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So, I watched the table read from the beach and wanted to talk first impressions while it's fresh in my mind! The deep dive comes later -- for now, here's me being first-impression optimistic with what I saw! (Remind me about the optimism after the dramaturgs have their say!)

Get it right, Eumaeus, or I will jab you with my very long index finger! We're still working toward a staged reading in early 2027. Little details like where and when are still in flux (but I'll let you, the teeming dozens, know!) The staged reading caps a year-long development project. It's yielded a very different script, with far more humanity balancing its satirical focus on the Odyssey. Holistically, while it's a hell of a show to sum up in a synopsis, its parts are yiel

Here's what Nolan had to do, what he chose to do (that I really liked,) and what he couldn't do that I could, given the differences in the forms.

I apologize to the teeming dozens. I've posted nothing new since February, and my understanding is that there is no worse sin in today's world than silence. But to be fair, I've been intensively engaged in this show's developmental journey, and I mean intensively. We're now approaching the show's second table read, to be held in the Dallas-Fort Worth area sometime in July 2026, ahead of a staged reading, also in the DFW area, to be held late in 2026 or early in 2027. From t

"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

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

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