I just learned that my one-act play “The Rothko” has been selected for production at the 4th Annual OC-Centric New Play Festival for Orange County Playwrights. The festival is staged at Chapman University in Orange and runs the last two weekends of August, which will include my birthday. My performance schedule in The Tavern actually may conflict with some of the stagings, but hopefully the schedule works out because it is a rare treat to see my work fully-staged.
This particular play is about a man in a museum who finds himself unable to explain why he felt irresistibly compelled to kick a hole in an abstract painting valued at $30 million. It was partially-inspired by the horrifying (for the art-minded) story of casino mogul Steve Wynn accidentally driving his elbow through a Van Gogh he had just sold to someone else, a spasm that ended up lopping about $10M off the sale price.
The audition bulletin board remains the most popular area of my website, and I’m glad I get to play that role in the O.C. Theatre scene. But I hope the theater owners in the area won’t begrudge me putting a little special emphasis on the auditions for this one when they come up in April.