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Neil Simon On Playwriting XV
Adapted From Paris Review, The Art of Theater No. 10 Interviewed by James Lipton Walter Kerr gave me one of the best pieces of criticism I’ve ever had. In the first line of his review of The...
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Neil Simon On Playwriting XVI
Adapted From Paris Review, The Art of Theater No. 10 Interviewed by James Lipton I’d call myself a great audience. I’m appreciative of good work, no matter what its form—comedy, drama, musical. I saw...
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Neil Simon On Playwriting XVII
Adapted From Paris Review, The Art of Theater No. 10 Interviewed by James Lipton I’m an uptight man who’s been married to three liberated women. Joan was the first liberated woman I ever met and the...
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The Name Game
The Genius of Paul Rhymer The following short essay about Paul Rhymer’s classic radio program “Vic and Sade,” is one of several I wrote to promote a talk I gave, titled Writing Humorous Dialogue, at...
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Monologue/Dialogue
The Genius of Paul Rhymer I wrote The following essay about Paul Rhymer’s classic radio program “Vic and Sade” on April 20, 1995, to promote a talk I gave at the University of Baltimore. The program...
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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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Today’s Quote
“Sometimes laughter hurts, but humor and mockery are our only weapons.” Jean Cabu, 1938-2015 Cartoonist and co-founder of Charlie Hebdo (Click image for larger view.)
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Cartooning Tip #4
Click image to enlarge. This cartoon tip originally appeared in the January-February 2016 issue of The Cartoon!st, the newsletter of the National Cartoonists Society. All series images and texts are...
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Film Making in Quotes
David Lean was known to say this about the film making process: “I love making motion pictures . . . I love getting behind a camera and trying to get images on the screen. I love cutting and editing. I...
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