tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41346892008-07-01T22:31:54.979-04:00Stevenoreply@blogger.comBlogger464125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4134689.post-47801578519529683792008-06-30T14:33:00.002-04:002008-06-30T14:59:35.483-04:00

I've spent a large part of the last year and a half measuring my pre-child expectations against my actual experiences of fatherhood, and obviously most of what I had imagined hasn't come even close. However, there is one thing that hasn't really changed at all. Before I had a child, I hoped sincerely that I wouldn't become one of those simpering whiners who felt the world had to clear a path for

seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01987734997961917202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4134689.post-23934768322785266462008-06-23T13:42:00.002-04:002008-06-24T16:10:50.316-04:00

For most of my life, I reaped the benefits of being the new kid. It's a bizarre way of to grow up, getting to re-invent yourself every year or two and never really being held accountable for your past. It might be one of the things that led me to be so comfortable as an actor and so good at creating a character. I'm not saying I was dishonest as a kid, because dishonesty is much harder to do

seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01987734997961917202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4134689.post-2176373309509179272008-06-21T14:50:00.002-04:002008-06-22T14:34:47.486-04:00

I know I'm not gonna get much feedback on this, and I'm hoping that I can just write out some of my thoughts here and then re-visit this once this blog has reasserted itself into the public conversation. I don't blame those who aren't reading this, I don't write about theater enough for theater people to check it, and I don't write enough PERIOD for anyone to check it. Which, I guess, is my way

seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01987734997961917202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4134689.post-16252901925800223792008-06-15T13:48:00.004-04:002008-06-15T15:04:42.036-04:00

In light of this total invention of a holiday, let me do what I can to update the Barnaby. At this point, the most difficult thing I have to deal with is the nagging sense that I didn't really buy into fatherhood until quite late. There were months and months when I looked at Barnaby as the project I had to deal with In spite of the fact that I had no time to deal with him, and it took me a long

seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01987734997961917202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4134689.post-32721615259244138162008-06-11T13:26:00.002-04:002008-06-11T13:37:11.991-04:00

((Spoilers Throughout)) (I mean, I can't do this without spoilers, and plus none of you are gonna see this show, right? It's like, probably sixth on everyone's list, or... If it's even *third* on your list, do you know how much *MONEY* you need to get all the way to your third choice? What do you care if I spoil the show, right?) I covered some of this earlier, but I want to have a full review,

seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01987734997961917202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4134689.post-39153703658663349372008-06-06T10:30:00.002-04:002008-06-06T11:13:33.757-04:00

I'm gonna just jump right in on this. I'm still working out my blogging style for the new (in my mind) blog, with as little intro as possible, mostly because ALL of my time is borrowed time. There is, as always, a lot more to this idea than I'm gonna explain, but basically Brecht wanted to stop our absorption with the story at key moments, take us out of the play, in order for us to pay

seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01987734997961917202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4134689.post-77981946566916739262008-06-04T14:53:00.002-04:002008-06-04T15:44:10.037-04:00

So, this is gonna get some of the theater ideas off my chest that I've been mulling lately. As usual, I'm gonna start with a disclaimer. In the world of theater, there are ideas and labels thrown around all the time that tend to be used in a variety of terrible ways, and every approach to theater or acting always brings to my mind the artistic equivalent of "guns don't kill people, people kill

seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01987734997961917202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4134689.post-41893045248579498942008-06-03T13:11:00.002-04:002008-06-03T13:33:26.677-04:00

It's strange to think that my brother's blog about my rejection from a stay-at-home mom's group would be the very thing that would kick start me back in to blogging, but it has, in a way. I say that, even though I don't really intend to write about that particularly weird chain of events. But it did get me thinking about why I haven't written, and then, of course, why I should. If you're reading

seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01987734997961917202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4134689.post-64537915649039657132008-04-08T11:35:00.001-04:002008-04-08T11:36:28.431-04:00

Here are two videos. Barnaby walks his stroller, above, and Barno Puts Pees In A Bowl, one of my all-time favorites.

seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01987734997961917202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4134689.post-22936736709009990652008-04-08T11:32:00.000-04:002008-04-08T11:33:24.035-04:00

More later, I promise.

seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01987734997961917202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4134689.post-64075411894643214282007-12-28T23:38:00.001-05:002007-12-28T23:38:54.548-05:00

seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01987734997961917202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4134689.post-92015942730234315442007-12-19T16:55:00.001-05:002007-12-19T16:55:50.301-05:00

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A little story. There was a city on the edge of a desert, and in this city there were seven boys who grew up together. They were friends, more like brothers, defending each other from older kids and fighting with each other when there was nobody else to fight. They were boys together and, after a time, they discovered they were becoming men together. They had to choose careers, and, wanting to

seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01987734997961917202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4134689.post-15245079445670038462007-11-15T15:39:00.000-05:002007-11-16T00:13:42.687-05:00

In no way is this related to Ian's wife Tessa writing his blog. I think Jordana has a far better understanding of the boo and hasn't written much down about him since we started this little adventure, so she asked if she could write his eleven month blog. From her... *** In the early months it's difficult to distinguish personality from developmental stage. Most of what your kid does and even

seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01987734997961917202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4134689.post-11111463087783200182007-10-19T16:05:00.001-04:002007-10-19T16:42:05.655-04:00

Today was his first ride on a subway, and first stroll down Madison Avenue. Now I don't know if he just caught on to how much I love the city, or if he has the same absurd sense of liberation that I have, but he was wandering down the upper east side kicking his stroller and clapping his hands. We met his mom who took lil' Barno to her office, where he charmed the pants off people that Jordana

seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01987734997961917202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4134689.post-55288972058820374282007-10-15T12:10:00.000-04:002007-10-15T16:46:16.658-04:00

It's interesting, you can tell how old Barnaby is by what month it is. It won't always be this way, in fact he'll end up with the same problem my mom has where you have to figure out how old she is by counting from the year *after* she was born, but for now it's convenient. How much better is everything? It's indescribable. I feel like I should have some capacity for describing the joy in having

seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01987734997961917202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4134689.post-82971640028409298212007-10-09T14:54:00.000-04:002007-10-09T15:39:37.114-04:00

I have had a wonderful outpouring since my last blog, and I feel like I ought to say something about where we are now. While it is true that Barnaby has turned a corner, I'm not sure that is the whole reason that things have gotten so much better. It might be a bit of a story, but I'm gonna just tell it in the hopes that I'll be forgiven for the self-indulgence, both in terms of the last blog and

seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01987734997961917202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4134689.post-47498676589330773772007-09-26T11:43:00.000-04:002007-09-26T12:52:56.161-04:00

Do you want to know why I haven't written? Two months of Barnaby entries, the 8th month and the 9th month, both skipped. There probably isn't even a readership anymore, but let me see if I can explain, should anyone stumble on to this blog. I need to start by saying, if you think I just need to suck it up and that there are starving and homeless people right here in New York, I'm gonna have to

seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01987734997961917202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4134689.post-85248653022055713292007-08-21T23:39:00.000-04:002007-08-22T00:13:48.853-04:00

We had a really good crowd for Hail Satan tonight. By "tonight", I mean, this afternoon, of course, since we have an incredibly difficult schedule within the festival. We have five shows, and four of them are before 5 or after 10, which doesn't really feel like a vote of confidence from the folks who run the festival, but we've managed to actually sell pretty well so far. Last I heard we had

seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01987734997961917202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4134689.post-16960829959504191562007-08-13T15:53:00.000-04:002007-08-13T16:06:26.943-04:00

I got some private emails, and I'm gonna do my damnedest to come. It's a tough sell, in this climate, particularly with everyone talking about how the Fringe sucks... Look, it's possible that the Fringe Festival in another town would bring the whole city to its collective knees, but New York isn't like that. It just isn't, we've been through too much. I can tell you that on by September 14, 2001

seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01987734997961917202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4134689.post-55605875249576473232007-08-06T15:34:00.000-04:002007-08-06T15:35:08.755-04:00

There was a pervasive sense that the first trailer had some problems. It wasn't "good", if I remember correctly. It "sucked" according to my sources. So, I did another edit. I think this one's pretty fun.

seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01987734997961917202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4134689.post-65376616936399831792007-08-03T22:00:00.000-04:002007-08-03T22:48:32.016-04:00

The play we're producing right now is largely a discussion of tolerance. At one point, one character says to another "If someone said that their religion tells them they don't have to stop at red lights, would you just tolerate that?" and the answer, of course, is no. In fact, the answer there is so obvious that it isn't even given, the question is a point in and of itself. Now, earlier tonight,

seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01987734997961917202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4134689.post-4220975224763012742007-08-01T16:12:00.001-04:002007-08-01T16:13:20.977-04:00

We are restricted by the union and by our own empty pockets from shooting a feature length film based on Hail Satan, but we can do this...

seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01987734997961917202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4134689.post-61130206734357692802007-08-01T10:48:00.000-04:002007-08-01T13:37:39.671-04:00

Here's the second half of what I think might be good at the festival this year. If you aren't on here, write to me and tell me why you should be, and if you are on here, you better let me know to come to your show. I've got brothers and aunts and relations showing up for Hail Satan and they want to see theater while they're here. Yesterday has the first part of the alphabet, today is the last

seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01987734997961917202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4134689.post-22101760557689260572007-07-31T13:01:00.000-04:002007-07-31T14:07:11.555-04:00

I am acting in a show in this year's New York International Fringe Festival and I've got some time between opening and the second show. What show? Oh, sorry, of course, I'm in Hail Satan, being produced by some very attractive people over at Gideon Productions, with whom I'm tangentially connected. My family's coming and they're gonna want to see some more New York Theater while they're in town

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