TO WORK...

fall is in the air....my fave time of year! feel like life and work have taken off again or at least in new directions...at a very fast pace. started GLASS MENAGERIE two days ago and in a good way, it feels like we have been working on it for much longer. was living with the play all summer and so have the actors, so the work is much deeper from the get go. dealing with the recent communication with my dad for the first time in 26 years and the impending reunion with him when he and his wife and my step brother come to see the show next month has really made me look at the play in a much more emotional way. the aftermath of this play is so dark and yet one that we never get to experience. tom is so hurt and isolated because of his fathers departure from the family...abandonment...and yet that is what he does to his own sister and mother at the end of the play. he leaves them sitting in the dark after not paying the light bill so he can run away and join the mercahnt marines...brutal...the underlying latent tendencies of tom are are also very resonant and what he an his mother both know or suspect about him is so secretly woven into the fabric of the play. it's a play i have always wanted to work on and i am so thrilled to have the chance to do it. the cast is amazing and the design is beautiful so i am really lookig forward to continuing to work on it and seeeing it come to life. hope people can join me on opening night october 17th. the play runs through nov 16th. make your ressies now. it is selling fast! (407) 447-1700

class is going well. the students continue to direct each other in charles mee monologues and soon they will begin to work on contemporary american plays. looking so forward to the end of the semester when they direct shakespeare outdoors on campus and we get out of the trailer and into the cool november weather.

go see TWO MEN TRAPPED IN WOMEN'S BODIES at the PARLIAMENT HOUSE! wanzies ten year old star vehicle for himself and doug is hi-larious and kenny howard has breathed some new life into this decade old drag warhorse! it's wanzies o-town answer to GREATER TUNA and truly a blast! hide your ailrine bottles! security can be tough in diners and drag bars!

went to the reading series for the new GLBT festival last sunday at mad cow and was blown away! my former student josh levine, who now works for new dramatists, has a degree in playwriting and shares my nyc agent...had written a piece and flown in especially for the occasion. his play TOYS-R-US was alot of fun and a harrowing short set on the site of an AIDS quilt exibition called SONGS MY BROTHER SANG blew me away! congrats to john didonna and the whole gang that put this together and thanks and kudos to the entire GLBT board!
i really hope this fest has a future!

so many people are so thankful for ron legler and florida theatrical association pledging lost BROADWAY CARES monies this week! what an amazing gesture.

UGLY BETTY premieres tonight so i am looking forward to seeing the fruits of my friend josh shull's labors as the new nyc location manager. he is so proud of his new posh post and bff judith light! TRUE BLOOD on sundays followed by MAD MEN is my fave night on tv so far this season and i will very be sad to see don draper and big red go soon. can't wait for DAMAGES and DEXTER my two fave shows!
i wanna see jimmy smitts TRY to steal scenes from cs lee....



i can't believe clay aiken is gay!!!!! who knew???



if palin was my mama my name would be QUARTER GRANITE PALIN...what's your palin name?

http://politsk.blogspot.com/2008/09/sarah_13.html

and if obama has to walk into some DC troll bar and pull mccain off of some twinky G addicted go-go boy and drag his ass down to the television station that mo-fo better debate friday nite! forget the debate...let's just let em box!