Category: drama
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World Premiere of “Covid Chips” this weekend. Watch online for free!
My new play “Covid Chips” will be part of Gallery Players (Brooklyn) Black Box New Play Festival starting tomorrow, Jan 28 and running through Sunday Jan 31 – streaming daily @ 7:30PM EST. It’s very easy to watch the show. Click on the link below. I wrote this over the summer. It’s a fun little…
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My New Play “Covid Chips” Featured in Upcoming Festival
I’m thrilled to have my new play “Covid Chips” being featured in week 2 of The Gallery Players 24th Annual Black Box New Play Festival. I was approached by one of the co-producers of the event about writing a play specifically for the Zoom format. I am not exactly thrilled about live theatre going online,…
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Now Available: Theatrical Monologues
I just published the fifth volume in the Short Play Collection: Theatrical Monologues for Audition, Classroom, or Stage. It includes more than 50 original short monologues. Most of them were chosen from my myriad plays, but I did end up writing some special ones just specifically for this edition. They are divided by comedic and…
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A Week of Musicals
Boy, I miss live theatre! It must really be coming to a head within me because this has been a week of musicals for me. Yes, I’m one of those rare men who LOVE musicals. The music, the singing, the storyline, the choreography, the dazzling sets, the mood-shifting lights. THE SPECTACLE! and how it affects…
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Three New Play Volumes: Now Available!
I’m happy to announce that I’ve finally compiled and released three new volumes of plays. “Dear High School” is a complete show – with bonus material – all about the trials and triumphs of high school. “Tales of Wonder” is a collection of three complete Christmas shows and 29 plays, which can also be used…
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“What Was It Like?” – Beautiful!
One of my former students – a beautiful person and a beautiful dancer – passed away suddenly this past week. Please keep her grief-stricken family in your prayers. Her father posted many moving dance video tributes to her amazing grace and talent. Here’s one from a rehearsal of my 2014 show RLT Players present “For…
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Three New Play Volumes in the Works
Well, it’s about time. In 2016, I published a volume of plays entitled “Theatrical Duets.” I’ve updated it twice already with new scripts, but I have such a backlog of content to publish that I ended up not doing a follow-up volume to my 2016 release. Well, no more. I have three new play volumes…
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Frodo Is Becoming Obsolete
I started teaching drama and acting right about the time that Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings Trilogy was finishing up. Nearly everyone had seen it, and almost universally raved about it. The characterizations of the film provided the perfect example for me when I attempted to illustrate for my young actors what it means…
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My Play This Weekend in Penang: Grade Semantics
My play “Grade Semantics” hits the stage this weekend as part of the Short & Sweet Theatre Festival in Penang, Malaysia. This is a play that I’ve produced twice myself, and it’s a hit — especially with students and teachers. I’ve even had a HS counselor tell me after watching it that the farcical…
Author Mark W Sasse 