Meadow Brook Theatre Goes Around the World Meadow Brook Theatre opened its season with my play Around the World in 80 Days. I'm always excited when a theatre decides to do one of my shows and I'm extra excited when it's the first show of the season. I pray fiercely that the show kicks off a successful season. Meadow Brook Theatre's season seems to be getting off on the right foot. A couple of reviews have come out and they're [...]
Dunkin Donuts Santa Monica When I first heard that Dunkin Donuts was coming to Santa Monica I did my happy donuts dance. I'm from the east coast and was weened on Dunkin Donuts. Of course I also come from a family of diabetics, but never mind that detail. Dunkin Donuts was coming to Santa Monica! The opening was insane. People slept out to be one of the first to get their hands on those glorious cake donuts. The first customer [...]
Around the World in 80 Days at Meadow Brook Theatre My play Around the World in 80 Days kicks off the 2014-15 season at the Meadow Brook Theatre this week. It's a Michigan premiere and runs from Oct 1 - Oct 26. The Detroit Free Press has named it Best of the Best for this upcoming weekend. I think this is one of the productions that put me in the Top 10 Most-Produced Plays for the 2014 -15 season. The show [...]
Saturday is Museum Day! On Saturday, Sept. 27, more than 1,400 museums across the country will waive admission for the 10th annual Museum Day Live!, hosted by Smithsonian Magazine. Tickets are free. One per household. Good for two people. Some museums that caught my are: New York: Museum of American Illustration and the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art at the Society of Illustrators. New York: Museum of Chinese in America. Chicago: International Museum of Surgical Sciences. Who knew there was a museum for this? [...]
Top 10 Most-Produced Plays of the 2014–15 Season I got back from vacation yesterday to discover my play Around the World in 80 Days has made American Theatre Magazine's Top 10 Most-Produced Plays of the 2014–15 Season. What the hell!? Pretty much my reaction to hearing the news. Talk about a nice surprise. Around the World in 80 Days joins such plays as Peter and the Starcatcher, Other Desert Cities and Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. I join playwrights David Ives, John Patrick [...]
It's another Facebook Friday. Today it's the Classic Edition. Who's on First My friend Sheffield posted this classic video of Abbot and Costello's Who's on First Routine. When I was a kid I held a tape recorder up to the TV to record it. I listened to that recording over and over again until the tape wore out. This routine is complete genius. [embedplusvideo height="360" width="640" editlink="http://bit.ly/WUoIUz" standard="http://www.youtube.com/v/kTcRRaXV-fg?fs=1" vars="ytid=kTcRRaXV-fg&width=640&height=360&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=0&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=¬es=" id="ep5634" /] Elephant Man My friend Larry Hirschhorn, producer extraordinaire, is producing [...]
Tom Jones is in the Dramatic Publishing Catalogue The new Dramatic Publishing Catalogue is here! The new Dramatic Publishing Catalogue is here! Page 7. Brown. Mark. I'm somebody now. Millions of people look at this catalogue every day. This is the kind of spontaneous publicity - your name in print - that makes people. Last month I wrote about my long relationship with Dramatic Publishing and that they were going to publish my new play Tom Jones. Well look who's [...]
Facebook Friday Facebook Friday is here again and the internet was chock full of fun stuff this week. Let's get to it. Ian McKellen's Acting Class Sir Ian McKellen gives Ricky Gervais some wise acting tips. [embedplusvideo height="360" width="640" editlink="http://bit.ly/1lDLZWR" standard="http://www.youtube.com/v/nyoWmkhRyp8?fs=1" vars="ytid=nyoWmkhRyp8&width=640&height=360&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=0&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=¬es=" id="ep9882" /] Granny and Grand Theft Auto This woman. Playing Grand Theft Auto. Thank you Anthony Lawton. [embedplusvideo height="360" width="640" editlink="http://bit.ly/1vORx45" standard="http://www.youtube.com/v/Knab9oQIMOQ?fs=1" vars="ytid=Knab9oQIMOQ&width=640&height=360&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=0&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=¬es=" id="ep1925" /] Sage Advice Monaco's Insanely Priced Penthouse This little Monaco pied a terre will [...]
Hey it's another Facebook Friday. Here a some things form that social monster that made me laugh or smile. For Harry Potter Fans What's Your Canine Name I think they should rename it "What's Your Bitch Name?" but that's me. FYI, I'm Miss Fluffy Bunches. Alan Rickman The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore Ok, technically this was not on Facebook but I absolutely love this scene from Truly, Madly, Deeply [embedplusvideo height="360" width="640" editlink="http://bit.ly/1qcegUo" standard="http://www.youtube.com/v/AZ52td1GMT0?fs=1" vars="ytid=AZ52td1GMT0&width=640&height=360&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=0&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=¬es=" id="ep1237" /] Harry [...]
Noah I stumbled upon this today. It's from a project we had to do for Shabbaton last year. We had to do a retelling of a story from the old testament. I believe the synagogue asked us to convert to any other religion. The Story of Noah God saw that man had become wicked and evil. God thought this wasn’t going the way he had originally envisioned. He felt he could do better so he decided to start over again. [...]