Ginger's Working Overtime

Mill 6 friend and T Play writer Ginger Lazarus has several new projects underway. A new website gingerlazarus.com is currently under construction. I was able to get a sneak peek at it, and it looks really great. Many photos from Ginger's shows. Plus information on her short plays and full length pieces. And Ginger has a new show opening this spring. It's called A Blessing and a Curse: A Duet of Plays on Motherhood, and it's at the Boston Playwright's Theatre. www.bostonplaywrights.com March 6-15

So check out what's new with Ginger over at her site, and check out her shows in March.

So what did I miss?

So I took a short nap after the T Plays closed and I wake up and find out it's 2009?! Well, that was quite a nap. Now refreshed I can tell you that our next production will be Bunbury: A Serious Play for Trivial People written by Tom Jacobson. Yes, this was the show we were going to produce last fall, but due to some crazy scheduling we had to put it off until now. Or rather until May. May 1-17 to be exact. It will play at the Factory Theater. I will post exact dates and times in the next few weeks. I can say it will be co-directed by Artistic Director John Edward O'Brien and IRNE nominee Barlow Adamson. Mikkel Raahede (shown in photo) last seen as the Artist in Match will play Bunbury. We will be posting here and elsewhere when our audition dates and times are set. Our website will soon be updated with more photos from The T Plays, so be on the lookout for these changes. Mill 6 is also working with some other small theater companies in Boston to help promote - what else - small theater in Boston. So, it looks like that long nap was needed because it should be a busy and fun winter and spring. Stay tuned.....

And the envelope please....

And the 2008 T Plays Audience Favorite goes to....

PLEASE REPORT ANY SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY

Blue Line Week 1

Written by Rick Park

Directed by Meg Taintor

with Tony Dangerfield as Drik; Rafael Marinho as Antonio and George Saulnier as Reading Man

Congrats to the winners and to all the artists who made the past three weeks a big success.

T Plays Are Almost Sold Out!

Saturday night's performance that is, there are tickets left for tonight - we'd hate to turn anyone away, so if you can make it to tonight's (Friday) performance we'd love to see you!

Audience Favorites

So the ballots have been counted and recounted. And here are the audience favorites for the T Plays.

Please Report Any Suspicious Activity by Rick Park

Permissive Signals by William Donnelly

La Vie Orange by Ginger Lazarus

A Single Look Back by John Edward O'Brien

The Quiet Desperation of White People by Ken Urban

I Could Not Stop the Silver Line so It Kindly Stopped for Me by Kristin Baker and Dan Milstein

Yes, we said there would be five. There was a tie, so all six will move on. Performances will be Oct 2-4 all at 8PM.

Scenes from Week Two

As noted below week one had gay dolphins...what does week two offer? Here's a sneak peek of some of the shows this week. And again thanks to Meg Taintor for the photos.

Pictured are Faith Imafidon and Giselle Ty in 6AM: Violin/Viola written by Matt Chapuran and directed by Barlow Adamson. And Forrest Walter and Bonnie Duncan in The Quiet Desperation of White People written by Ken Urban and directed by Antoine A. Gagnon. Hope to see you this week.

Early Results are in...

and as the late Tim Russert demonstrated we live in a blue state. Last week's Blue Line Play - Please Report Any Suspicious Activity was hands down the audience favorite. It received almost twice as many votes as the other plays. And looking ahead to this current week it would be mathematically impossible for five plays to do better than it. And so it is safe to declare (even though the polls for this week have yet to open) that Please Report... - the play about two gay dolphins having a fight on the blue line (or if you ask George the play about a man whose reading is interrupted by two gay dolphins) will be a part of the audience favorite week Oct 2-4. Congrats to writer Rick Park, director Meg Taintor and actors Tony Dangerfield, Rafael Marinho and George Saulnier. The other four plays from last week are still in contention and we will wait until voting for this week has concluded on Sunday before posting the full breakdown.