TAG Blog (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Or should have, with the number of books he signed Wendesday night at the Samuel French Theatre and Book Store in Studio City. The lines were long from the time the doors opened until the whistle blew at 9:00 p.m. and Eric took a break from drawing and writing in a jillion different copies of his book. Kudos to the Samuel French Theatre and Creative Talent Network (topkicked by animation veteran Tina...
Cartoon Brew (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
If you miss Eric Goldberg’s signing at the San Diego Comic Con Thursday - at Stuart Ng’s booth (Booths #5012 and #5022) between 2-4 (and again Friday, Saturday 11-12 noon) - he’ll be signing his book one more time in Los Angeles. On Wednesday night, August 6th, between 7-9pm at the Samuel French Bookshop in [...]
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 21/04/2008
Resurrecting "Coco" from the dead required ingenuity and detective work. According to Greg MacKellan, 42nd Street Moon's co-artistic director, the show was never registered with Samuel French, Inc., or any other company that licenses performing rights for...
PlayBill (Free subscription) | 04/02/2008
Samuel French to Publish Morillo's Marriage Hearse and Angry Young WomenThe plays of Matt Morillo – Angry Young Women in Low Rise Jeans With High Class Issues and All Aboard the Marriage Hearse – will be published by Samuel French. The publishing company picked up the new works from Morillo, who is currently represented with the extended run of All Aboard the Marriage Hearse at the Theater for the...
Metroblogging Los Angeles (Free subscription) | 19/12/2007
Jason Burns : If there's one store in L.A. where you can find something for everyone on your list, it's probably Samuel French . Books and gifts for actors, writers, directors, musicians, agents, teachers, etc. There isn't much parking in the alley behind Sam French, so park at the Big 5 across Radford on Ventura Place. FYI: They're closed Dec. 24-25 and Dec. 31 - Jan 1. Continued reading Secret LA...
Hearts & Minds (Free subscription) | 13/11/2007
It's been a while (so long that since the last post, TLPA has even given up smoking!), and thoughts have largely moved away from H&M. The Crescent's new season is in full swing and I'm in rehearsals for the ever-popular Wassail . In addition, I'm also researching a play I hope to propose as part of the theatre's 2008/2009 season. That sounds a long way off(!) but these decisions start being made in...
Fox News (Free subscription) | 09/11/2007
Tom Cruise's co-stars in 'Lions for Lambs' pass on dinner honoring him.
Living In<BR>The Bonus Round (Free subscription) | 07/10/2007
We finished our run last night to a sold-out house which was filled with laughter and applause, two of the most beautiful sounds in the world. There were several moments where we just had to stop and wait, wait, wait for the laughter to die down so that we could get on with the show. It was most beautiful, to say the least. But it also marked the end of a long five years that we've been doing The Big...
JSOnline (Free subscription) | 26/09/2007
The Skylight has had to postpone "Nine: The Musical," originally set to run May 23-June 15 at the Broadway Theatre Center.
Living In<BR>The Bonus Round (Free subscription) | 24/09/2007
Announcing the good news! The Big Voice: God or Merman? has now been officially licensed and published by Samuel French. You can order your own copy of the script directly from them by going to this page . And if you're a producer and you want to produce The Big Voice in your theater, you can license the play, find a couple of middle aged prima donnas who've been wanting to play romantic leads, and...
Hearts & Minds (Free subscription) | 04/09/2007
Went to The Drum Theatre last night where Script , the West Midlands agency for dramatic writers, were conducting a seminar about how they can help people with their creative writing. Sadly, The Very Big Telly Wouldn't Fit in my Bag Predominantly, the evening covered screen, and to that end we watched three short, very well-produced films - including the award-winning "Cathy and I" - which had been...
The Sharp Side (Free subscription) | 31/08/2007
A large part of the action in John Osborne’s The Entertainer consists of the cast sitting around drinking and reminiscing. And as an actor himself, Osborne plainly believed that the cast should not be fobbed off with watery substitutes for the real thing. My Samuel French acting edition of includes a property list. Among the categories listed is DRINKS NEEDED FOR EACH PERFORMANCE . These are: Three...
FURIOUS nads! (Free subscription) | 29/08/2007
Something like two decades ago, I obsessively was reading the plays of prolific playwright Don Nigro (recently mentioned here), including ordering from Samuel French manuscripts of plays they hadn't yet published. I've only managed (and, again, something like twenty years ago) to see one production, of a play called The Curate Shakespeare's As You Like It. Specifically, a production in Vermont which...
