re: #244 Walter L. Newton

Repeat of a shameless self promotion alert. Non-partisan tooting of own horn.

I was perusing the Denver Post online yesterday, and found out I had missed an article that was dated 02-14-2010.

It seems the post took a national poll looking for the 10 best Americans Plays. They had 294 titles submitted from various judges in the industry including… NPR commentator Frank Deford, Tony-winning Broadway actor Dana Ivey (“The Last Night of Ballyhoo”), playwrights Doug Wright (“I Am My Own Wife”), Jason Grote (“1001”), Steven Dietz (“God’s Country”), Octavio Solis (“Lydia”), Joan Holden (“Nickel and Dimed”) and Ted Lange (“Soul Survivor”), as well as the artistic directors of the Goodman Theatre (Robert Falls) and Portland Center Stage (Chris Coleman), and staff from theaters across the country, including Actors Theatre of Louisville, host of the prestigious Humana Festival of New American Plays.

My play ” I Never Promised You a Rose Garden” was listed at 263. Shocked the shit out of me to even see it on the list.

And here’s a funny aside. When I saw the article, I downloaded a PDF of the list that the Denver Post had available on their website.

I’m showing the list to my girlfriend and I pointed out to her that “I Never Promised You A Rose Garden” was one listing above “The Iceman Cometh” and I was elated to see my play against such an American classic as “Iceman.”

My girlfriend made a little “hruumph” and pointed out to me the list was alphabetical, not according to rank.

Silly me.

[Link: www.denverpost.com…]

Congrats Walter. I hope that gets some of your work some stage time. You deserve that.