More From Larry David on 'Fish in the Dark'

February 18, 2015
Another interview with Larry David, this time from the New York Times, on his Broadway play 'Fish in the Dark'. 

“Curb” is improvised, but this play is not. Is it more of a challenge to be scripted?

It’s one of the reasons I didn’t like acting. I don’t like not being able to interject. I don’t like waiting to talk. You have to wait for the other person to finish with his lines. But I have to say the rehearsal process, much to my amazement, has been fun. I enjoyed it. I didn’t expect to.

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Playwrights on What They've Learned

February 18, 2015
From the New York Times five graduates of Brooklyn College’s master of fine arts programme in playwriting describe what they've learned from course leader Mac Wellman. 

“When I was struggling to write my first play, he told me to write the worst play I could, and that had a huge impact on every play I’ve written since. Mac taught me how to defeat my inner critic and just write.”

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Larry David on his Broadway Debut

February 17, 2015
Larry David talks to Playbill about his Broadway play 'Fish in the Dark'.

"They had a couple show albums in the house," he says of his parents. "They had My Fair Lady and Oklahoma! and Flower Drum Song. They were in the stereo cabinet. We never saw a show. We never went once. I don't think I saw a show until I was 20 or 21. I think it was Hair."

Okay. So the theatre bug never bit young Larry. Then why a play now, at the ripe age of 67? Credit the late Nora Ephron.
"I saw Nora Ephron's play, Luck...

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How To Make it as a Playwright

February 17, 2015
In today's Guardian, playwright Zodwa Nyoni explains how she got started in playwriting. 

Make lists
I started to build lists over time. I researched theatre companies in my region. I signed-up to mailing lists and received information on current and upcoming seasons. I looked up the actors, directors and writers working with these companies. I read and watched theatre. I followed people on social media and as a result widened the field to producers, artistic directors, literary associates, com...

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An Irishman Abroad

February 16, 2015
I've recently started listening to comedian Jarlath Regan's podcast An Irishman Abroad. The hook is pretty self explanatory. Irish people, or second generation Irish people talk about moving abroad to work. The series started off as comedians and comedy writers, but quickly came to take in footballers, playwrights, boxers and others who moved from Ireland to earn their living in England or other countries. Regan also writes about the people he interviews in the Irish Post. This is his interv...
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On Overturning the Alcohol Ban in Scottish Football Grounds

February 15, 2015
Scottish Labour announced recently that they are holding a consultation into the reintroduction of alcohol to Scottish football grounds. 

I'm happy to agree that Jim Murphy is using this debate as a tool to win back voters that Scottish Labour betrayed during the Referendum. I dare say there's been long talks on what issue would get lapsed Labour supporters back behind them, and this is what they've come up with. I think they've badly misjudged that. There are far more important issues around ...
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Saturday the 14th

February 14, 2015
It gets bad on Friday the 13th. But it gets worse on...Saturday the 14th. 


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Mike Shoemaker's SNL Photo Archive

February 13, 2015


With Saturday Night Live approaching its 40th birthday celebration this weekend former producer Mike Shoemaker looked through his archive of photos and posted many of them to Twitter.

Storify has them all rounded up.
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SNL at 40

February 12, 2015
With Saturday Night Live's 40th Anniversary coming up Alan Sepinwall at HitFix picks 21 sketches to illustrate the show's history. However, all of the video links in the article don't allow the sketches to be played outside of the United States. Some of the sketches, like White Like Me below, can be found on YouTube.

The write-up itself is worthy of a read.

"You can look at the sixth season of "SNL" — the first made without any of the original actors, and without Lorne Michaels himself — ...

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The Slab Boys

February 11, 2015
I was in a production of The Slab Boys in 2010. As such it's a play I've read multiple times, and I've been to see other productions of it. I'm going along to see the latest production at the Citizens next week.

In this video by Urbancroft Productions writer John Byrne and director David Hayman talk about the history of the play and what to expect from the latest show.


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