Rudy Wurlitzer.

  I've had the rare pleasure of knowing  Brendan Greenberg ever since his birth some eight years ago, but it was only when I presented him with Alphonso, a large stuffed bullfrog that I had come across years ago in a small back-water shop in Nicaragua, that we began to truly transcend a generational gap of some sixty years. Our mutual and somewhat obsessive … [Read more...] about Rudy Wurlitzer introduces Brendan Greenberg

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid was written relatively fast - in six or seven weeks -- and the writer was paid what was for him a huge sum of money by MGM, enough for him to buy land in Nova Scotia, over five thousand miles from Hollywood. The writer felt strangely pleased about the first draft, believing that it was lean and subtly paced with even a few autonomous moments of … [Read more...] about On Moviemaking: Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid

IN THE PENAL COLONY AN OPERA BY PHILIP GLASS LIBRETTO BY RUDOLPH WURLITZER BASED ON THE ORIGINAL STORY BY FRANZ KAFKA COMMISSIONED AND ORIGINALLY PRODUCED BY A CONTEMPORARY THEATRE IN COLLABORATION WITH COURT THEATRE DIRECTED BY JOANNE AKALAITIS PROLOGUE A Visitor newly arrived at the Penal Colony, stands at center stage. Behind him, a large photograph of … [Read more...] about IN THE PENAL COLONY: a libretto