Okay my Florida friends. You keep asking when one of my shows is going to make it to Florida, well here you go. The American Stage Theatre Company is St. Petersburg will be doing Around the World in 80 Days. The Dates are March 19 - April 13. American Stage has been around since 1977 and has consistently been named "Best Theatre Company" by Tampa Bay Magazine. So here's what you do: Make a day of it. In the morning go [...]
Who doesn't like free stuff? Einstein Bros Bagels is giving away a free Thinstastic Bagel with Shmear tomorrow (1.15.14).
The Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre just announced that Around the World in 80 Days will be part of their 54th Anniversary Season. Located in the heart of Missouri, and smack dab in the middle of the Missouri River, - seriously, the town of Arrow Rock should be a barge - the Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre has been going strong since 1961. And in 1960, just one year before Arrow Rock kicked off its first ever season with The Importance of [...]
The other day I posted about how years ago I recorded some of my songs in my living room. The songs were mostly meditations about loss and loneliness. I grouped them under an imaginary CD entitled The Ghosts That Haunt Me. I am probably the least knowledgable person about home recording but I recorded them for fun and to see what I could create. Here's The Isle of Memories. I hope you like it.
Years ago I wrote and recorded songs to while away the time between auditions and acting gigs. I was digging through the vault today and found this one. It's called "Muriel," about a guy finally able to say goodbye to his past and move on with his life. It was part of my imaginary album entitled The Ghosts That Haunt Me. Cheery, huh? Well, that's what a lifelong battle with depression will do to you. I've always wanted to bribe someone like [...]
The Hangar Theatre announced today that Around the World in 80 Days will be part of it's 40th Anniversary Mainstage Season. Thanks so much to Jen Waldman, Hangar's new Artistic Director, for choosing my show to be part of the season. I just hope that when June rolls around the temperature in Ithaca won't be 1°F. Temp at 7:20pm EST. Weather.com says it feels like -15°F. Brr.
Another year is upon us and that means another round of resolutions are made. I read somewhere that only 8% of New Year Resolutions are successful. That's not a great statistic but it might not be the worst thing in the world. Think of the stress relief when you no longer have to succeed at a resolution. Take my resolution to write a post every day in 2014. Already broken. Boom. I now have 362 stress-free days. There are, however, [...]
Happy New Year. May 2014 bring you happiness beyond belief. Here are some images of New Year celebrations from around the world. New Year's Eve, London New Year's Eve, Scotland New Year's Eve, Moscow New Year's Eve, Kuala Lumpur New Year's Eve, Victoria Harbor, Hong Kong New Year's Eve, New York New Year's Eve, Great Wall, China New Year's Eve, Taipei
Bitter Lemons' Top Rated Los Angeles Shows for 2013 recently came out and the International City Theatre production of my play Around the World in 80 Days made the list. Not only did it make the Top Ten productions list but it received a 100% Sweet score. Sweet. Bitter Lemons is a site that gathers reviews from a variety of local review sites around the internet and then forms an aggregate score that in turn becomes a show’s Lemon Meter Rating. [...]
If he was still alive, Mao Zedong would have been 120-years old today. If the 45-million people who died during Mao's failed Great Leap Forward were still alive today, they'd be -- well -- they'd be alive. To commemorate Mao's birthday, here's a demo recording from my musical China - The Whole Enchilada, written with my friend Paul Mirkovich. In the show, the song is sung by Joseph Stalin. To read more about the muted celebrations China, [...]
