In the Tucson Star

Where can you see exciting new plays being produced around these parts? Almost anywhere, it turns out, because Tucson’s theaters produce an extraordinary number of new works, often by local writers. This year saw The Rogue’s The Decameron by Patrick Baliani, and Ten Chimneys by Jeffrey Hatcher at Arizona Theatre Company. Beowulf Alley Theatre Company had Fronting the Order by Warren G. Bodow and Head: The Musical by Kevin Fry, in addition to their annual Page on the Stage Festival. Winding Road Theater Ensemble produced Toni Press-Coffman’s Armor, and Live Theatre Workshop’s Etcetera series presented Christopher Johnson’s The Eating Disorder Talent Show, and High Crimes, a musical by Damian Lemar Hudson. Borderlands Theater had two premieres: Kara Hartzler’s No Roosters in the Desert and Martin Zimmerman’s White Tie Ball—as well as the annual update of A Tucson Pastorella. Add to that the locally written escapades at the Gaslight Theatre, and the very first Tucson Fringe Theater Festival, and you have a theater community that truly deserves commendation.

A collection of three 10-minute one-acts, THREE SHORT PLAYS ABOUT LOVE offers an evening of pithy views of Valentines Day’s impact on a diverse set of characters. SWEETS FOR MY SWEET demonstrates how a guy’s plans for a gift for his lover are overturned by a cunning stranger, to the stranger’s benefit. MY OLD FLAME poignantly portrays a long-married couple dealing with the existence of a Valentine’s Day card signed by neither of them. In STAY TUNED a woman sits alone in her big-city apartment waiting for ‘him’ to call. When flowers arrive, we witness her unexpected reaction and an even more surprising conclusion.

Taken together, THREE SHORT PLAYS ABOUT LOVE offers a half-hour of laughter, irony, turn-about and reconciliation. The playwright conceived the trio for theatre companies wishing to determine a timely way to cultivate audiences and donors with a mid-winter evening of theatre, food and drink and have everybody home by nine o’clock.

Staging, casting and lighting requirements are simple and easily managed by theater companies large or small. All three plays have been successfully staged for paying audiences. Casting: SWEETS FOR MY SWEET, 2W, 1M; MY OLD FLAME, 1W, 1M; STAY TUNED, 1W, 1M (offstage).

To inquire about licensing these plays, write to Anne Hamilton at hamiltonlit@ hotmail.com or call 215-536-1074.

Playwright’s Bio

Warren G. Bodow is a ‘second-act’ playwright, having turned to this craft following a thirty-year career in broadcasting, most notably as president, for fifteen years, of two New York City radio stations. For three years, he was board chair of the Arts & Business Council of New York. He has written six plays, all of which have been produced in festivals or as fully-staged box-office productions. His second play, RACE MUSIC, was performed on Theatre Row and received critical acclaim from The New York Times in 2009. A native of Syracuse, New York, he graduated from Syracuse University and served as chair of the Newhouse School Advisory Board. He lives with his wife, Ellen, in New York City and in Tucson, Arizona.

Hamilton Dramaturgy Press publishes plays, poetry, and children’s literature.

They are:

ANOTHER WHITE SHIRT AND OTHER PLAYS AND POETRY by Anne Hamilton

THE STACY PLAY AND OTHER PLAYS AND POETRY by Anne Hamilton

and THREE SHORT PLAYS ABOUT LOVE by Warren Bodow

All are available in paperback and as ebooks from www.lulu.com. Descriptions and previews are available on the website.

Please buy a copy today! – Fifty percent of the proceeds from Anne Hamilton’s books will be used to fund the next segment of TheatreNow!, her podcast series featuring important contemporary female theatre artists.

She is the Founder of Hamilton Dramaturgy, an international consultancy based in New York City’s professional scene, and located in Bucks County, PA. She has twenty years of experience in the professional theatre in New York City, across the country, and internationally. The majority of her clients are located in New York and Los Angeles, and she welcomes clients from any corner of the world. Her clients have gone on to win the Pulitzer Prize, the MacArthur “Genius” Award, the Tony ® Award, and a Royal Court International Residency. STAGE DIRECTIONS magazine named her a “trailblazer” in American dramaturgy.

Hamilton has consulted with Andrei Serban, the Joseph Papp Public Theater, the Harold Prince Musical Theatre Institute, Michael Mayer, Lynn Nottage, Yehuda (Judd) Ne’eman, Classic Stage Company, B.T. McNicholl,Tina Andrews, NYSCA, Jean Cocteau Repertory Theater, Leslie Lee, Andrew Barrett, The New York City Public Library’s Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture, and the University of Iowa Playwrights Workshop.

She is the author of the HDP titles ANOTHER WHITE SHIRT AND OTHER PLAYS AND POETRY and THE STACY PLAY – A LOVE SONG AND OTHER PLAYS AND POETRY.

She also produces and hosts TheatreNow!, a podcast series featuring some of the contemporary women theatre artists.

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Anne Hamilton is the Publisher and Editor. The Founder of Hamilton Dramaturgy, she runs an international script development consultancy. The company produces ScriptForward!, an enewsletter for professional and aspiring scriptwriters, and TheatreNow! a podcast series featuring some of the most important women working in the theatre today.

The press has published anthologies of plays and poetry from 2009 and 2010, which are available as paperbacks and ebooks through www.lulu.com. The titles are:

ANOTHER WHITE SHIRT AND OTHER PLAYS AND POETRY, and THE STACY PLAY – A LOVE SONG – VOLUME I.

You may contact Anne at hamiltonlit@hotmail.com.