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Double Indemnity By Fred Maddox (Click images for larger views.) The “Hip Shots” series of photographs will feature images that were grabbed “on the fly,” with little or no regard for framing and...
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Double Indemnity II By Fred Maddox (Click images for larger views.) The “Hip Shots” series of photographs will feature images that were grabbed “on the fly,” with little or no regard for framing and...
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An actor waiting backstage can appear to be a lonely person, at least this one did to me. Was he feeling sad, I wondered, or just focused on trying to remember his lines? On February 20, 1982, when I...
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Double Indemnity III By Fred Maddox (Click images for larger views.) The “Hip Shots” series of photographs will feature images that were grabbed “on the fly,” with little or no regard for framing and...
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Casablanca By Fred Maddox (Click images for larger views.) The “Hip Shots” series of photographs will feature images that were grabbed “on the fly,” with little or no regard for framing and focus. The...
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Many people attracted to community theater—as actors or to work backstage—are involved for only a limited time, anything from the run of one production to a few years. Volunteering to work on a play,...
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Casablanca II By Fred Maddox (Click images for larger views.) The “Hip Shots” series of photographs will feature images that were grabbed “on the fly,” with little or no regard for framing and focus....
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Casablanca III By Fred Maddox (Click images for larger views.) The “Hip Shots” series of photographs will feature images that were grabbed “on the fly,” with little or no regard for framing and focus....
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It’s not what you think. The guy flat on his back on the small stage of Baltimore’s Spotlighter’s Theater, is Tom Karras, director of “Zorba.” On top is Joe Cimino, playing the title character. I...
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Casablanca IV By Fred Maddox (Click images for larger views.) The “Hip Shots” series of photographs will feature images that were grabbed “on the fly,” with little or no regard for framing and focus....
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Today’s Gag
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Baseball
The Genius of Paul Rhymer The following short essay about Paul Rhymer’s classic radio program “Vic and Sade” was written to promote a talk I gave titled Writing Humorous Dialogue at the Institute for...
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One-Minute Memoir
Warren and Me By Bob Fleishman Walking up Madison Avenue in November of 1972, I spied what had to be two of the so-called “beautiful people” one often sees in New York City, standing on the corner just...
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Anton Chekhov on Playwriting
Adapted from Playwrights on Playwriting Edited by Toby Cole Try to be original in your play and as clever as possible; but don’t be afraid to show yourself foolish; we must have freedom of thinking,...
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William Butler Yeats on Playwriting
Adapted from Playwrights on Playwriting Edited by Toby Cole What attracts me to drama is that it is, in the most obvious way, what all the arts are upon a last analysis . . . . a moment of intense...
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John Galsworthy on Playwriting
Adapted from Playwrights on Playwriting Edited by Toby Cole A drama must be shaped so as to have a spire of meaning. In the whole range of the social fabric there are only two impartial persons, the...
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George Bernard Shaw on Playwriting
Adapted from Playwrights on Playwriting Edited by Toby Cole The formula for the well made play is so easy that I give it for the benefit of any reader who feels tempted to try his hand at making the...
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Bertolt Brecht on Playwriting
Adapted from Playwrights on Playwriting Edited by Toby Cole “Theatre” consists of this: in making live representations of reported or invented happenings between human beings, and doing so with a view...
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Bertolt Brecht on Playwriting II
Adapted from Playwrights on Playwriting Edited by Toby Cole I who am writing this write it on a machine which at the time of my birth was unknown. I travel in the new vehicles with a rapidity that my...
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Bertolt Brecht on Playwriting III
Adapted from Playwrights on Playwriting Edited by Toby Cole Our own period, which is transforming nature in so many and different ways, takes pleasure in understanding things so that we can intervene....
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