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‘Eye Contact’ The Greek hero Perseus seeks to kill the Gorgon Medusa but his plan quickly falls apart. This retelling of the Greek myth upends conventional assumptions about Medusa as well as what it takes to be a hero. 'Eye Contact' won the 2020 Phillips' Mill Emerging Playwriting Award. It's a…

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In three days this insane piece of theater, dreamed up by 4 incredibly talented actors and me, makes its debut. I had a blast creating 'Made-Up Stories About My Ancestors' with this incredible team. Get tickets here: www.ticketleap.events/tickets/rtpt...

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‘Hero Work’ Full-Length Play Josh Watkins wants to save the world — either as superhero The Good Prowler or as a reporter. But when a tragedy strikes the city the Good Prowler serves, he must find the best way to save whom he can. NPX members can read the play at my New Play Exchange page.

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‘You Don’t Own My Soul Anymore’ "You Don't Own My Soul Anymore" is a play for two women and a third character. It explores what happens when the source of your childhood trauma is literally the last person you spend eternity with. Do you help to save them? Or do you take the opportunity to finally…

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Posting information about my plays to my website, adam-richter.com. 'The Conscience of the King' is a prequel to 'Hamlet' and looks at Claudius with a bit more sympathy #Theater #Playwriting

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‘Banshee’ Full-length play High above the River Bandon in Kinsale,County Cork, Ireland, Nancy Donough hears the cry of the banshee. But she’s not the only one to hear it — nor is she the only one to be haunted by the plaintive wail that reaches across generations. “Banshee” is a story about…

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Thanks to the @readingeagle.bsky.social for spotlighting the Reading Theater Project's 5-Minute Fringe Festival, featuring original performance works by local artists. (NOTE: The picture in the preview is not of the festival, but a different event.) www.readingeagle.com/2025/02/16/r...

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My new play, co-written with four amazing improv actors, premieres at the Reading Theater Project's 5-Minute Fringe Festival from Feb. 27-March 2. Come check out "Made-Up Stories About My Ancestors" along with about a dozen other new and brilliant works! rtp.ticketleap.com

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"Catcher In the Rye" but also "Discourse on Method and the Meditations" by René Descartes, which made me want to become a philosopher.

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My kid keeps referring to Nirvana as "Courtney Love's husband's band" and,NGL, I kinda like it.

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I know that '90s Pearl Jam is the band's biggest era but I love love love the trio of albums that came out from 2000-2006: Binaural, Riot Act and (nickname) Avocado.

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Last editorial from Newark Star-Ledger: "All good journalists are activists for truth, and they consider it their job to pressure powerful people and institutions. Journalism that stands for nothing compromises its relevance." www.nj.com/opinion/2025...

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This article is a great elegy to the first daily newspaper where I landed after three years of toiling at a neighborhood weekly. I was lucky enough to have my tenure at the Express-Times overlap with Steve Novak, the author of this piece. www.lehighvalleylive.com/ourstories/2...

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Happy St. Brigid's Day, you old Building & Loan!

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Welp. Guess I need to back to to the isle.

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Because they are evil, we must stand up to them. But because they are also stupid, we needn’t be afraid to.

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The world has been without Pete Seeger for 11 years, and boy does it show.

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Holocaust survivor: ‘I saw normal people in Auschwitz and I saw sadists there who killed people’

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Watching "The Wizard of Oz" and I can't keep the LOTR references away. Nor would I want to.

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I gave up Goodreads this year but I am on @thestorygraph.com if anyone cares to connect there. My username is richterific.

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So glad I got to see him play in person early in his U.S. career (which really was the midpoint.) Ichiro and Ken Griffey Jr. are my two favorite players of all time.

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I don't have the mental space to cope with national politics, so on the rare occasions I post here it'll probably be about whatever books I'm reading, plays I like or random bits of Irish history. For example: Reading The Silmarillion and I dig Tolkien's creation myth that music formed the world.

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I'm currently reading "Ulysses" and "Under the Dome" as well as about 6 other library books. But I got an illustrated edition of "Lord of the Rings" for Christmas so ... I'll be in the Shire if anyone needs me.

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I recently realized that a not-insignificant portion of the #LordOfTheRings and #Hobbit movies is characters complaining that other characters never showed up for them. The lesson? Support your friends. You don't want to start a grudge that lasts multiple ages of men.

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Claire Keegan

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Happy New Year, interwebs.

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Looking back on 2024, I don't have a ton to crow about, writing-wise, but I am proud of a few accomplishments: 1) I performed onstage for the first time in almost 25 years, and I didn't die. 2) I rewrote 1 full-length play, and expanded a one-act to full length. #Onward to 2025.

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Roger Casement assured his defence counsel at his trial that the so-called ‘black diaries’ were a forgery. Casement’s trial for high treason at the Old Bailey became one of the most famous trials in British legal history and attracted worldwide attention. www.irishtimes.com/history/2024...

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Fred Scrooge sums it up: Christmas is a "a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time," when people think of others "as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys." Merry Christmas, or Happy Wednesday. May it be one of joy.

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This is spot-on. As a devoted reader of "A Christmas Carol" myself, I found sufficient reason for an atheist like me to celebrate the holiday in Fred's speech, but @radiofreetom.bsky.social is 100% right about Jacob.

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Time for a thread of some shameless self-promotion. If you are in the holiday spirit and want to read some festive-ish plays, I have a quartet of Christmas-themed stories for your enjoyment. If you are a theater company looking for fun holiday shorts, read on: 1/5

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Frodo is the reason for the season. #LOTR #ChristmasCarol #LordOfTheRings #Scrooge

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Heard on a podcast this morning: "I am a tiny grain of sand in this vast, beautiful universe. But let me be a good grain of sand."

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