G.L.Horton's Stage Page

G.L. spoke to Larry Stark, of Theater Mirror, a while back and I'm just getting around to posting SOME of the hour and a half they recorded. More will come along later. For those of you just joining us, I'd like to recommend you work your way back from the top, rather than forward from the bottom. That way you get the better shows first. Also included, is this monologue from G.L.'s Revolutionary War docu-drama, Boston's Brothers.

We posted the earlier part of this discussion a while back, the part with G.L. talking with Donna Spector, Anne Pecaro and Farzana Moon. This is the second half of the conversation, G.L. is talking with Vicki Cheatwood and Mrinalini Kamath.

On a sunny Sunday in October, the International Centre for Women Playwrights' Board Secretary, Jan Watts of Birmingham England, was in Boston visiting family. She had a few hours free to meet with Geralyn and, after a walking tour of Boston's Emerald Necklace, Back Bay, and the Common, to record an interview about her theatrical adventures and her plans for a cooperative project between ICWP and the New Plays programme of the Birmingham Rep.

On the way home from the ICWP Summer Retreat, G.L. recorded a conversation she had with Professor Alan Woods. They started out talking about the retreat, then moved on to more generic theatrical topics. That conversation is followed by my reading of a monolog from G.l.Horton's Stage Page Web Site, from the mouth-offs page.

Several of the playwrights got together toward the end of the Retreat and discussed the what, why and how as they enjoyed it.

G.L. talks about the imminent I.C.W.P. Retreat she is about to attend at OSU. Oh, and I read another monolog!

G.L. talks with Regina Eliot-Ramsey about the upcoming S.W.A.N. Day presentation - 2 PM, Saturday, 28 March, Boston Playwrights' Theater.

Geralyn reads the short play she will be reading at the S.W.A.N. Day presentation, Saturday, the 28th of March, at the Boston Playwright's Theater.

In this interview, Regina Eliot-Ramsey speaks with Geralyn about the Our Voices Together showcase, the ICWP, Playwright's Platform and the Platform's showcase, and Geralyn's experience Off Broadway with Martha Mitchell.

This past Sunday I announced that Geralyn will be performing Martha Mitchell just Off-Broadway in a bit over a week. Actually, did I even give the date? And I got the name of the theater wrong. It's the West End Theater, 263 West 86th Street, NYC - that's an easy walk from the corner of Broadway and West End Ave. April 19th, at 8 PM or April 20th at 3 PM. Hope you can make it.

Geralyn will be taking Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfarro's musical Martha Mitchell, in Mostly Her Own Words to the West End Theater in New York City April 19th.

G.L. had another reading of her play Best Practice. She has decided to have both a 10-minute, 2-character, version - this, when trimmed - and a longer version with five characters. This is a work-in-progress, read at Playwrights' Platform by experienced actors.

We recently stopped in at the Newton Community Access Cable studios to talk with Regina Ramsey about the latest production of G.L.'s Beyond Measure, which seems to be developing unexpected legs. Written for an character in her late 50s and another in her late 30s, its recent productions have been performed by much younger actresses. What can I say ... a production is a production is a joy to behold.

I've just been told many Windows users - about 3/4 of our audience - cannot see the Chapter Art and Related Links I've been including with our shows. I thought I'd checked that, apparently not well enough. Here's a link that will lead you to a page offering a free plug-in recommended by a Podomatic.com system administrator. 3ivx If you can already see the art change during the shows ... "never mind". Dave

G.L. was told of a ten-minute play contest ... Must ... Enter! ... so she decided to adapt a portion of her latest play for it. Five characters were cut to two and a whole lot of scenes were removed. She brought it to her Newton Playwright's group and ... and then they discussed it. We have the reading, followed by a couple of news bits.

This episode focuses on a play G.L. has been working on for ages, held back by a lack of available research material - despite nearly 20,000 references to Susanna Centlivre in a Google search. A section of what she has written to date was read at a recent meeting of playwrights, then discussed. Send G.L. an email if you happen to have a source of Centlivre direct quotes from her political or personal writings.

G.L. had a bunch of e-mails from students and educators. We found a few to answer on the show. We found room for a monologue from Fantasia for String Trio (Jonathan Donahue), and one from Beyond Measure (Geralyn Horton), and one from Conventional Behavior (David Meyer).

This conversation took place following the Playwrights' Platform pre-season board meeting, where plans were laid for the upcoming season. Among the participants were Kelly DuMar, Chris King, Gail Phaneuf, Phylis Ritter. And, of course, G.L.Horton.

This week we are talking about e-mail G.L. has passed along. All involve either this podcast or her site, though ... no two are the same.

The second part of the late-night discussion, this part focusing on the dilemmas a playwright faces in trying to write and get produced.

Half a dozen of the ladies at the ICWP Retreat followed G.L. home about half-way through their stay ... and they talked. This is the first dozen or so minutes of the half-hour chat, more will follow next week.

While G.L. is still away, I tend to take it easy. This week we have a short interview with Jonothan Donahue followed by a reading he did with us of an excerpt from the full length play,

My wife has gone off to the ICWP Retreat at OSU. We talk about that right after the reading by Jonathan Donohue.

G.L. and Lydia take a moment to sip iced coffee on our screen-porch and discuss the project near and dear to them - a one-woman show about Mumbet.

Larry wants to change the way theater is seen in Boston. Most importantly, he'd like to point many more of you towards going to the smaller theaters. The theaters that rent their spaces to companies that lack their own. He'd like help in Making it Happen.

We've had a busy week. Helping with a production in Palo Alto, California for next week - see Vagabond for the details - and finalizing a reading of G.L.'s latest in Boston at 7PM Sunday, the 8th. We'll make sure the script gets posted to Stage Page as soon as possible.

If you think you missed an episode last week, you're only partly correct. We lost our house broadband for over three painful days and couldn't have posted a show if we had on to post. We have been punished by a slight drop in our numbers. Good thing we don't rely on ad revenue, eh? G.L. and I discuss what happened this past week. The play will be up on the Stage Page site shortly after it's public reading ... if it's ready.

We celebrated the passing of our friend "Prof" Will Stackman at the Cambridge River Festival, on the banks of the Charles River, yesterday. We shared stories and read several of his short plays. We came away feeling better, which is what I believe he would have wanted. I managed to record some of it and edited the best of it down to present here.

Our friend and colleague, Will Stackman, died last Sunday. His work can still be seen at On the Aisle and there will be a celebration of his life next Saturday, June 16th, at the Cambridge River Festival on the banks of the Charles River. Anyone may attend...

Wyn Snow, G.L.'s web mistress and one of our show's early guests, returned to discuss our current status. Her earlier show - Getting On The Web - still averages a couple downloads a day. Every day, every week, every month. If your small business needs a boost on the web, call her for help.

Nearly skipped this one. It's a day for Vets like me to relax and enjoy life. Which I was doing at my son's after-the-fact birthday bash when I got a chance to record some things. Couldn't hold myself back.

Today we had a visit from Sue Brody: actress, playwright, and Yoga student. She read a pair of G.L.'s mouth-offs for us, Geralyn provided two more, and we were good! Will Stackman provided his usual "week in Boston" script.

Just a simple show this week. We start with what's happening on the Boston Theater scene with a list by Prof Will Stackman, move on to the short play in one act The Lost Prince of Paradise, then we get out. Robert Bonato and Geralyn Horton read the play.

This show, we present the short One-Act, One More Time, as read by Geralyn Horton and Noel Armstrong. Of course, we also have Will Stackman's list of shows playing in the Boston Area and another letter from G.L.'s In-Box.

This week we offer two Minute Mouthoffs and a reading of a Monologue from Autumn Leaves, a short one-act play. Katie Curlie and I read the first two, Geralyn the third. We include, of course, a quick list of what's playing in Boston this week, a list compiled for us by Will Stackman.

This week we have a conversation G.L. had with Alan Woods, one of the movers and shakers of the ICWP. They discuss the ICWP Celebration he organized in Ohio as well as other topics near and dear to the hearts of not-quite-famous playwrights the world over. Check for the latest monologues at G.L.Horton's Stage Page.

We have another reading by E Grace Noonan, this week. She read The 12:22 Brighton from London/Victoria for us. We also have notes from Prof Will and a few words from me.

We offer you a short one-act Play, this week ... titled A Late Lunch. Katie Curley has delivered yet another excellent performance and we finally managed to get E Grace Noonan to put in an appearance. E played this same role when A Late Lunch appeared on-stage at a Playwrites' Platform Festival of One-Acts. She was excellent then, too.

Not much of a show today. Just a dozen or so minutes of Geralyn interviewing Letitia Sweitzer in O'Lunney's Irish Pub on 45th Street. Sorry about the background noise and all, couldn't really ask them all to keep it to a low roar, now, could she? We also have Will Stackman's weekly report on what's playing.

Just one real item this week: the wrap-up interview on the ICWP Celebration project. G.L. spent four days and three nights in the NYC/NJ vicinity as a playwright, actress, and over-all celebrity. She saw broadway actors in the audience - applauding her! Check out Stage Page for details.

One more weekend until the end of the ICWP celebration - I can celebrate for myself next month. This week we have: This Week in Boston/On the Aisle Katie Curley reading F.E.'s monolog from Conventional Behavior G.L. talking about getting permission to do her work. Anabel Graetz reading a Minute Mouth-Off and ME, asking more questions.

We have two monologues and a short one-act this week. Katie Curley starts off with Maria, from Under Siege, followed by Perry Persoff reading The Blooming Cycles followed by the two of them reading And The Lion Shall Lie Down With .... And, of course, there's the weekly roundup of what's worth seeing in Boston.

Today we offer three readers. Anabel Graetz has been with us before, she reads a Mouth-Off about possible economic collapse. Katie Curley has also been with us before. This time she has our Featured one-act ... In the Livery of the Immortals. Perry Persoff is here for the first time. He has a background in radio and sound production, with on-air stints locally at WXRV "The River" and WZLX. He also does voiceover work, being especially fond of character voices and dialects. Originally from California, Perry has lived in Boston since 1997. But he's been a Red Sox fan for longer, so feel free to send him tickets... That said, he wanted to give Greg's Ghost Story from Cast Spell a shot, and I wanted to hear another version of it - we both got our wishes. I got to write the calendar today, Will had the flu. He's still posting his reviews at On the Aisle, so visit him there.

Last week we celebrated Geralyn as a playwright, reading three pieces from her play, The Prophet Freeman. This week we are celebrating her organizational skills. She has spent much of the past month and change working to insure that the International Centre for Women Playwrights celebration, starting next week, is a success. We won't talk about it next week, or the week after ... bad form, and all that ... don't you know? ;) G.L. will post notes to her web site StagePage.Info ... IF the reviews are great. Else ...

We had Katie Curley over yesterday. She and Geralyn book-ended the long monologue read by Anonymous and snail-mailed to us on a CD. She also read a monologue from Conventional Behavior and a couple of minute-mouth-offs ... What an afternoon! Katie had to scoot, something about James and the Giant Peach opening next week at the Stadium Theatre in Woonsocket, R.I., she's playing a ... spider? The role Susan Sarandon had in the movie? I guess if it's a big enough part for Susan, it could offer Katie room to stretch. We hope to have her back before Hollywood calls. You can get a broader taste of the script for "Prophet" here, the whole script is available from the author - leave a comment with contact details.

This week we feature a reading of the short play In The Dark - "Two people who have been very close go on retreat at a New Age summer camp and come to a crossroads in their relationship." We also have our This Week in Boston clip, thanks to Will Stackman and a special message from G.L. to a young man nice enough to ask to use some of her shorter plays.

This week G.L. interviews fellow Boston playwright, Kelly Dumar. Kelly had just finished taping her play "Bloom" at the Newton Community Access TV station and the interview is to be a companion piece for that show. We also have our weekly line-up of shows in and around Boston. We are looking for actors to record some of G.L.'s ten minute plays. Should you know of anyone who will be in the Boston area and who might be interested, contact G.L.Horton at Mindspring dot com.

Another monologue read by Lois, a discussion of the high barriers to entry for new plays, and an update on what's playing in and around Boston this week.

We attended the Arisia Science Fiction Convention in Boston this weekend. Great time, much to discuss, much to learn, much to catch up on, much networking to accomplish. We networked our way to several contacts and at least one interview of interest. A hallway in the middle of an active convention hotel is not a good place to attempt to record something, and I might have done better. But ... then we came home and watched the Patriots barely manage to win their game with the Chargers. It was a good weekend.

Welcome to our first show of the New Year. It's 2007 and things seem to be starting out on the right foot. Geralyn performed Martha Mitchell, in mostly her own words at our local church and was greeted by SRO crowds! And they laughed in the right places and asked intelligent questions afterwards! Geralyn spoke with Larry Stark afterwards, about the play, the personality, the times, and related topics. You can contact him at Larry @ TheaterMirror . com ... he welcomes reviews he can post to his web site.

This week we feature an interview G.L. recorded with Boston theater activist and fellow playwright Kate Snodgrass, a reading by Jeremy Cook-Williams, and the theater news for the Boston area for the coming week. I don't know how many ways to say this, but We Want Feedback ! Comments, suggestions, disagreements, readings of G.L.'s monologues, requests to do her plays ... please send any or all to G.L.Horton at Mindspring dot com and we'll be happy to respond.