Saturday, December 13, 2014

Happy Holidays from THE DESK SET

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The rumors are true: I'm going to be appearing in a play next summer for the first time in years. I'll be playing the supporting r...
Friday, December 5, 2014

Happy 80th Birthday, Joan Didion -- On "The White Album"

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It's Joan Didion's 80th birthday today and, as it happens, I've spent the last few weeks reading and rereading her essays. My Di...
Sunday, November 30, 2014

November Spawned a Monster

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I didn't write a Theater Pub column this Thursday, because of Thanksgiving. And also because the editor needed to run the VERY VERY SPEC...
Monday, November 24, 2014

Autumn is for Gothic Fiction: "The Woman in White"

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I often try to read some classic Gothic or horror fiction during the autumn months -- it seems like the right time of year for it. This year...
Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Everything's Coming Up Rosie: Overthinking My Halloween Costume

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For Halloween this year, I dressed up as Rosie the Riveter. So did a lot of other young women in San Francisco. There were two other Rosie...
Sunday, October 26, 2014

"Les Belles-Soeurs" -- Fifteen Squabbling Quebecoises

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After reading and enjoying Michel Tremblay's play Albertine, in Five Times , I decided I should read his most famous work for the stage,...
Sunday, October 19, 2014

"The Dryad of Suburbia" - staged reading Nov. 5

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2014 is my fourth year participating in the San Francisco Olympians Festival as a writer. My contribution this year is a 10-minute play, ...