I guess when I left my old job, I found myself thinking about "closing the book" on some old chapters in my life. I'm not ready to truly close the book, though: with Leah and Joni, I have material for more than a few stories and plays! But my life has gone on ( Read more... )

I'm not sure if anyone is reading this still, but here goes ( Read more... )

With the ability to do rapid updates on Facebook and the occasional tweet on Twitter, I really don't post here anymore. As I've said before: if you want to keep up with what's going on in my life, just friend me on Facebook ( Read more... )

It's the Jewish holiday season. As much as I have moved on from L, there are things that bring her back to mind. For example, when I look at my finances (I'm not rolling in riches, but I'm also not living paycheck-to-paycheck). That brings me to the mystery of why I always seemed to be broke when L lived with me. The Jewish holidays also make ( Read more... )

Movies . . .

First, Silent House. They used shaky cam to make it look like the film was done in one take. By the way, I'm not all that impressed with "making it look like the film is done in one take". In theatre, EVERYTHING is one take. We did five performances of "Vampe", and all of those performances were one shot, 2 1/2 hours straight ( Read more... )

I think there is a good chance I will someday be starting my own community theatre company. I would need to raise money in order to get a venue . . . I have crappy credit, so I'm not going to be signing for any mortgage ( Read more... )

"The Crystal" came in second place at PACTFest. The actor won an award for best actor, and the play received an award for special effects and lighting. This is all really good, considering that it was a play I just kinda' "threw together". It's going on to the next level, ESTAFest, which will be held in April ( Read more... )

Friday, we had an encore show of "Vampe". Word of mouth has been very good, and we had a good sized crowd. The problem is that our performance had gotten sloppy. I was noticing people were forgetting lines and the like. We needed to meet for a line-through during the week. What really annoys me is that the cast of "The Crystal" came to see the ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago, Marsha, a woman I knew because she directed "Shakespeare in the Trailer park" last spring, directed my play "The Crystal". It was part of a night of one-acts, and "The Crystal" was one of the two plays selected to go on to something called PACTFest, which is an original works festival. Marsha was telling me that she was getting ( Read more... )

We're starting to get a bit nervous about "Vampe" because opening night is approaching soon. This is perfectly normal: this is a Viviana production, and I doubt that there has ever been a Viviana production where we didn't wish we had one more week! Now, we're hitting the difficult part: the musical is too long, and we need to cut things ( Read more... )