Stage Writes
The Official Stage Rights Blog
In the theatre world, we take on so much - from one production to another, juggling schedules and plans and calendars, troubleshooting issues that arise, managing other people. And for those of us involved with community theatre, we likely also have full-time, unrelated day jobs. Add in other obligations, hobbies, families, and it feels non-stop. Emails and calls build up, unanswered; invites and events unattended; forgetting to follow up with a ...
"Mike and Molly's" Louis Mustillo Talks BARTENDERS
Louis Mustillo has had a prolific career. This actor turned playwright as been seen on TV in hit shows such as as "Man of the People" with James Garner, Steven Spielberg's "High Incident," and perhaps is best known for his re-occurring roles on the Emmy Award-winning series' "The Sopranos" and "Mike and Molly." I had the pleasure of talking with Louis Mustillo about his play Bartenders and got the inside scoop about what prompted him to write about this often misunderstood profession. Q: What inspired you to become a writer? A: It wasn’t until I started auditioning ...
10 Questions For Brian M. Fenty, Chairman & Co-Founder of TodayTix
1) Why did you go to the LA Weekly first for an interview? Nobody reads the LA Weekly anymore? Don’t you know they are as about as in-touch with LA Theater as the out-of-touch LA Times? What were you thinking? BF: Our mission is to introduce theater to everyone, including the “out-of-touch” ones. But, anyway, here I am at Bitter Lemons. The big leagues. :) 1a) Okay, that wasn’t really a question, more like an outburst, but thank you for making us feel good. So, the real first...
The Salmon Surveyor
Bømlo Teater is an amateur theatre on a relatively small municipally on the west-coast of Norway. There are 12,000 inhabitants located on a labyrinth of 1007 big and small islands. With a wide horizon stretching out beyond the land, the locals are immensely proud of this place they call home. Many of the inhabitants work offshore, as part of the oil-industry or farming Salmon (delivering...
Awwwwww yeah, guess who’s back?! That’s right, I’m back at Bitter Lemons and quoting rap lyrics in honor of Hamilton, the mega-hit Broadway show currently holding fast to the zeitgeist and riding it like a flaming rocketship to the moon. Lin-Manuel Miranda and friends are deservedly awash in superlatives, but the one that interests me the most is this: It has the most listenable musical soundtrack I’ve ever heard. And this particular