PRESS RELEASE: LOS ANGELES– Playwright D.W. Gregory, author of Radium Girls and Memoirs of a Forgotten Man, has been included in a video wiki “Seven Talented Contemporary Playwrights,” by Ezvid Wiki. The seven featured writers are: Jacqueline E. Lawton, Jen Silverman, Gwydion Suilebhan, D.W. Gregory, Matthew Paul Olmos, Madhuri Shekar, and Anne Garcia-Romero. Gregory is […]
For the second year in a row, Radium Girls, by D.W. Gregory, has been named one of the ten most-produced plays in U.S. high schools, edging up to the No. 8 slot from No. 10 in the 2017-18 school year. The Educational Theatre Association issued the results of its annual survey of 3,000 high schools […]
One of the ideas I had for starting this blog was having a place to provide updates about my work. As it often happens there’s a long lull of not much to report followed by a burst of new developments. Burst number one — the long-awaited one-act version of Radium Girls is now […]
Some amazing news came to me through Google Alerts a little while ago. I’d set up a weekly tracker to follow productions of a few published scripts. Most of the time it highlights calendar listings and occasional features about productions I was already aware of, but it’s a nice way to catalogue press coverage. […]
Sometimes you hear The Call and are compelled to your destiny. And sometimes you hear The Call and hang up on it —because the message sounds garbled and the Voice of Destiny bears a strange resemblance to Phyllis Diller the morning after she went through all the cheap champagne alone. That’s pretty much […]
Let’s just get this straight from the top: I have nothing against Steven Barker. From everything I’ve seen he is a perfectly nice person, teaching drama to kids at Camp Lejeune and generally staying out of trouble. Except that he caused me untold misery over the past 10 days by suggesting that if I wrote […]
The Burlington Players of Burlington, Mass., took a trip to the State House in Boston July 26 as guests of the Massachusetts Legislature. The occasion: The community theatre troupe had walked off with the highest prize in its field a month before—Best Show Award at the 2013 American Association for Community Theatre (AACT) annual festival […]
In the annals of theatrical chutzpah, this latest missive has to rank fairly high. A theatre that shall remain nameless booked several performances of Radium Girls for the coming fall. Okay, cool. I’m excited, because this one looks to be a professional company, even though it’s only a single weekend run. Then comes this […]
“The strength of Gregory’s characterization of Judy is that she does not allow disability to become an all-encompassing character trait that merely paints Judy as either bitter or heroic. … In short, by using disability as a dramaturgical device rather than a metaphor, a stereotype, or an all-encompassing world-view, Gregory has made the play and […]
Trolling through Google with coffee in hand is a favored Saturday morning time-waster, but this morning I came across a stunning discovery — Google images, more than 100, of various productions of Radium Girls. To wit: This visually arresting production, directed by Elaine Vaan Hogue at Boston University, was one I had the privilege to […]
Tempting as it is to believe my labors are all for naught, I am occasionally confronted with a different reality. This time it is a note card from the exhausted but grateful and excited cast and crew of RADIUM GIRLS at The Shea Theater in Turners Falls, Massachusetts. Director Robert Freedman kindly forwarded a review […]
