don’t often post about my day job at Stoneham Theatre on this blog, because I know there isn’t much crossover between my gentle readers and the average Stoneham Theatre patron. However, the next show in our season is FOR you people. Yes, you improvisers! Yes, you young professionals! You cynics and dreamers and artists and scholars! This is for you!
The show is called THE SPARROW, and instead of duplicating information, I’ll just point you to the official website: stonehamtheatre.org. It’s a theatre piece. Don’t be fooled by its superficial resemblance to HEROES (which is a terrible show, by the way). THE SPARROW is very physical, very visual, very hip and contemporary and smart and all the things you expect from live theatre. It’s being directed by the creator and original director, Nathan Allen. The show sold out its original run at The House Theatre of Chicago, then had a critically acclaimed revival at Chicago’s Apollo. That was in 2007. We’re mounting the East Coast Premiere this month.
The show only runs for three weeks, from October 22 - November 8. Tickets are going fast. You can order them on the website (best available seating) or call the box office at 781.279.2200. If you order online, use the discount code HELLOSPARROW to get $10 off a full-price ticket.
ou know that independent television pilot I’ve been blabbing about for a year? The one with the big title treatment on this page? It’s done. It’s off to festival submissions. It’s screening in Cambridge on Columbus Day, for free, and if you’re reading this you’re invited.
UNBALANCED Screening
9pm, Columbus Day (October 12)
ImprovBoston
40 Prospect St, Cambridge MA 02139
This is what a year’s worth of work looks like in timeline format. I know you want to see what it looks like in video format.
Memorial Day weekend was the biggest, most ambitious filming block for the pilot, and I’m happy to write that it was a success. We shot about half of the script in a single long weekend, thanks to the preparedness, efficiency, and talent of everybody involved.
There are still two weekends of shooting to go, but the schedules are a little more relaxed, and the technical demands of the scenes are fewer (fingers crossed). Onward!
If you’re buying tickets online, make sure you have the right date selected—the ticketing service is a little difficult to parse. Hope to see you in New York!
-A spectacular Del Close Marathon
-A weird and wonderful five-day vacation to Los Angeles
-A majestic three-day vacation to Acadia National Park
-A sweaty photo shoot for Michelle Barbera’s sitcom pilot
-The angsty completion of two very different drafts of my own television pilot script
-A sad farewell to Jason and Jessica, now Boston expatriates
-A celebratory engagement brunch with my two families
-Two birthdays, a handful of headshots, and giddy wedding planning shoved into every nook and cranny….
September’s calendar is forecasted to be less dense, but a return to the ImprovBoston Mainstage will keep me busy, as will more writing/revising, the kickoff of work’s main stage season, and a quick GRE prep course (like, barf).
I hope to be able to codify the month of August into some interesting reading. I’m writing like crazy, but none of it seems to be in blog format. So, until I can summon the strength to reflect, here are some pictures from August…
Acadia at Dusk
Acadia at Noon
Code Duello @ DCM10
Code Duello @ DCM10 Pageant costume fitting Pageant choreography rehearsal
“This Blue Earth” photo shoot
don’t often post about my day job at Stoneham Theatre on this blog, because I know there isn’t much crossover between my gentle readers and the average Stoneham Theatre patron. However, the next show in our season is FOR you people. Yes, you improvisers! Yes, you young professionals! You cynics and dreamers and artists and scholars! This is for you!
ou know that independent television pilot I’ve been blabbing about for a year? The one with the big title treatment on this page? It’s done. It’s off to festival submissions. It’s screening in Cambridge on Columbus Day, for free, and if you’re reading this you’re invited.
Syndicate
