Just back from my PlayLabs reading of Yucca Corridor at The Great Plains Theatre Conference. On the plane I was reading a New Yorker and enjoyed this review by&…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 10:24PMand saw that I forgot to post this. Or maybe I lost my nerve. Anyway here's a chestnut from last September.Notes from Arden column about the 99-seat conversation/controversy happening in var…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 02:38AMI must've seen Sonic Youth play this song during the Washing Machine tour. I went with Sarah all the way to Memphis from central Arkansas in what must've been my sophomore year of college. I…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 01:13AMI also had every intention of writing about Luna Gale at the Douglas, but I saw it so long ago my memories of it are fading. I saw it right after Thanksgiving, which must be n…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 11:35PMNot the CTG poster, but the first image that came up on a Google search.I've had every intention of writing a bit about the recent production of What The Butler Saw at the Mark Taper, but th…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 10:56PMand discovered that FWL is a source for what looks like a pretty serious book. Granted, it was a commenter's writing instead of mine that was quoted, but it's still gratifying.The book is&nb…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 12:21AMif I had been a little more active on FWL lately I might've written about how moved I was by his first memoir, My Lives, which I finally got around to reading this year, although it's a…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 04:22PMand where's the self-congratulatory 10-year anniversary post?Looking back on the first posts of FWL, there's nothing to be exceedingly excited or embarrassed about, nothing poignant or momen…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 03:15AMthe 10-year anniversary of FWL, so I thought I'd do a victory lap with a few new posts and then call it a decade.Before I begin, isn't it funny that I started the blog this year with a decla…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 01:02AMFell Swoop Playwrights is presenting two evenings of new plays, one of which includes my new script, Hope House. Come check it out. See below for details. Get haunted. Photo by Emily Raw.Fe…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 02:38PMAt Stories Books in Echo Park. Check out the Facebook invitation here.
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 06:05PMRIP Killer. Join me at the Killer Memorial Benefit on Monday at The Abbey, or buy a Killer t-shirt.
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 03:42AMlast night in an old legal pad and I found this line I jotted down on a page in the middle of the pad. I guess it's still in search of a play.It could be like they do in the movies where you…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 01:11AMwith the posting in July, but I don't know what happened after Outfest ended.Well, I do know that I went up to Sonoma County to hang out with my friend Tony and his family for a bit. I wrote…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 02:22AMWojnarowicz in a photo by Marion ScemamaMy Outfest weekend started at REDCAT last night with a couple of David Wojnarowicz short films. This was a must-see for me, as I just finish…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 02:44PMwhite gays are stealing black female culture business is bizarre to me, mainly because I must've missed the point at which Time Magazine was reduced to looking for op-ed material from c…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 03:50PMFringe vs. Institutional Theater business is that the Fringe is itself an institution, with leadership, community history, community standards, a marketplace, best practices, authoritative v…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 05:40PMwere talking on Twitter about this write-up of shows in the Toronto Fringe Festival by Kelly Nestruck, and he makes some interesting points--It occurred to me around my fifth show this year:…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 02:03PMA little warm-up circle before our last rehearsal.The second and less crazy rehearsal of that day.I'm as proud of The Last Temptation of Paula Deen this year as I am of The Miss Julie Dream …
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 12:33PMthese today.This one's probably the best, as it has Bowie doing Heroes and Generation X starring a 21-year-old Billy Idol, plus and Bowie getting a little silly in the last minute.This one's…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 12:19AMThe Last Temptation of Paula Deen, and it's a good one. Sarah Tuft really gets what we're on about. Here's my favorite quote--[T]his unique brand of co-authorship seems to encourage a layere…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 12:45PMKevin and I spent an afternoon at the Hammer for the Made in L.A. 2014 exhibit. We spent a fair amount of time watching this guy dance to Dionne Warwick. We were both big fans of …
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 12:24PMstaycation, as Kevin is in town and we're running around doing touristy things like getting sunburned on the Channel Islands (well, just one...Santa Cruz) and going to museums and the like. …
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 01:46PMColin's post about supporting theater was fun for me because it took me back to the waning days of the theater blogosphere -- or "theatrosphere," as Parabasis' Isaac Butler used to call it, …
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 01:43AMHey y'all, The Last Temptation of Paula Deen is going great! We've got three more performances; next one is this Sunday at 4pm. Get tickets here.Here are some pics by Luke Gattuso.
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 02:42AMThe Last Temptation of Paula Deen starts tomorrow, y'all. Get yo'selves a ticket.Paula Deen has been really generous to our writing process over the past few months. When I first started thi…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 03:02AMfor The Last Temptation of Paula Deen, which starts on June 6 at 8pm. Get your tickets here.I'm trying to use Instagram somewhat regularly for the first time, so here are a couple of fun pic…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 10:09AMon our crowdfunding campaign for The Last Temptation of Paula Deen, which means I can actually update this page for a change. I suppose I could've done it before, but I figured I'd leave it …
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 12:35AMFell Swoop's new show, The Last Temptation of Paula Deen, is registered for the 2014 Hollywood Fringe! We're going to be at The Lounge Theatre on Santa Monica Blvd, and we're going to be a h…
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