of Lily Baker, Russell Davis Massacre (Sing to Your Children) , Jose Rivera Mauritius, Theresa Rebeck Men of Steel (2), Qui Nguyen 100 Saints You Should Know, Kate Fodor On the Line (2), Joe Roland Property (2), Rosary O'Neill Rats, Ron Fitzgerald The Rules of Charity (2), John Belluso School of the Americas, Jose Rivera Screw Machine/Eye Candy, CJ Hopkins Songs of the Dragon Flying to Heaven, Young Jean Lee Spain (2), Jim Knabel The Sunset LTD, Cormac McCarthy The Thirteenth of Paris, Mat Smart This Beautiful City, Steven Cosson and Jim Lewis Unconditional, Brett C. Leonard Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter, Julie Marie Myatt White People, JT Rogers Willy's Cut and Shine, Michael Bradford Wittenberg (2), David Davalos Yemaya's Belly, Quiara Alegria Hudes

PT

Last Chance for 1/2 Price Tix to Pretty Theft Offer expires this Sunday March 29th at midnight, so buy now! Use the code PICKPOCKET for $9 tickets the 1st week of performances (opening excluded) Preview: Thurs, April 23rd, 8PM Opening: Friday, April 24th, 8PM Pretty Theft runs Thurs-Sat at 8PM And Sun at 7PM From April 23rd - May 17th Patron's Night with Pre-show Reception Sat, May 2nd! Access Theater's Gallery 380 Broadway, 4th Floor New York, New York 10013 2 blocks south of Canal St N,R,Q,W or 6 trains to Canal St Flux's 2009/10 season begins with Adam Szymkowicz's Pretty Theft, a play about ballerinas, boxes and the dangers of beauty. After losing her father, Allegra falls under the wing of bad girl Suzy, only to find an unexpected friendship with Joe, an autistic savant. When things between them take a violent turn, Allegra and Suzy escape cross country and befriend Marco, a mysterious thief who claims he cannot be caught.

Ken of the Producer's Perspective publishes his 1st year of blogging as a book

http://www.theproducersperspective.com/my_weblog/2009/03/kindle-or-not-books-will-never-go-out-of-style-so-i-published-one.html

evolution of a one-man show

I wrote this one person (one dog actually) show called Bee Eater while I was at Juilliard. I thought it was 40 minutes long and I kept trying to write short 20 min or so one person shows to go before or after it. I wrote two of these and attempted another before scrapping it. We put up Bee Eater for a couple of nights in Minneapolis and I can tell you it's actually 50 minutes long. (I had two 10 min pieces go on before it) While rehearsing Bee Eater I came up with another idea-- a short one person piece to go after it played by the same actor and I think it's the right one this time. I finished writing it today. It'll still have to be tested but I think it brings out the things that people are glossing over in Bee Eater and hopefully does so in a cool way. I'll have to see. I wrote Pretty Theft in '04 sometime and it's finally being done in nyc this April. Who know how long this play will take to go up. Could be next year, could be five years from now or ten. In any case I can add it to my list of my plays I want to see produced. That list is getting longer. And as I sit here, having just finished a new play all I can think of is that I better start another one soon.