As the summer begins and the parade of noisy, mindless, non-stop roller coaster rides of movies invade our theaters, it seems appropriate to talk about two roller coaster rides for actual human beings like you and I. The two movies are sometimes about human beings doing outrageous things, but the acts are human scale, relatable-to, engaging, […]
It’s about thirty minutes long and I answer questions from listeners of the Doug Foresta Radio Show. http://www.blogtalkradio.com/dougforestashow/2013/05/03/screenwriting-secrets-with-tom-lazarus
Written and Directed by Tom Lazarus “A fun and touching evening.” “Great show!” “You put out something with guts and heart, and we left the theatre lighter than we were when we came in.” “A major, major achievement.” “The show was fantastic! The writing was superb, Stevie was amazing and the music was […]
By Tom Lazarus Author of THE LAST WORD, DEFINITIVE ANSWERS TO ALL YOUR SCREENWRITING QUESTIONS The last few weeks, after months of preparation, I directed three theater pieces. It was terrific fun and an incredible learning experience. I learned that orienting the audience to what I, the writer, expect from them is vital […]
At Ensemble Studio Theater Written and Directed by Tom Lazarus “An amazing piece of drama! Shockingly beautiful.” – Alexa “I thought the acting was amazing. You must be a terrific director because without sets, costumes, props, or even actually physically doing what was going on in the play, it was easily visualized. It also […]
For Immediate Release Sunday, February 3, at 1:00 P.M. will be the world premiere of a staged reading of DO UNTO OTHERS at the Atwater Village Theater. Written and directed by Tom Lazarus, DO UNTO OTHERS, a very dark family drama with black comedy underpinnings, stars Dawn Alden, Sharon Freedman, Eve Sigall, Charles […]
One Performance Only! A staged reading of DO UNTO OTHERS Written and Directed by Tom Lazarus Sunday, February 3, 2013 1:00 PM Atwater Village Theatre 3269 Casitas Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90039 Presented as part of Winterfest 2013 at Ensemble Studio Theatre L.A. Donation requested at the door ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
One of the common blunders inexperienced screenwriters make is they show their work before it’s ready. Too many screenwriters send out their scripts ‘before the ink has a chance to dry’ as we used to say. (Ink, by the way, was the colored liquid used in a writing instrument called a fountain pen) Just because […]
One of the issues I have with many screenplays I read is the lack of visual logic in scene description. On some level, we see the movie in our minds when we read it, and when the scene description is illogical or impossible or awkward, it is registered and is one of the things that […]
In each of the examples cited below, the professional reader records these as mistakes and pulls the reader out of the script. It’s the last thing you want. WE SEE, WE HEAR, WE FOLLOW, WE ANYTHING…all redundant. It’s a given that anything on the page is heard and seen. It’s the definition of REDUNDANT. […]
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