Nellie Bly’s World – GIRLS OF THE WILD WEST
Girls of the Wild West Sunday, July 8, 1888 Nellie Bly Goes Down And Makes Friends With The Riders The Lassies of the Show Are Just Like Nice Girls Everywhere—Miss Hickok Has a Bridle Made from Hair Taken from Scalped Indians—How They Learned to Ride and Shoot Out...
Nellie Bly’s World – NELLIE BLY AT THE RACES!
Nellie Bly at the Races The New York World/July 8, 1894 The Women Enthusiasts Who Are Regular Visitors at the Big Tracks Every Day of the Season. How They Make Bets—Backing Horses on a System and as Well Posted on Jockeys and Records as Any of the Men—Scenes in the...
Romeo & Juliet: The Death Of Benvolio
If you wanted to throw a wrench into my theory about the cause of the Capulet-Montague feud in Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, one needs only point out that in the earliest version, Lady Montague does not, in fact, have the final death in the play. Benvolio does....
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Favorite Play – Part 1
As I perform and lecture and teach, one question comes up constantly: "What's your Shakespeare favorite play?" My answer is usually something like this: "As an overall fun play to perform, nothing beats MUCH ADO...
And we begin…
I've been holding off for months - literally, months - to roll out some announcements. The ink isn't on the paper yet, so I'm still trepidacious about talking, and don't really want to get anyone excited until there's a link on Amazon. But...
EVE OF IDES date change!
UPDATE - Due to a scheduling conflict on the part of one of the fantastic people at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, the reading is being postponed until early next year. Naturally, I am sad not to be headed to NJ this autumn, but I absolutely agree with the...
Smoky Elogy
An era has come to an end. Fifteen years ago this December, in a little outdoor market on a sloping hill in Aswan, Egypt, I traded 25 American dollars for a beautiful blue and silver hookah. The vender told me with great verve that the plastic hose was actually...
EVE OF IDES Reading at Shakespeare New Jersey!
I've been sitting on this particular piece of news for a couple weeks, but the official announcement went out today. My original Caesar/Brutus play, EVE OF IDES, has been chosen for a reading at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey this September, as part of...
Dash and Evie
It has been pointed out to me that I spend a lot more time updating my Facebook page for things my kids say than I do here. That's because while this is a place for news about my writing career, which proceeds at apace until the next play or book gets picked up,...
Happy New Year
Cheers, and welcome, welcome 2011! Though you've started off with a pair of body-blows (Chicago losing to Green Bay and, far worse, the loss of Pete Postlethwaite), we're happy to be ushering in a new year full of new projects - and many old ones coming to...
Donate to the MSF!
We're closing in on the end of the year, and while holidays and festivities are swirling in the air, now is the time for charity. With that in mind, I'd like to promote a worthy cause - the Michigan Shakespeare Festival. My history with the MSF goes...
THE FIRST MAN IN ROME – A Novel
While talking about all things Roman, I thought I'd share my own introduction to Rome. Before I'd gone there, before I'd read Suetonius or Plutarch or anyone else, I read this book - THE FIRST MAN IN ROME. (To be honest, I'd been forced to read...
Caesar & Brutus, Shakespeare & Shaw
Having spent the last two years researching and writing a novel set in the Roman world, I've naturally spent a great deal of time thinking about Julius Caesar. So it's no surprise that, of the many projects I've been noodling, the first one finished is a...
