Mark and I just got back from a quick weekend in LA. Drove out through Las Vegas, had a delicious meal in the Tower restaurant at the Paris with scrumptious crepes the next morning. Delivered the car we were driving to my stepson and helped him get set-up in his new apartment in West Hollywood, … Read more
For all the places in the world that need water… and I know there are many…I apologize in advance… And for all those who have more water than there boots can hold, I ask your forgiveness…but sitting at my desk overlooking another dreary spring day is finally getting to me. Okay, so I shouldn’t complain. … Read more
Yeah, the times are a-changin’. Used to be it was virtually impossible to get your plays read by a publisher. That is, unless you had an agent or significant production history…like a play on Broadway. But with an onslaught of new play publishers, scripts are being scarfed up like rent controlled apartments Gli ricerca più … Read more
The new year started with a bang. We had a great New Year’s Eve party here at our home in Montana. I stayed up till five in the morning the night before making five different types of desserts, only one of which I had ever made before. Following “The Joy of Cooking” cookbook I found … Read more
It’s been a long time coming, but Heartland Plays, Inc. is finally going live with our new website! What started as a 30 day revamp of our website has turned into a four-month programming extravaganza. The initial drop dead deadline for launching the new site was right in line with my trip to Venice Beach, … Read more
I have a terrible cold. My third cold this year. I haven’t had a cold for ages. Working with kids in the theatre training program in Danville, Kentucky seems to have given me some sort of natural immunity…until now. Out here in Montana they must grow their own western strain of bugs and they love … Read more
It’s 2010. 2010! How can that be? An entire decade into a new century. A hundred years since George Bernard Shaw wrote Misalliance… 1400 years after some scholars say Shakespeare penned A Winter’s Tale and two thousand four hundred and forty years since Sophocles etched out Oedipus the King. And yet perhaps the greatest tragedy … Read more
It’s been a wild summer. More busy than I might have liked, chock full of this, that, and the other which correlates to not enough time to do the things you want to do once you find them. Of course, that fall off the jet ski didn’t help. Nothing slows you down faster than a … Read more
With feedback from business friends, associates, The Dramatists Guild and other theatre professionals, Heartland Plays is doing its best to work out kinks in our contract so that more playwrights will feel confident signing with a publisher with an unproven track record. In return, Heartland Plays will continue to offer opportunities for playwrights whose work … Read more
Boy, did I get an eye opener last week. One of our authors tipped me to a forum for plays and playwrights where he thought I could post our call for submissions. Little did I know that Heartland Plays, Inc. would fall victim to attack because we have (but are waiving as we build our … Read more