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PRNYC Odd Duck Cast Announced

Posted on August 16, 2012 by mrose

The first staged reading of the full-length PRNYC will be at at the Odd Duck Studio, Monday October 1, 7:00 PM.  Space limited. RSVP details to come.  Cast as follows: PETER RILEY – David Hogan BILLY RILEY – Ben Andrews … Continue reading →

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Tom Stoppard on Writing a Play

Posted on April 11, 2010 by mrose
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New Play Development Venue in NYC

Posted on April 7, 2010 by mrose

The newly created Bleecker Street Theatre Company officially launched April 5 with a reading of Murray Schisgal’s Playtime, featuring Rosie Perez, Peter Reigert and Chip Zien.  A benefit Tuesday, April 13, features Murray Schisgal, Israel Horovitz, Mario Fratti, Donna de … Continue reading →

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What Makes Drama, According to Mamet

Posted on April 4, 2010 by mrose

CBS’s drama The Unit, about the lives of the highly trained members of a top-secret military division, was canceled last year, but a memo to its writing staff from its executive producer David Mamet has just surfaced online.  Here it … Continue reading →

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Blog Your Play – It Works

Posted on April 1, 2010 by mrose

From The Loop Online, a great source for emerging playwrights: This is James Venhaus, long-time Loop-er and playwright. I wanted to let you know about something really cool that is happening with one of my plays that might be of … Continue reading →

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Why is Pinter So Dour?

Posted on January 16, 2010 by mrose

It’s been said that he’s equal parts Hemingway and Beckett but to me Pinter is Alfred Hitchcock. Re-reading The Birthday Party- discovering it for the first time, previous readings were like skimming – the suspense, tension, uncertainty – like a rug … Continue reading →

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Do Playwrights Deserve Nurturing?

Posted on January 14, 2010 by mrose

From The New York Times today: …. close relationships between playwrights and theaters are increasingly rare these days, and developing more of them is one of the chief recommendations of a new study of the state of the American play … Continue reading →

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prnyc punctuation!

Posted on January 3, 2010 by mrose

Today I completed the first draft of a new full-length prnyc. How do you know when you complete the first draft? You reach a state of complete exhaustion and you cannot gone on. There is nowhere, in this milieu, beyond the … Continue reading →

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The Theatre

Posted on December 13, 2009 by mrose

The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It’s got five or six people, new show every night, same players. Good ensemble; the people have worked together a lot.  Michael J. Fox The theater is so endlessly fascinating because … Continue reading →

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The Cold Reading

Posted on October 25, 2009 by mrose

I have used Bruce before in cold readings. He knows what he’s talking about and he always brings something active, something alive to the reading, no matter what the role. Thanks to Nancy McClernan at nyc playwrights for producing this … Continue reading →

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