Feb 28UNPACKING THE LAYERS: ARTHUR MILLER'S INSIGHTS INTO "DEATH OF A SALESMAN"In a newly discovered letter to a college student, written shortly after the premiere of his most famous work, the playwright describes...
Jan 10THE LITERARY ANIMAL: EVOLUTION & THE NATURE OF NARRATIVEI've read dozens of books on playwriting, screenwriting, and story. The top five are: The Literary Animal: Evolution & The Nature of...
Jan 8MAKING MOVIES: SIDNEY LUMETLumet's 1995 book, Making Movies, is a must-read for filmmakers and movie lovers. Here are a few of my favorite passages: "With Serpico,...
Nov 23, 2023How Not to Write a Play, by Walter Kerr - Part IIThe list of my highlights continues: Pg 51 - "We have inherited not the drama of action, of character, of kinetic intimacy with the human...
Nov 23, 2023How Not to Write a Play, by Walter Kerr - Part IHow Not to Write a Play by Walter Kerr, 1955, Simon and Schuster, is among the best books ever written on playwrighting. Kerr's grasp of...
Nov 20, 2023QuotesWe were loading in a show at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center when a scribble of graffiti on an elevator door caught my eye - "Know...
Jan 29, 2023That Time I Interviewed Neil GaimanBack in 1998, when I was a producer/editor at Seattle's PBS station, KCTS/9, I convinced the pledge program director that it would be a...