Wednesday was a big day. The big day, from a certain point of view. Our first Cedars preview, the first performance of the play in front of a real audience, and a paying audience at that. ...
Today should prove interesting. We’re meeting in the afternoon this time. The plan is for Jim to go straight through the play from beginning to end, twice, ending just in time for the company...
Every day of this extended Cedars rehearsal process is different. It’s astonishing how discrete and unique each day is; I’m sure, when this period is finally over, we will all be able...
July 7 and 8 A fascinating couple of days. After our Sunday break, far from returning refreshed, everyone arrived on edge on Monday. There was considerable tension in the rehearsal room almost from the start....
I took an early-morning walk along Stockbridge’s Main St. this morning, in search of a New York Times and a light breakfast. And what should I come across but the former site of Alice’s...
#4July Not a simple day. The toilet in the tiny cottage I’m renting is broken. There’s no cell phone reception there either. And my rental car died in a supermarket parking lot this...
Another interesting thing I noticed today — it was in evidence yesterday as well, but I failed to register it consciously until today — is how encompassing Keira Naughton’s view of the stage...
2 July I’m in the Berkshires, in Massachusetts, for a production of my one-man play “Cedars.” It is being performed by that estimable actor, James Naughton. I heard his voice...
July 3 A variety of extraneous complications today. I somehow injured my foot (on my morning run? it’s possible, maybe even likely, although it didn’t start hurting for five or six hours...
The title of David Lewis’s documentary “The Pleasures of Being Out of Step/Notes on the Life of Nat Hentoff” begs a central question: Has Hentoff, 89, famed social commentator, critic, jazz writer...
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