Around the World in 80 Days at Kelsey Theatre Evidently the newly added Nudist Colony scene. Two weeks ago my play Tom Jones opened at Butler College in Kansas. (I made a quick trip there to meet everyone). This week Maurer Productions opened my play Around the World in 80 Days at the Kelsey Theatre located at Mercer County Community College. I have a great fondness for the Kelsey Theatre. It's a stone's throw from where I grew up. When [...]
The Arkansas New Play Festival Update Well, it's not really an update since I haven't written anything about The Arkansas New Play Festival but I couldn't think of anything witty. In the Dallas airport with Mark Jacobson I'm here in Fayetteville, Arkansas at TheatreSquared for the previously mentioned Arkansas New Play Festival, to workshop my play The Quest for Don Quixote. And it's going swimmingly. I'm fortunate to be in the featured play slot. That means the show gets 2 1/2 weeks [...]
Actors Co-Op's Production of 80 Days is a Critics Pick Can I get a woot woot for Actors Co-Op? The theatre has put together a fantastic production of my play Around the World in 80 Days. How fantastic is it? Critics Pick! ~ "At once elegant and loopy, it’s a delightful confection!" ~ The Los Angeles Times 5 Stars! ~ “Perfectly hilarious and thoroughly entertaining . . . True genius! Laughter is nearly non-stop!" ~ The Examiner 5 Stars! ~ “Theatrical magic!” ~ Haines His Way [...]
Actors Co-Op Goes Around the World in 80 Days Tonight Actors Co-Op in Hollywood, CA opens my play Around the World in 80 Days tonight. It's their final show of the season (And I hope my show doesn't make it the final show ever for them) and runs until June 14. I'm unable to make it to the opening. I have to be downtown at East West Players with my daughter, who is playing 10-year old Tommy in The Who's [...]
Des Moines Playhouse Goes Around the World in 80 Days Photo courtesy Steve Gibbons Des Moines Playhouse is producing my play Around the World in 80 Days. This may be an Iowa premiere but I'm not sure. And it may be the oldest theatre to produce the play. The Des Moines Playhouse was founded in 1919. You know what also happened in 1919? The Treaty of Versailles; the Weimar Republic came into existence in Germany; Mussolini formed the Fascist Party; Senate passed the Women's Suffrage [...]
Around the World in 80 Days at Actors Co-op Actors Co-op in Hollywood, CA is producing my play Around the World in 80 Days. The show runs from May 6 - June 14. It's the fifth and final show in its 2014-2015 season. I don't know much about Actors Co-op but m friend Peter Allen Vogt did Who Killed Edwin Drood? there last year. The show is being directed by Rhonda Kohl. I had coffee with her the other day and she couldn't have [...]
Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre Whirlwind Tour Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre opened its season with a production of my play Around the World in 80 Days. From the reviews I've seen it seems they've put together a crackerjack production. "A madcap delight from beginning to end!" The show stars: Mark Torres as Fogg. Justin (Vowel cartel) Pietropaolo as Passepartout. John Long as Detective Fixx. Joe (Yes I am related to Justin) Pietropaolo as the cast of thousands. Amie Lytle as Aouda. [...]
Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater - Around the World in 80 Days Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater kicks off their 2015 season with my play Around the World in 80 Days. Can I get a woot woot? Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater goes by the acronym WHAT. Please tell me they've done a Who's on First-esque routine for fundraisers. If you're in the Cape Cod area and can shovel your way out of your house, head on over to see the show. The show [...]
Circle Theatre Company's Successful Run Congratulations to the Circle Theatre Company for their successful run of Around the World in 80 Days. How successful was it? Box-office records, baby. That's awesome. And I think it was student directed. But I'm not sure. CTC is located in Orlando and they did not one but two of my shows this year. Over the holidays they produced The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge. When I wrote both shows I wanted to make them so [...]
I'm Fort Myers Bound I'm heading to Fort Myers later this week to see Florida Rep's production of Around the World in 80 Days. Don't just take my word for it. It's also on Broadwayworld. "Florida Repertory Theatre has announced that Mark Brown, the critically acclaimed author of Around the World in 80 Days, will visit Fort Myers this weekend to see Florida Rep's production of his play." See? I'll also be doing some audience talkbacks. Again I defer to [...]
