Randy-learning from Ron Rosenbaum’s book THE SHAKESPEARE WARS

I found Ron Rosenbaum’s book THE SHAKESPEARE WARS enthralling.   I will use a lot of it.   From college I knew the importance of the iambic pentameter line to an actor in communicating meaning to an audience.   That didn’t mean I paid any attention to the important PAUSE, “that moment for breath, that delicate moment of [...]

Karen Ferguson Tauber-author’s second short story collection released

      Karen Ferguson Tauber’s second short story collection REACHING FOR A NEW LEAF: STORIES OF TEACHERS DANCING WITH FATE has just been released.  In this second collection, the teacher-protagonists seize upon various opportunities in hopes of creating new beginnings.  Throughout the eleven stories, readers gain an awareness of how new life experiences help us to [...]

Playwrights Foundation-Oct. 29,2008 THIS WEEK’S NEWSFLASH

IN THIS WEEK’S NEWSFLASH…

Just Theater presents Current Nobody in a Partnership with Playwrights Foundation
New Play Institute Workshop: Ken Prestininzi
BAPF ‘09: Priority Submission Deadline This Friday!
Playwrights Opportunities
PF on Facebook
 
 
 

Just Theater Presents Current Nobody in a Partnership with Playwrights Foundation
 
Playwrights Foundation’s Producing Partnership Initiative/Commissioning Program has been helping playwrights make the crucial step from development to production [...]

Randy-writer as self-promoter

I tried for a long time to promote my play ON THE EDGE.   Except for readings I arranged, it has not been produced.   Maybe it is because of the nature of the play that it hasn’t been.   Maybe not.   In this regard, actors and members of the audience agreed that the subject matter and the [...]

TusCon 35! The best little Sci-Fi-Fantasy & Horror Convention in Arizona

      Dianna Gabaldon, the New York Times best-selling author of the OUTLANDER series and LORD JOHN books, will be the guest of honor at TusCon 35.  The Sci-Fi, Fantasy &Horror Convention is being held at the InnSuites Hotel (475 N. Granada, Tucson (520-622-3000 or 1-887-446-65890) November 7-9, 2008.
        Meet the authors and artists
        Panel Discusions
        [...]

Randy-Writer named after an Airforce base? True or false?

      My father and mother named me after an airforce base: Randolph Field.   It was where I was born and, for those of you who don’t know, not very far from the Texas hill country where my mother grew up.   “Hill” had more significance to us than a home because down the road from my [...]

Penelope Starr-Odyssy Storytelling event

      Come hear amazing musicians Michael Woodward, Namoli Brennet , John Wakefield, Simon Donovan, Linda Kavak and Marti van der Voort tell their musical stories at Odyssey Storytelling’s WORDS AND MUSIC on Thursday, October 30,  7 – 9 p.m.
     Words and Music ~ we’re adding a twist to our regular format: Stories from the world [...]