Playwright in NY

Once upon a time, if you had a play that was licensed by Samuel French or Dramatists Play Service, you would generally know about productions after the fact when you got your royalty statements. Sometimes I would learn about stagings that were within traveling distance I would have liked to have seen, but were long closed by the time I was aware that they had happened.

Courtesy of Google, this has changed.  You can have Google make regular searches for you of any new postings on the web that contain phrases you enclose in quotation marks.  I've put the titles of my plays in my Google search service.  So now I often learn about productions in the offing in my e-mail.

So it is that I learn tonight that John Cullum has been cast to star with Jack Klugman in my play The Value of Names at the George Street Playhouse this fall.  I'm delighted, of course, but I sure would have liked to have found out about this through a call from someone at the theatre.  Ah well.  The show is going to be directed by a friend, Jim
Glossman, and I expect to partake of rehearsals.  This is Klugman's third production of this play, and I'm delighted he likes it so much that he keeps returning to it.

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