333 stories by "Kyle"
Just back from my PlayLabs reading of Yucca Corridor at The Great Plains Theatre Conference. On the plane I was reading a New Yorker and enjoyed this review by&…
I just made a page. Check it out here.
and saw that I forgot to post this. Or maybe I lost my nerve. Anyway here's a chestnut from last September.Notes from Arden column about the 99-seat conversation/controversy happening in var…
I must've seen Sonic Youth play this song during the Washing Machine tour. I went with Sarah all the way to Memphis from central Arkansas in what must've been my sophomore year of college. I…
I also had every intention of writing about Luna Gale at the Douglas, but I saw it so long ago my memories of it are fading. I saw it right after Thanksgiving, which must be n…
Not the CTG poster, but the first image that came up on a Google search.I've had every intention of writing a bit about the recent production of What The Butler Saw at the Mark Taper, but th…
and discovered that FWL is a source for what looks like a pretty serious book. Granted, it was a commenter's writing instead of mine that was quoted, but it's still gratifying.The book is&nb…
if I had been a little more active on FWL lately I might've written about how moved I was by his first memoir, My Lives, which I finally got around to reading this year, although it's a…
and where's the self-congratulatory 10-year anniversary post?Looking back on the first posts of FWL, there's nothing to be exceedingly excited or embarrassed about, nothing poignant or momen…
the 10-year anniversary of FWL, so I thought I'd do a victory lap with a few new posts and then call it a decade.Before I begin, isn't it funny that I started the blog this year with a decla…
Fell Swoop Playwrights is presenting two evenings of new plays, one of which includes my new script, Hope House. Come check it out. See below for details. Get haunted. Photo by Emily Raw.Fe…
At Stories Books in Echo Park. Check out the Facebook invitation here.
RIP Killer. Join me at the Killer Memorial Benefit on Monday at The Abbey, or buy a Killer t-shirt.
last night in an old legal pad and I found this line I jotted down on a page in the middle of the pad. I guess it's still in search of a play.It could be like they do in the movies where you…
with the posting in July, but I don't know what happened after Outfest ended.Well, I do know that I went up to Sonoma County to hang out with my friend Tony and his family for a bit. I wrote…
Wojnarowicz in a photo by Marion ScemamaMy Outfest weekend started at REDCAT last night with a couple of David Wojnarowicz short films. This was a must-see for me, as I just finish…
white gays are stealing black female culture business is bizarre to me, mainly because I must've missed the point at which Time Magazine was reduced to looking for op-ed material from c…
Fringe vs. Institutional Theater business is that the Fringe is itself an institution, with leadership, community history, community standards, a marketplace, best practices, authoritative v…
were talking on Twitter about this write-up of shows in the Toronto Fringe Festival by Kelly Nestruck, and he makes some interesting points--It occurred to me around my fifth show this year:…
A little warm-up circle before our last rehearsal.The second and less crazy rehearsal of that day.I'm as proud of The Last Temptation of Paula Deen this year as I am of The Miss Julie Dream …
these today.This one's probably the best, as it has Bowie doing Heroes and Generation X starring a 21-year-old Billy Idol, plus and Bowie getting a little silly in the last minute.This one's…
The Last Temptation of Paula Deen, and it's a good one. Sarah Tuft really gets what we're on about. Here's my favorite quote--[T]his unique brand of co-authorship seems to encourage a layere…
Kevin and I spent an afternoon at the Hammer for the Made in L.A. 2014 exhibit. We spent a fair amount of time watching this guy dance to Dionne Warwick. We were both big fans of …
staycation, as Kevin is in town and we're running around doing touristy things like getting sunburned on the Channel Islands (well, just one...Santa Cruz) and going to museums and the like. …
