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Jul.25.2012
By the summer of 1978, I had already launched the first season of my touring repertory company, The Hamlett Players. Our excerpts from classic plays were met with mixed reviews; we did a nice job with the material, the audience said, but it was disconcerting to only see 15 minutes of a story and...
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Feb.19.2011
What a thrill it was to see my cousin's play here in California a couple of weeks ago. I gave up supporting the Pittsburgh Steelers and my husband in order to go see the play on Super Bowl Sunday...see what happened without my support? If you've ever had the pleasure of seeing words that you've...
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Nov.08.2010
Havel receives Trutnov's honorary citizenship, culture awardČTK |
Trutnov, East Bohemia, Nov 5 (CTK) - Former Czech president Vaclav Havel Friday received the honorary citizenship and culture award of the town of Trutnov for his extraordinary contribution to Czech and world culture and...
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Oct.12.2010
A king in tears, about to kill his daughter in order to appease a goddess and call up favorable winds for war, moves offstage to make way for girls in tiny dresses singing rock ballads about “Syrian flutes and Lydian lutes” and groaning with desire for Achilles. A young woman in a Louisiana housing...
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Nov.25.2009
One of the things I discovered when I first came to England to start my writing career in the late 70s was that many writers there were not limited to, say, being a novelist or a playwright. In fact, I knew this in advance, or at least had a sense of it, and so when we settled in London in our...
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Oct.18.2009
I never took a full-fledged course in Shakespeare. Rather than pine for something interesting I missed, I'm taking a class at UCLA Extension, taught by the knowledgeable Dr. Russell Stone.
I thought I would be one of the older people in the course, but there seem to be many older than me. They...
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Jul.22.2009
The Annual AfroSolo Arts Festival will do a public reading of my new play, "Waiting for Giovanni," at the African American Arts and Culture Center, (August 8th, 762 Fulton Street, San Francisco, 3 PM). It's free and the lovely intimate theatre seats a nice number of people...enough to...
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Jul.08.2009
For over twenty years I have been of the opinion that writing is a solitary art. Sure, people read what you write, but they aren't involved in it. It isn’t a collaborative process. Knowing that has made it easier to remain solitary in my fortress of solitude crafting solitary works. I developed...
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May.31.2009
It’s nearly Christmas Eve, and Harriet, the Wilder family matriarch, seems to have acquired an imaginary friend. Her daughters Joy and Jessie are flummoxed. Is "Annabelle" a symptom of mental illness --- or a real person with sinister motives? Everyone has something to hide in DRIVEN: a...
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Mar.27.2009
I'm seen as an upcoming writer--and I feel it.
Twenty-six years ago, I received my master of fine arts degree in professional writing from USC. Twelve years ago, I wrote a play called Who Lives? where I had become utterly fascinated about a true event: a citizen's committee devoted to choosing a...
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