A new play by Lindsey Ferrentino offers an interesting evening of theater.  It addresses how persons with disabilities (in this case Down Syndrome) were treated back in the 1950's and how many years later siblings try to correct what was casually accepted so many decades ago.  It wisely neither excuses institutionalizing children nor condones it … Continue reading Review – Amy and the Orphans

The only times I have seen The Jerry Springer show has been at doctor's offices because it was on daytime TV as I waited for an appointment.  I recognized what has become a meme immediately in the Off-Broadway show currently at the Signature Theater courtesy of The New Group. This show is pretty much a … Continue reading Review – Jerry Springer the Opera

The Signature Theatre is having quite the season.  Their remounting of Edward Albee's At Home at the Zoo: Homelife and The Zoo Story is spectacular and a must see this season.  Directed by Lila Neugebauer and featuring the extraordinarily talented Robert Sean Leonard, Katie Finnernan and the explosive Paul Sparks, it should be on your … Continue reading Review – At Home at the Zoo

Today is your last chance to see MATT AND SUSAN AND GREG AND JULIE as part of the Players Theatre Short Play Festival and I hope you will join us for the 3 PM matinee.  Pamela Wilson did a great job of directing the work featuring Shelton Tripp, Gabby Hammond and Carly Ruda.  Use the … Continue reading Last show in the run – a matinee today!

The Players Theatre Short Play Festival continues again tonight with a terrific production to my play MATT AND SUSAN AND GREG AND JULIE.  Join us tonight for the 7 PM show by coming to the Players Theatre in Greenwich Village.  Use the discount code CAST online at http://www.shortplaynyc.com or at the door.  Visit with the … Continue reading Matt and Susan and Greg and Julie (well, maybe not Greg) invite you to see their show!

Last night's opening went very well and we'll do it again tonight!  My script MATT AND SUSAN AND GREG AND JULIE gets a first class mounting, directed by Pamela Wilson and featuring Shelton Tripp, Gabby Hammond and Carly Ruda.  It is part of the Players Theatre Short Play Festival Sex Edition at this historic venue … Continue reading Come see the show in Greenwich Village!

Tonight is the opening night of my short play MATT AND SUSAN AND GREG AND JULIE as part of the Players Theatre Short Play Festival Sex Edition in Greenwich Village.  The information can be found in the flier below.  If you will be in New York this weekend I hope you will see it.  Feel … Continue reading Opening Night!

Eve Ensler created a sensation and a valuable service with her Vagina Monologues which started as a performance piece, turned into an influential script and morphed into a movement that continues today.  Her most recent work combines her struggle with cancer and her efforts on behalf of women the Congo. The problem with the show … Continue reading Review – In The Body Of The World

Tickets are on sale for the upcoming performances of my play MATT AND SUSAN AND GREG AND JULIE at the Players Theatre in Greenwich Village in New York!  Go to: http://www.shortplaynyc.com and choose the second week of the festival (February 15-18) and pick your evening (or the Sunday matinee).  When you have the opportunity to … Continue reading Tickets are on sale for my next show!

Last year I let you know that my script HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LEONARD had been chosen as one of the 34 semi-finalists out of 224 scripts submitted for the Still Crazy After All These Years Festival by Stray Kats Theatre Company in Newton, Connecticut.  Just got word that they have reduced the list to 15 finalists … Continue reading Happy Birthday Leonard is a step closer

Went to a meeting at the Players Theatre and I can tell you: My play "Matt and Julie and Greg and Susan" will be performed at the Players Theater Short Play Festival on February 15-18.  The theme of the Festival is Sex and we are the show right after Valentines Day so come and enjoy … Continue reading Update on M&J&G&S

A wine-fueled, comedy laced party is underway at Manhattan Theater Club and you should accept the invitation to attend. And, of course, you can with this discount code: https://www.nycitycenter.org/pdps/party-face/?PromoCode=21997 The script by Isobel Mahon is a bit of a hot mess but then so are the characters she so convincingly offers up.  These ladies bewail … Continue reading Review – Party Face

Matt and Julie and Greg and Susan will be part of the Players Theater Short Play and Musical Festival - The SEX! Edition in February.  Performances will be Thursday, February 15 at 7 PM; Friday, February 16 at 7 PM; Saturday, February 17 at 7 PM and Sunday, February 18 at 3 PM.  It will … Continue reading My play will be presented at PLAYERS THEATER

Last week Pamela and I had the opportunity to take in a community theater production of A Man For All Seasons.  It was staged, quite credibly, by The Heights Players, a long standing and very active amateur group in Brooklyn Heights.  It has long been one of my favorite scripts of the 1960's canon and … Continue reading Review – A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS

Thrilled to announce that my ten-minute play "Happy Birthday, Leonard" is a semi-finalist in the Still Crazy After All These Years festival by the Stray Kats Theatre Company in Newton, Connecticut.  It is one of 34 plays selected from 224 submissions.  They will further winnow their selections to arrive at 8 to 10 scripts to … Continue reading Happy Birthday, Leonard is a semi-finalist