Flash plays are very short plays, probably about three minutes on average that focus on one incident, and feel like that they are excerpts from a bigger play.

The festival of new plays has been around for awhile and it just keeps getting bette. A few years ago, Mark Damon, the advisor for the playwriting classes, heard about a new concept called 10-minute plays. Now there are 10-minute play festivals all over the country. Now we are doing flash plays, its great the way the festival is evolving.

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In baseball you have individual responsibility, and if you fail it, you get an error. But at the same time, your focus is on the common goal of the team to win. This is part of what resonates with people about baseball. This is how they would like society to work.

That's the sixth compromise offer we have made in the last seven days, and the musicians' union has made none.

I don’t see it as my role to save or rescue anybody any more than regular people feel the need to rescue each other from sleeping and dreaming.