To appropriate a quote from Tennessee Williams, “Sometimes—there’s Godot—so quickly!” But also, sometimes, life just happens, and you...

The first thing I panicked about was pencils. Pencils! Did I even own a pencil? When was the last time I even used a pencil? A pencil, a...

It has been an anxiety-riddled year trying to prepare for an anxiety-riddled play. In a little less than two months, I will be playing...

In terms of publications, it's been a lucky year! Recently, an enterprising editor founded Mini Plays Review: An International Journal of...

I recently got the exciting news that a short play of mine, Approaching the Summer Sun, is slated for publication in the first issue of...

For the next two weeks, in honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, I continue to celebrate my mentor and teacher...

For the next few weeks, in honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, I will celebrate my mentor and teacher David...

I actually believe I first saw film footage of another monk setting himself on fire before I had even heard of Thích Quảng Đức, the...

On March 28, 1997, I sat down at my desk and wrote a one act play. It wasn’t the first play I wrote exactly, but it was the first one to...

Stephen Sondheim was taken from us in late 2021, but since his posthumous cameo in Glass Onion, the wildly uneven follow-up to Knives...

I get into obsessions. After weeks of reading Browning’s poetry, I’ll switch to Sondheim and there will be weeks of listening, humming,...

Everyone has apprentice plays. Most people don’t know Eugene O’Neill and Tennessee Williams wrote dozens of plays (rarely performed now)...

For the last few weeks, I've been sharing my favorite works of art. These were not necessarily my answers to "What is the best movie/tv...

I tried to understand cats for years. The animals, I mean. I’m such an animal lover now that most people would be horrified to know I was...

When I heard the Queen, my lords, was dead and Charles was indeed to take the throne (I had always figured he’d abdicate in favor of...

I don’t know whether I’ve always championed small town papers because I value their content or whether it was because I happened to be...

A flop can close in one night or a week—a couple perhaps. On Broadway, that is. The West End is not known for too many gregariously long...

How do you follow up a colossal megahit like The Phantom of the Opera? That must have been the question on Andrew Lloyd Webber’s mind...

In the 1960s-70s, the world of musical theatre changed rapidly. The introduction of rock and roll all but decimated the days when a...

I was in Jean Randich’s classroom at Bennington. I thought she was wild and wonderful. She was what I imagined when I dreamed up a New...