Month: September 2013

Submitting Work to the National Playwrights Conference – A Diary

The National Playwrights Conference is the preeminent laboratory for development of new plays.ย  It is daunting to even think about the prospect of being one of 7 or so playwrights who will stay at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford, CT for a month in the summer working on their baby, their play. Each […]

Apocalypse Now, The Great Gatsby, and the House of the Dead

  House of the Dead In an article in the NY Times entitled My Home, the House of the Dead, byย William G. Thomas III, a professor of history at the University of Nebraska, he tells of his family lore making their homestead in Virginia a hospital during the Civil War. ย Even more important to a […]