#greg bodine

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The world's greatest detective...is dead.  

Please join us August 8th, 9th or 10th at 8PM for a staged reading of Greg Oliver Bodine's new play, A REQUIEM FOR SHERLOCK HOLMES, on the Main Stage of the WorkShop Theater, 312 West 36th Street, 4th floor.  

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Closing Night Sold Out; Sherlock Holmes Tomorrow

Closing night of LIGHTNING FROM HEAVEN is tonight.  I'm right back at the WorkShop tomorrow evening as Dr. Watson in a reading of A REQUIEM FOR SHERLOCK HOLMES:

This new, full-length play pits Sherlock Holmes against his greatest opponent -- the criminal mastermind, Professor Moriarty, in a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse that ends in a climactic death struggle between the two men above the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland. Three years later, Dr. Watson, bereft of Holmes and lacking his late friend's superior detection skills, is nonetheless recruited by Scotland Yard to assist with an investigation into the murder of a young, London aristocrat -- the Honorable Ronald Adair, who has been discovered fatally shot in the locked bedroom of his 427 Park Lane address. With no apparent motive for the killing and lingering questions about the murder weapon, Watson and the police are left baffled by the 'Park Lane Mystery,' until, just outside the crime scene, the good doctor bumps into a wizened, old book collector, who follows him home and unexpectedly sheds some valuable light on the case...not before, however, shedding his disguise!

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I shall be appearing as Dr. Watson in Greg Oliver Bodine’s A REQUIEM FOR SHERLOCK HOLMES in a the first reading of this new full-length play on Sunday, March 10th at 6PM at the WorkShop Theater.  Our director is Kathleen Brant, and I’m thrilled to say the cast includes:  Paul Singleton, Annalisa Loeffler, Greg Oliver Bodine, Joseph Franchini, Mike Smith Rivera, Meredith Riley Stewart, Mick Bleyer, Bruce Barton, Kevin Stanfa, Ryan Lee, Walter Brandes and Christine Verleny.

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The Show Must Something Something

I have a cold.  Sore throat, stuffy nose, hacking cough.  

But I'm opening in COLD SNAPS tonight at The WorkShop.  I am spending today asleep, storing up energy for my 14 minutes of intense survival in the Yukon.  

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Coming Up...

I am opening with Richard Kent Green in Greg Bodine's TO BUILD A FIRE in WorkShop Theater's COLD SNAPS, an evening of short plays on November 30th.  Just saw the run-thru last night--it's going to be an evening of thoughtful and fun pieces.  

On December 17th I am appearing at The Players in Project Shaw's reading of SAINT JOAN, Shaw's Pulitzer-prize winning masterpiece, along with a cast of much better known and experienced actors.  I am thoroughly intimidated.  

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This Could Come In Handy...

When I play Watson opposite Paul Singleton in Greg Bodine's upcoming Sherlock Holmes play:

If there's one spy skill we all envy, it's the Sherlock Holmes-like ability to quickly read a situation and come up with a theory that explains it (like the toothpaste stain that reveals your co-worker overslept, or the nervous twitch that shows your friend drank too much). Luckily, anyone can hone these same skills, and it isn't that hard. Here's how to do it.

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My Next Show: Something To Warm Yourself By in December

Happy and pleased and proud to announce my next show:  a short play by Greg Bodine, based on the Jack London story TO BUILD A FIRE.  It will be part of this year's COLD SNAPS, the annual December evening of one-acts at the WorkShop Theater.  

Very excited to be working with Richard Kent Green for the first time in this two-person piece.  And if you saw me in I, CARPENTER at Manhattan Theatresource, you know Greg's a great writer.  We're being directed by Thomas Coté, who did a smashing job directing me and Anne Fizzard in THE TRUTH-TELLERS, the first act finale of last year's COLD SNAPS.  

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Greg Bodine has asked Paul Singleton and I to play Sherlock Homes and Watson, respectively, to his Moriarty. I know some more modern Sherlocks have caught everybody’s fancy, but for me it will always be Basil Rathbone. I know, it was an era of a somewhat more mannered style, but his passion burned through. I would loved to have seen him on the stage.