Archive: Plays category

We're in the middle of the run of Long Ago & Far Away, and it's going quite well. (Last night's Tree of Blood performance was head and shoulders above the last four performances, in fact. And Repeating History is proving to be one of the audience favorites.) ...
Over the past month, I've been revising Tree of Blood a lot. (Ten or eleven times, to be exact.) After several revisions I realized that I'd written myself into several plot knots, primarily because I'd been adding in all sorts of backstory without stepping out to make sure ...
[Cross-posted from Top of the Mountains.] This morning I found out that Tree of Blood did indeed get accepted. :) It'll be produced as part of New Play Project's Long Ago and Far Away show (seven short plays) on July 25–26, 28, August 1–2, 4. Times will most ...
[Cross-posted from Top of the Mountains.] There were enough good submissions to the New Play Project Long Ago and Far Away set that they've added an extra round of finals, and my play Tree of Blood is one of the nine finalists. Phew. :) We have till Tuesday ...
I submitted three plays to this next New Play Project set, Long Ago and Far Away. (The plays are Tree of Blood, Rhymetime, and Do Not Pass Go, in case you were wondering. Which you probably weren't. :)) And I've also cast my lot in to assistant ...
From the 37signals post Workaholics fixate on inconsequential details: Good advice for anyone who wants to be more efficient: When you’re sweating for hours over a tiny detail, stop and ask yourself, “Is this really worth the amount of time I’m spending on it?” If not, declare “good enough” and ...
This'll be quick because it's late and I'm tired. I've been helping out with ushering and the box office/concessions booth for New Play Project's production of Swallow the Sun. You know, box office is a lot of fun. And I didn't even expect to like it as ...
I haven't done a very good job of keeping up with this blog lately, have I. :) As it happens, I got a little, um, distracted, but I'm happy to report that the distraction has left as abruptly as it came, and life is now back to normal again. It ...
We had our closing performance of the show -- Lost and Found -- tonight. The house was more full than it had been for any of the other five performances, and the audience was great -- very receptive, they laughed a lot, and overall it was just an amazing ...
Great post on Segullah by Chris Bigelow entitled Mormon Literature: Carving Out a Middle Niche? Piddling around with Mormon niche markets is okay, as far as it goes (which isn’t far). But for me, the real holy grail of Mormon literature would be for a Mormon author to break ...