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Me & Others is the story of my whole life from birth in Kansas City to vigorous old age in rural Oregon, with eventful interludes in New York City, eastern Connecticut, Taos, and Santa Barbara. I have had great joy and exasperation in getting to know myself and others. I have loved and lost and loved again. I have brought children into the world. I have had ineffable satisfactions in putting on plays, writing and publishing books, and playing ...

Doreen picks Charles out of a litter of kittens at a Brooklyn Museum art class and carries him home through a snowstorm as a gift for her boyfriend David. "I'm not sure I want a kitten, " he says, but how can he resist? As it turns out David is to be Charles's person-for-life. Many surprising and dramatic moves follow, back and forth across the U.S.A., as David pursues his calling and his happiness and raises a family, with Charles as an intim...

Memoir of a life in theatre by Michael Smith, playwright, critic, producer, lighting designer, a key player in the Off-Off-Broadway theatre movement of the 1960s and beyond.

MICHAEL TOWNSEND SMITH has released a truly pocket-size little pink book entitled "How to Be Funny." It consists of 1600 or so exclamations, insights, and observations - or one might say "wisdom and wisecracks" - sentences about the titular theme, ranging from one to ninety-four words, arranged in little sequences like poems . . . You may feel an urge to dispute one of Mister Smith's assertions or arguments, only to find soon after that he lig...

MICHAEL SMITH won a Brandeis University Creative Arts Citation for criticism, a Rockefeller Foundation Award for playwriting, an Obie Award for directing, and two Indie Awards for stage lighting. As theatre critic for the Village Voice in the 1960s, he was instrumental in the growth of Off-Off-Broadway. This first of two volumes of his plays contains "More! More! I Want More!" (1965), "The Next Thing" (1966), "A Dog's Love" (1966), "Captain Ja...

John P. Dodd, the light man at the legendary Caffè Cino in Greenwich Village in the early sixties, assisted at the birth of Off-Off-Broadway and collaborated with key figures in New York's downtown world of theatre and dance. This book, illustrated with rare period photographs, recounts Dodd's colorful life and career from the unique perspective of playwright and director Michael Smith, drama critic of The Village Voice and his intimate compan...

As theatre critic for the Village Voice in the 1960s, and as a director and playwright, Michael Smith was a key player in the Off-Off-Broadway movement in New York. Since 1990 he has been active on the West Coast as a playwright, director, lighting designer, and producer. This volume contains eleven of his dramatically varied plays, dating from 1974 to 2010: "The Dinner Show, " "Heavy Pockets, " "Turnip Family Secrets, " "Half Life, " "Trouble...

From the author of "Near the End" comes another rich text in which dream and reality overlap to generate hauntingly suggestive images and states of mind. Shot through with intimations of heartbreak, parting, and the dissolution of sophisticated structures, the action ranges from California to Central Europe as the narrator drifts through spring at an isolated English country house.

Writing theatre criticism for The Village Voice from 1957 to 1974, Michael Smith lucked into an extraordinarily dynamic period in American theatre. Broadway-style commercialism was stifling innovation in the early sixties. In response, a new alternative theatre emerged in lofts, storefronts, churches, and coffeehouses radiating out from Greenwich Village. This generous selection of reviews from Smith's "theatre journal" columns in The Voice gi...

These mostly poem-like artifacts were published as they were written at http://michaeltownsendsmith.blogspot.com. A log of course is a record of a journey-in a ship's log, location, weather, and daily events. The macrotext of this weblog tracks seasons, moods, happenings, and the national temper, but its real concern is less with external circumstances and more with inner action. The writer's minimalist, allusive diction skips the mechanics of...