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It is finished: The first complete draft 26 Nov 2011 | 12:45 pm

So we’re on families Thanksgiving vacation and I’ve have finally finished the first draft manuscript of the 40 plays in 40 days experience. (Interesting that the last 1/2 of the plays took almost 2 ye...

Talking with Theatre Geeks 21 Jan 2010 | 02:47 pm

I had a chance to sit down with a newer podcast called Theatre Geeks and explain myself, my summer and why I think Shakespeare is still okay for community theatre. Whereas my last interview with RSC ...

Year-end Giving to Shakespeare 1 Jan 2010 | 11:08 am

This summer of 40 plays in 40 days reminded me again of the wonderful people out there in the States who produce quality Shakespearean performances in a wide-variety of venues. Many of the performance...

A trip to Madison to see RSC 15 Dec 2009 | 12:09 pm

What high school English teacher wouldn’t show the Reduced Shakespeare Company’s (RSC) Complete Works of Shakespeare–Abridged? And so I have (usually after hanging out with Hamlet for a couple of week...

Now what? 6 Dec 2009 | 08:05 am

The summer experience of seeing all of Shakespeare’s plays is long over (since the end of August), now what? Not a bad question. I’m currently finishing the write-ups for the rest of the summer play...

First Narrative Report: An Accounting of the Summer 28 Oct 2009 | 10:31 am

As part of my documentation of my grant from the Lilly Endowment Foundation, I was invited to share my summer experience at a dinner last month with fellow grant recipients (we had a 3-minute limit…yi...