Jul 11, 2021 | Film & Television - History - Theatre
I think I’m a bad party guest. Last night I attended my first post-vaccinated dinner party. It was the birthday of one of my wife’s high school friends, so it was mostly people I’d never met. Like you do, conversation seeks common ground, and at one...
Nov 9, 2017 | Shakespeare - Theatre
While I've been at work finishing new novels and recording audiobooks, I haven't been blogging a lot. Fall is always a madhouse for me, with tons of work to catch up on. Part of the reason is that each summer my life is consumed by Shakespeare as I return,...
Nov 8, 2017 | Books - Publishing - Shakespeare - Theatre - Writing
Five years ago I released an ebook collection of essays on Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet entitled ORIGIN OF THE FEUD. Basically promotion for the Star-Cross'd series, they were all pieces I'd written prior to then. I didn't expect to be...
Jun 6, 2017 | Books - Shakespeare - The Novel - Theatre
Eight years after I started the novel, five years after it was published, four years since it was proposed as a play, two years after contracts were signed, one year since the first draft of the script was complete, nine months after auditions, six weeks after...
May 26, 2017 | Books - Shakespeare - The Novel - Theatre
Hey! I know, it’s been awhile. I tend to go quiet while in the weeds of new projects, and for the last six months I’ve been immersed in several. The big news: I just finished the first draft of a new novel (still secret – sorry!). I was also invited...
Feb 16, 2017 | Current Affairs - Theatre
Before the National Endowment for the Arts, there was the WPA, the Works Progress Administration, which supported the rise of visual artists such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Mark Rothko, Arshile Gorky, Philip Guston, Thomas Hart Benton and...
