Today there are not one but two openings of my play Around the World in 80 Days. The first one (it being on eastern time) is at The Hangar Theatre in Ithaca, NY. My good friend, Mark Shanahan, who directed the recent World Premiere of my play Tom Jones at the Florida Studio Theatre in Sarasota, FL is reprising his role of Phileas Fogg. Mark was previously in a production at the Westport Country Playhouse and was terrific. The second [...]
There's a nice article in the Sarasota Herald Tribune about the coming world premiere of my new play Tom Jones. Here's what director Mark Shanahan has to say about me: “When you’re doing a Mark Brown play, you have to understand anarchy. He takes the form of the theater and rips it apart at the seams and rebuilds it." Thank you, Mark, for making my pants seem fancy, even though my pants are merely a place for seltzer to go [...]
My new play, Tom Jones, will get its world premiere at the Florida Studio Theatre in Sarasota, FL this spring! I've been waiting for the official press release to come out before I said anything and lo and behold it appeared in the Sarasota Herald Tribune today. I'm thrilled and nervous (my perpetual state of mind, minus the thrilled) to have a new play hit the stage. And I'm very excited that Florida Studio Theatre is doing the world premiere. FST produced Around the [...]
I was commissioned to write a musical adaptation of the novel Tom Jones. Trying to schedule work time with my musical writing partner, Paul Mirkovich, has been tricky. Paul is the musical director of the TV show The Voice and his work schedule is insane. House elves have easier schedules (Ooo, Harry Potter reference geek alert). I'm hoping we'll have the music done by the end of the summer. In the meantime, I took the book for the musical and [...]
