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.

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.

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.
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If you can already see the art change during the shows ... "never mind".

Dave

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

This week we bring you our fifth edition of Arts Salon: Boston. This week G.L. hosts Jonathan Myers and Will Stackman for a discussion of the state of new theater in Boston today. We also have a monolog read by John M. Costa and a quick rundown of the shows you can catch this week in the Boston area. Please send any comments or suggestions to G.L.Horton (at)Mindspring (dot) Com.

May your holidays be joyful.

With this, the third and final show dedicated to G.L.'s interview at OSU, we have a role reversal - the Playwright interviews the Interviewer. We also have some after-thoughts. Mixed in with this we have three short monologues.
While we appreciate the fact you are listening, we'd also love to hear from you. Comments? Suggestions? Your own recordings of G.L.'s monologues? Stories about your use of her monologues in class or for auditions? Send them all to G.L.Horton@MindSpring.Com - we'll both be glad you did.

Theater folk feel the love when people gush over them a bit, when the audience applauds or when folks they respect invite them to appear with them in public - a talk show, a political rally or a classroom at a respected university. G.L. spent part of the week visiting OSU after one such invitation.

The reason for this invitation - Boston's Brothers in Liberty - will be added to her web site in the near future ... Stay Tuned.

Yesterday our discussion, over a spicy holiday herbal tea for some and a smooth single-malt for others, came around to the "identity" of Boston's "theater". Or, perhaps, its LACK of identity. Larry Stark, of the Theater Mirror, Geralyn Horton of Stage Page, and Will Stackman of - among other credits - the Puppet Showplace, presented their views.

We're still waiting for people willing to read G.L.'s monologs and send us the recordings.

Last week we had no time for monologues, this week we have three.
Jonathan Donahue, a Boston-based actor just cast as the lead in indie film "Revolution", reads a monologue from G.L.'s one-act Fantasia for String Trio. June Lewin, who spoke with us last week about the musical Martha Mitchell in Mostly Her Own Words is reading a flashback, and John M. Costa reads a monologue from the full length play Inquest.

Today we have two interpretations of the same monologue - both 'right' - and an old-fashioned discussion between three artist.
The monologues are by local actors John M. Costa and Penny Benson. If you would like to join them by adding your voice to our show, record any monologue found on www.StagePage.Info and send the MP3 to GLHorton (at) PodOmatic (dot) Com - we'll try to include it in a future show. Or you could join John at the Lyric Theater where he is appearing in 1776 through October 14th.

Today's show includes readings of two of G.L.'s monologues - one by Joe Benn, the other by local actress Valerie Sodano - and a discussion G.L. had with Larry Stark (of TheaterMirror.com fame) about Political Theater. We'd like to hear your takes on G.L.'s monologues - they can be found at www.StagePage.Info - and you can contact us at glhorton (at) PodOmatic (dot) Com. Larry would also appreciate your Quick Takes on any shows you've seen recently, send your short reviews to Larry (at) TheaterMirror (dot) Com. Thanks for listening.

This week we have two of G.L.'s monologues, the first chosen and read by Ohio actress Carol J. Shelton, titled "I Don't Support the Troops", the second read by local actress and theater student Valerie Sodano, titled "Eulogy". In between G.L. tells Larry Stark about her sojourn in Ohio.

If you would like to read G.L.'s monologues, go to www.StagePage.Info, and if you would like to record one for podcast, please email GLHorton (at) PodOmatic.com, possibly sending along your recording.

Today we have three (3!) of G.L.'s monologues - none of them read by ME - plus a guided tour of the Greater Boston Area Theater Scene by Larry Stark.
If you'd like to participate in our show, all you need do is choose a monologue from the hundreds on G.L.'s web site - www,StagePage.Info - and record it. Then e-mail the file to us at GLHorton (at) Podomatic.com and we will do our best to include it in a future show. Please include a few personal details and, perhaps, a small head shot with the reading.

I think we are finally ready for Prime Time!
Our first show - rather than the sound-bites we pod cast earlier - contains Geralyn reading a piece about rural New York, a talk by Larry Stark where he requests short reviews of theater you've seen, and my reading of a monologue about an annual performance review that didn't really happen.

You can send your reviews to Larry at larry@theatermirror.com and you can contact us via the link on the page. For the curious, the 'elephant' refers to "Horton, Here's a Who" - a play on the title of a Dr Seuss book.