"Man of La Mancha" opens Friday, previews are tomorrow night and Thursday twice.

Still waiting for my script and music to start learning "Titanic."

The big news - for the first time in a good long while, I've STARTED A NEW PLAY!

I write a lot, of course, but I haven't ever done anything better than a false start or an abortive run at a bad idea for the past ... well, awfully long time.

What's it about? I have no idea. It's going somewhere though, like nothing else I've written. It's taking me along with it. So far it's about (not to "pollute my own process" or anything... don't believe in that nonsense. Bah.) two roommates, one wakes the other up in the middle of the night because he's afraid he's going to be the target of a terror attack. It goes on like that for quite a while, until a big reveal points out that he was afraid and upset by something else entirely. Or maybe not. As I said, it's taking me with it. It's nothing special, it's just good to feel like a piece is going to be completed.

Someone out there bought a copy of my play "Martin and Olive" off the site recently, you know who you are... We were discussing the play and were mid-conversation when we stopped e-mailing. Fix that!