Note: the following is from Associated Press, not The Onion ( Read more... )

...but I just put down a deposit on a performance space. Barring catastrophe, I'll be co-producing "Dead of Night," a trio of my ghost plays, next February.

Here we go again...

Steve

Cue slow, out-of-focus pan of leavesturning from green to red ( Read more... )

In a couple weeks, "The Centering," a play I co-wrote with Portland actor Chris Harder (who also performs it), opens at the Boulder International Fringe Theatre Festival. Chris won a Drammy this year (kind of like Portland's Tony Award) for his work as Actor in Leading Role. Anyway, if you're in Boulder or have friends there and would like to ( Read more... )

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Memorial Day, and the numbers keep rolling in, and I am sick of loss. Buddha said all life is suffering, and, perhaps when he did, there was a grim laugh in the back of his throat. Listening to Pearl Jam’s “Man of the Hour” and thinking of a friend who recently died unexpectedly, of Warren Zevon, Hunter S. Thompson, and Ken Kesey, who seemed so ( Read more... )

Recently came back from California, where my wife and I stopped at Point Lobos State Park, a couple miles south of Carmel. Photographer Edward Weston spent the last 20 years of his life making some of his greatest photographs there, and, as Weston was one of my influences/heroes, visiting Point Lobos was a personally moving experience, not to ( Read more... )

Jesus, it's been a long time since I posted here. A grueling mess of life. Fortunately, I think after June, things will get markedly better. (Looks frantically for wood to knock on.) New job--back to energy consulting editing, which I've loved in the past--starts next week. Bunch of theatres around the country are considering my work, but the ( Read more... )

The sun has been sucked into the tail of a passing comet, resulting in substantial snow in Portland, impassable roads, black ice, gravity collapsing into itself, the death of language, and the end of the world as we know it.

Tomorrow's commute will be high on the suckage scale.

Conclusion: comets may be pretty, but they are not our friends.Steve

Well, the New Play Network (http://groups.myspace.com/newplaynetwork) has been up and running for a week, and so far we have an amazing 75 members. Here's thanking all the theatres, playwrights, and directors who have joined ( Read more... )