Oct 6, 2008 | Shakespeare - Theatre
This Friday opens my most recent project: a modern-dress Romeo & Juliet at Eastern Michigan University's Quirk Theater. The cast is wonderful, moreso because it's the first time in many years that my Juliet, Romeo, and the boys have been age-appropriate...
Jul 23, 2008 | Publishing - Shakespeare - Theatre
A few months back, I posted a chapter of a novel I had started and put in a drawer to focus on the new Roman one. Well, the Roman one is progressing, but there are other projects looming. One of them is the launch of the Shanghai Low Theatricals...
Jun 13, 2008 | Books - Film & Television - Publishing - Shakespeare - Theatre - Writing
I have been quite silent of late. Life is busy, and there are two new writing projects (or three, depending on how you count them) and one theatre project that I am being a trifle circumspect in mentioning. Why? Because until I have a contract in hand, I don't...
Apr 30, 2008 | Film & Television - Shakespeare
I get a lot of hits by people Googling "Muppet Shakespeare", thanks to my two casting calls for MUPPET ADO ABOUT NOTHING and MUPPET KING LEAR. For those people, I now present this. (I got this thanks to the ever-amazing Shakespeare Geek, but rather than link...
Apr 19, 2008 | Shakespeare
Of all the various seach terms that bring people to this site, there are two that are dominant. 1) Capulet-Montague feud; and 2) Tomorrow and tomorrow. The first is rather obvious – I’ve written a novel about the cause of the Capulet-Montague feud in Romeo...
Mar 12, 2008 | Books - Cut Scenes - Shakespeare - Theatre
I don’t want to say too much about this project, as it’s something I’ll probably get back to at a later date, though perhaps in a very different form. But William Shakespeare’s "lost years are a continuing source of puzzlement, so I...
