(Not that it matters too much now, but this post contains some spoilers for the final performances of No One Else Will Ever Love You.)
Here are seven things I’ve learned since stepping into the director’s role at the beginning of this project:
1. As a journalist, especially an arts writer, it’s easy to forget the difference [...]

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Yeah, I slept totally awesome last night. No anxiety dreams here. Nuh-uh.
Also: 100 minutes until call time. Still need a run to the supermarket and CopyMax.
Also, also: I take a rare trip to the other side of the voice recorder in an interview conducted by Bastion Carboni for Austinist.

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Been on radio silence here for a week or so, now that rehearsals are underway for No One Else Will Ever Love You, the play that Kat wrote and I’m directing. It’s coming along very well, and my latest project affiliated with it has been the website, www.nooneelsewilleverloveyou.com. You can buy tickets there, and read [...]

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Took another two weeks off from the blog without even noticing it.
It’s funny how busy life gets without you even really noticing it. Kat and I moved into a new place last week, which derailed things a bit, and I’m up in Indianapolis since last Thursday, which derailed things further. I’ve been doing my [...]

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  I mentioned earlier that I’m directing a play in the late part of the summer. It’s an original work that Kat wrote called ‘No One Else Will Ever Love You’, and it has four actors and takes place in real-time in a living room.
The piece is intimate and voyeuristic (and, since Kat wrote [...]

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I was a theater kid in high school, but only because no one else would have me. I grew to develop a genuine interest in it during my time there, but I wouldn’t have ever declared it a passion. Mostly it was just a place to hang out.
Once Kat and I got together, that [...]

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To wash the bad taste of the play we saw last night out of my mouth, I insisted tonight to Kat that we must go see the lord of the rings musical. For people whose main interest in theatre has been as a powerfully intimate storytelling medium, this is a radical departure. I’m happy to [...]

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We went to see the last days of judas iscariot last night. It’s a new play by Stephen Adly Guirgis, directed by Rupert Goold. They’re two of the hottest shits in international theatre right now. Goold’s previous production of macbeth, with Patrick Stewart, was the best-reviewed London show of last year, and Guirgis winning Olivier [...]

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