Non-Fiction
Occasional essays were published on multiple websites, most collected in Everyone Else is Wrong (And You Know It).
"Acting in Waiting for Godot"
"An Actor's Journal"
“An Afternoon at the Movies: Portrait of the Artist as Emerging Hermit”
"Anatomies of Influence"
"The Burning Monk and Me"
"The Bluffs at Lost Creek: A Memory of Dad"
"Cancellation or Practicality: The Life and Death of a Play"
"Columbus Day and the Offended Generation"
“David Mamet and the State of American Theatre with a Brief History of our Major Playwrights”
"Fallen Starman: A Reminiscence of Drama School"
“Favorites”
“Introduction to Love Suicide“
"Jimmy Buffett (1946-2023): A Legend"
"Jefferson and Hemings"
"The Juvenilia: First Words"
"Life, Death, and Politics in 2024"
"Marilyn Monroe: The Death of Arthur Miller"
"Meeting Craig Lucas"
”Me Too and Me”
"Mia Farrow and the Me Too Misfire"
"My Boy Gabriel"
"My Favorite Alice in Wonderland"
"Native Children"
"New York, New York"
"Not I but Also: Notes from an Age of Madness"
"O. J. and the Nature of Tragedy"
"The Old gods are Dead: Farewell to the Movies"
"On Learning and Teaching"
"On Joy, Luck, and the Color Purple"
"On (Not) Being Influenced by Tennessee Williams"
"On Profanity"
"On the Provenance of Summer (And Why I Hate It)"
"On Wagner" and Disconnect"
​"One More Time Again with James Taylor"
"Our Anxious World"
"Our Furry Friends: A Goodbye to Macey"
"A Quarter Century at the Table Writing Plays"
"Reckoning with Jim Carrey (Finally)"
"Remembering Spalding Gray"
"The Room: A 20th Anniversary Celebration"
"Sondheim on Film"
"Soundbite Obits"
"To My Teachers, with Love"
"The Truth Narrative: Ross E. Cheit & Witch Hunts"
"Two is the Loneliest Number"
"A Writer Looks at Forty"
“Writing for Others”
“Writing Night Shade“
"He doesn't write about hot-button topics you see in the headlines each day. He writes about things that aren't going away-- love, God, death and taxes."
Rick Watson
Daily Mountain Eagle