David Blixt

The Shanghai Low Coloring Contest has been extended through October 14th! I know. You're beside yourself with joy. But listen: the truth is, I hate to put the arm on anyone and would not, truly, ask you to enter the contest (or just make a contribution to the company) were the cause not just...

Hello. Emerging deep from the bowels of Rome, I surface long enough to direct you to the SHANGHAI LOW THEATRICALS website, and our first annual Coloring Contest. Really, it's a fund-raiser, but a fun one - a fun-raiser, if you will. (If you won't, I completely understand...

Yes, the third installment of the serial novel is up at the SHANGHAI LOW website! Things are rolling right along for Will and Kit, as we learn more about Kit's past and present troubles. Enjoy!

Rather than talk about the show (there are reviews all over the place), here are a few images from KING LEAR at the Shakespeare theatre. The Stocking of Kent. I'm kneeling, holding the irascible Project Manager of Shanghai Low Theatricals, Mr. Steve Pickering...

Today should have been a writing day. Had it all planned. But then my fellow castmates decided on a poker night. 12 hours, two separate games, one a winner-take-all tournament, the other a friendly night game with people coming and going...

Ah, how time flies. We're a week out from closing the show (for now), bringing an end to my DC soujourn. But what a couple of months. Since last I wrote, I've met Jane Seymour, James Keach, James Cromwell, and Linda Carter...

The second chapter of HER MAJESTY'S WILL is up and posted at the Shanghai Low Theatricals site...

...and LEAR is open! The reviews are fantastic, in that even when they hate it, they HATE it. There is no middle ground in this production. It's balls-out, literally. No one can walk away without strong feelings. The Washington Post loved it, the Washington Times hated it. Fun fun fun...

I arrived in the nation's capitol a week ago today, which is to say Monday the 18th. It has already been a great ride, and I have the rest of the summer ahead of me. As a reminder, I'm in D.C. to work on the remount of Bob Falls' KING LEAR starring Stacy Keach at the Shakespeare Theatre here...

Except here, I guess. The last six months have been a testament to devoted work. The Roman novel is not yet finished, but it's going to be massive anyway, and I'm in the home stretch. Meanwhile, with my partners at Shanghai Low, I've worked to complete three play scripts, plus two more on the way...

Next week, over at the Shanghai Low blog THE PENNY DREADFUL, we begin serializing HER MAJESTY'S WILL. It's an experiment on my part, as I close in on the end of the Roman novel and work on a silly pirate thing, to see if I can write a serial novel a la Dickens or Doyle....

For a year, Jan and I have been working on a proposal for a very cool book. Just yesterday I mentioned it in my post about the serial novel. Because of its ties to another entity, we needed a lot of permissions to go ahead with it...