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Find The Beginning
"Find the Beginning," my first imperfect lyric video of both After Every Dream and the included play-within-the-play, "The O.G. and the Aegean." I should warn sensitive viewers that I had a field day with pointless effects, and that the above video might lead to a good old-fashioned seizure. I began fiddling with this format after the last Song Salon ( mentioned here ), in which I noticed that many of the other songwriters were including lyric videos. That leads me to the nex
dhalberstein
Feb 62 min read


Post-New York Updates
Breakfast of champions. Welcome back, the week after Times Square. By the time we made it back to Alexandria Monday night, I definitely felt like I was coming down with something. But I felt well enough Tuesday morning to make my kickoff call with dramaturgs @Trent Clifford and @Rowan Gilvie who are working on a development program for Dream. We're shooting for another table read in late spring, locking the script by mid-summer, and a staged reading by this fall, location TBD
dhalberstein
Jan 132 min read


After Every Dream, The Blog
Goodbye for now, Times Square It's Monday, January 5, 2025, and Julia and I are saying a fond goodbye to Times Square, where we and other undesirables gathered beginning on January 2 to take advantage of the low, low post-ball-drop rates. In answer to your question, we saw Aladdin (not my cup of tea,) Operation Mincemeat (from Row B, thank you very much, which made my neck hurt, but gave me the feeling that a British woman was shouting at me at close quarters, which had an od
dhalberstein
Jan 52 min read
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