/Writing
JOURNALISM
From 2005-2006, I wrote on theater and books for www.laist.com. Here are some samples:
BOOKS/LITERARY ARTICLES:
A Guide To The Literary Jonathans
But She Is In Her Grave, And, Oh! The Difference To Me
Postponing Potter
THEATER REVIEWS:
Much Adoobie Brothers About Nothing
Marat/Sade Meets Marxism
Yellow Ball In The Side Pocket…
When You’re Down On Your Luck And You’re Too Drunk To Fuck…Bukowsical!
It’s Simon Thaddeus Mulberry-Pew!
There’s Husbandry In Heaven; Their Candles Are All Out
Seventeenth-Century Pirates in Pasadena
What’s In A Musical? The Wild Party
Edward Gorey Returns From The Dead
INTERVIEWS:
Son Of Semele Ensemble Finally Flies Free! (Aaron Henne and Edgar Landa)
Dickens Project (Janet Dulin Jones and Paul Lazarus)
Preludes and Fugues: John Glore and Matthew McCray
MASTER LINK:
to all articles written for www.laist.com
POETRY
Hope Is A Four-Letter Word, a spoken-word poem I wrote about Barack Obama’s candidacy, published online in Illinois Issues, a publication of the University of Illinois at Springfield.
FICTION
Spinet, published online in Six Sentences.
NONFICTION
For download, On The Chorus – a short article which I wrote for a director who was asking me to explain my theatrical chorus methodology.
PLAYS
You can download the most recent draft of 13 WAYS OF LOOKING AT THE CHORUS. If you have thoughts on it, I’d love to know what they are. Please note that the script is cobbled together, like a mosaic, a quilt, a collage, or a hot mess, from the copyrighted and unattributed texts of various different playwrights – naturally if the project were to move forward, I would secure the rights from them for use. Since that hasn’t happened yet, don’t do anything illegal, folks. Thanks.
August 30, 2009 at 9:40 pm
You’ve got a lot here, well worth looking at in some detail (as a friend of mine told me). Glanced at the Obama not-yet-a-poem about hope. Have you noticed since writing it just how much he — and those like him — are really needed? The right wing obstinacy never ends. And its ‘defeat’ isn’t in any way assured.
Myself — have been much more film oriented than theater-oriented, but my respect for the latter has increased quite a bit over time and exposure.
August 31, 2009 at 10:32 pm
“An independent, opinionated bookseller who can recommend books to you is one of the greatest privileges of an free nation and an intellectual community. We lose that privilege when we don’t defend the independents.”
I heart this.
September 1, 2009 at 2:09 pm
Thanks, Alice & Paul!