Playwright Theresa Rebeck is the guest blogger for the NY Times arts blog. And her first blog quotes me – right at the beginning, where even people who aren’t sure they want to read it will see me! Kind of cool.

Here it is:

Somebody recently told me that one of my plays, “The Understudy,” was “too funny.”

Comedy is historically undervalued, and one does wonder when we’re going to get over that. But “too funny”? Now we have to deal with “too funny”?

I started asking around about it. My friend Jessica Bauman, who is a wonderful director, felt like she understood the criticism and tried to explain it in a nice way.

“Your plays are so funny people don’t notice how serious they are,” she said. “They’re enjoying themselves too much. So they stop listening.”

For those of you who actually do want to read the whole thing, it’s quite smart and interesting. Check it out! http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/01/theater-talkback-the-perils-of-being-too-funny/