Video chat with Ken Weene for It Matters Radio
I had a great chat the other day with Ken Weene for It Matters Radio about my various historical plays. He and I talked a while back about Robert Smalls and my novel Steering to Freedom, and he was a big fan of the book. I'm always excited to have…
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Blood on the Snow 2017 is now closed.
Matt Ryan as John Hancock and Craig Ciampa as Samuel Adams After 59 performances, the 2017 run of Blood on the Snow at the Old State House in Boston is finally over. This is the longest any of my shows has ever run, and that's not even counting the…
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Both/And and Quantum Physics on PRI
My quantum physics play, Both/And, has closed its run at the MIT Museum (though I harbor hopes it might be back someday. But even if you missed the show, you can get the gist of it and the experiment by listening to this really fun radio story by…
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Santa to play in Lexington, KY
Santa Doesn't Live Here Anymore continues to hit the stages around the world. This time it will be produced by the Studio Players in Lexington, Kentucky, from August 10-14, as part of their annual ten-minute play festival. If you're in the area, I…
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Blood on the Snow mostly sold out (but you still might get tickets)
Matt Ryan as John Hancock, and Craig Ciampa as Samuel Adams. Photo by Justin Saglio Blood on the Snow has now finished the first 8 weeks of its 12-week run at the Old State House in Boston. The response from audiences and critics has continued to be…
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Video about the Cosmic Bell Experiment (and Both/And)
There are just four performances left of Both/And, the play about quantum entanglement that I was commissioned to write by the Central Square Theater and the MIT Museum. August 5 and 6 at 1:30pm and 3pm. It was a particularly challenging play to…
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Catching Up: Santa in Seoul (back in December)
I'm still catching up on some past productions. In this case, one the actors from last August's AND Theatre Festival contacted me about doing a reading of Santa Doesn't Live Here Anymore in a coffee shop at Christmastime in Seoul. Gwangho Kim is a…
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Catching Up: Treacherous Beauty at NEHGS
Robert P. Murphy, Alexander Platt, Ida Esmaeili, Barlow Adamson, and me We're on the verge of July, but I haven't had a chance to post photos and news from events that happened in May. I'm going to try to catch up a little bit. On May 25th, the New…
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Seven Devils: design meeting and set drawings
One of the great parts of the Seven Devils script development process is the design meeting. I got to spend part of an afternoon meeting with design fellow Sabrina Reed, my director Christy Montour-Larson, dramaturg Gay Smith, and Seven Devils…
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I’m back from Seven Devils. (Wow!)
I'm finally getting a chance to catch my breath a little, after an extremely busy start to the year. It was all capped off with a 17-day stay at the Seven Devils Playwrights Conference in McCall, Idaho, where I workshopped my play, Drift. I'd had…
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