Captain Spaulding on Skull Island

Hitchcock Blonde

. First off – here’s a link to National Film Preservation Foundation’s website. I’ll come back to this several times, it’s the reason for this post. Now… This is cool. In 2011, three of six reels of a 1924 film called THE WHITE SHADOW were found in New Zealand. The previously lost film was directed [...]

VISIBLE SOUL Interview

The blog VISIBLE SOUL interviewed me for my upcoming production of “Purple Hearts and Missing Femurs” in New York. You can read it here. “Purple Hearts and Missing Femurs” opens this weekend as part of EBE Ensemble’s ELEPHANTS ON PARADE. It runs May 3 to May 12.

Happy Birthday Shakespeare!

. It’s William Shakespeare’s 448th birthday! The website Blogging Shakespeare is celebrating by having bloggers around the world post their thoughts on how Shakespeare has impacted their lives. I’ve acted in a few of the bard’s plays (“Romeo and Juliet,” “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” “Two Gentlemen of Verona,” “The Tempest”) and even directed one (“The [...]

An Gorta Mor

. Happy St. Patrick’s Day!!! Here’s a short play I wrote for a theater in Ireland. They were looking for plays about things people deal with in contemporary life. I decided to write about clichés and stereotypes. It wasn’t selected for production, but here it is for all of you. — AN GORTA MOR by [...]

Squashin’ the Gourd

. I sat down to write a 2-page Thanksgiving play specifically to post on this blog. Here’s what came out. — SQUASHIN’ THE GOURD By John Weagly (Lights up. A living room. KATHERINE and BILLY sit on a couch. KATHERINE organizes a basket of gourds on the coffee table while BILLY reads a newspaper. KATHERINE [...]

A Head For Recipes

. I wanted to post something for Halloween, so I thought I’d put up this short play. I wrote it last October for a theater company that wanted seasonal plays that were “odd.” Nothing ever happened with it. I sent it in and then the company canceled the evening. I don’t quite know how good [...]

Ida Eyes

. Ida Lupino died on August 3, 1995. The Ida Lupino Facebook Page Blog is hosting SPREAD THE IDA LOVE: THE IDA LUPINO BLOG-A-THON that culminates on that sad anniversary. I’m a big fan of Ida. She was an actress, writer, producer and director and was a key element in many old films that I [...]

Favorite Woody Allen

—– What a busy month for this writer! With a new short story collection out on Kindle, A BUCKET OF BOOBS, and 15 of my plays running (1 at the Ensemble Theatre of Chattanooga, 1 at Hobo Junction in Chicago and 13 in my evening TALES OF THE TWINKLING TWILIGHT at Raven Theatre in Chicago), [...]

Orville & Wilbur Discuss Film Noir

— Between February 14 and February 21, Ferdy on Films and The Self-Styled Siren are hosting a For the Love of Film (Noir) Blogathon to benefit film preservation. This year, all proceeds are going to the Flim Noir Foundation. For one week, bloggers all over the internet are going to post blogs about different aspects [...]

New Noir part 2

The Noir City Festival has ended, but I’m going to keep getting through these movies I’ve been meaning to watch. On a side note, my short play “Valise” opened last week at the K.I.S.S.fest here in Chicago. I’m including it here because it’s about a bank heist gone wrong (sort of). It runs until the [...]