Upcoming film release

Info on a screenplay I co-wrote with Francisco Campos-Lopez to be released in 2017.

From Francisco: Amazing engineer Jim Curtis from Omega Recording Studios is mixing the soundtrack of our movie I Did Her Wrong composed by Alberto Shwartz . And it's sounding like from heaven!!!!

King Lear on stage

Here are some clips from the Classic Theatre International European tour of King Lear.  Currently I'm working on the rough cut of my film version.

The Zoo Story

Here is a clip from a New York rehearsal for the Classic Theatre International European Tour of The Zoo Story.

 



Gwen Ifill

My god, will she be missed. She was one of a kind: enormously charming, intelligent,warm, gracious, talented, inspirational, dignified and so much more. What a tremendous, wonderful woman. She will be terribly missed, in a present day culture which rarely projects these qualities.

Gwen Ifill, Host Of 'Washington Week' And 'PBS NewsHour,' Dies

Ifill was a veteran Washington journalist who covered seven presidential campaigns and moderated the vice presidential debates in 2004 and 2008.

npr.org

On the Election

I could not agree more.  Excellent piece.

Autocracy: Rules for Survival

Masha Gessen

Syria

As in Rwanda, the world frets and worries and debates and threatens and denounces ad infinitum ad nauseum, while innocent people are being murdered by their own government.

President Obama, like the European leaders, has proven that he is one of those people who is incapable of true outrage against moral turpitude.

There are no heroes here, neither presently nor historically.

Turkey, while trying to broker a ceasefire, still refuses to admit to the murder of over one million Armenians and makes it a crime even to say it occurred.

After the communists took over in China more than 20 million people were murdered.  Under Stalin more than 20 million also were murdered.  Naturally, China and Russia are the strongest supporters of Syria although the ultimate honors go to Hezbollah and Iran.

How interesting that the people who detest Israel the most have little or nothing to say against Syria.

It's called "selective outrage."

Film Clips

Here are some clips from stage and film: Glengarry Glen Ross,

No Deposit No Return, Winds Way, The Final Resolution, I Did Her Wrong.

 

 

Glengarry Glen Ross Act ll Part One by alexanderbarnett2

The Eyes of Van Gogh

There is an updated trailer for my film The Eyes of Van Gogh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfDePTHBah0

The Eyes of Van Gogh

Here is a new purchase option for the DVD of the film.  https://www.createspace.com/207068

Winterset

One of the first plays I did -- Maxwell Anderson's glorious Winterset -- has what may be my all-time favorite role: Mio Bartolomeo.  The play deals with the imagined aftermath of the Sacco and Vanzetti case.

Here is a still from the production. 

Alexander Barnett as Mio

Camera rehearsals for The Eyes of Van Gogh

 

 

 

The Eyes of Van Gogh: Behind the Scenes

Here is some behind the scenes rehearsal footage for the film.

The Eyes of Van Gogh

My film, The Eyes of Van Gogh, is now available from Reelhouse.