Anthony Dodge

Anthony Dodge

ANTHONY DODGE (PLAYWRIGHT) received an Edgar Award nomination by the prestigious Mystery Writers of America for his first play, SHERLOCK HOLMES & THE WEST END HORROR, co-written with his partner-in-crime onstage and off, his wife, Tony Award-nominated director, Marcia Milgrom Dodge. It was adapted from Nicholas Meyer’s novel and premiered at the Bay Street Theatre in 2002. Licensed by Playscripts, Inc., it...
ANTHONY DODGE (PLAYWRIGHT) received an Edgar Award nomination by the prestigious Mystery Writers of America for his first play, SHERLOCK HOLMES & THE WEST END HORROR, co-written with his partner-in-crime onstage and off, his wife, Tony Award-nominated director, Marcia Milgrom Dodge. It was adapted from Nicholas Meyer’s novel and premiered at the Bay Street Theatre in 2002. Licensed by Playscripts, Inc., it has been produced regionally, including productions at Asolo Repertory Theatre and Pioneer Theatre Company. His full-length musical comedy, LOOK HOMEWARD HONKY TONK ANGEL, with a score by country music star Larry Gatlin, premiered at Lyric Stage in Texas. HATS! A Musical For The Rest Of Your Life was developed from the Red Hat Society’s mission of “fun and friendship after fifty.” The musical, featuring his original book with songs by a collection of Tony, Grammy and Emmy winning songwriters, boasts productions in Denver, New Orleans and Chicago. HATS! was directed by acclaimed Broadway director & choreographer Lynne Taylor-Corbett. VENUS FLYTRAP A Femme Noir Mystery premiered at the Active Theater in NYC. FALLING LESSONS, adapted from journalist Michael Wolff’s New York Magazine Article, A Life Worth Ending starred Jason Alexander and Joyce Van Patten in a private reading in NYC. Most recently, THE MOUSE & THE MUSTACHE was developed with the Vanguard Arts Fund at Olney Theatre Center. A proud member of the Dramatists Guild and even prouder father of daughter Natasha, Tony, who is originally from Detroit, resides in NYC with his favorite director, MMD. Instagram: @tonydodgewriter

Plays

  • Cloudy With A Chance of Dementia by Anthony Dodge
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy
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    Keyword: age, health care + 1 more
    Genre: comedy
    Keyword: age, health care, act of kindness
    MOM, a patient in a care home, is visited by 2 attending doctors
    and 1 nurse on this particular day. This is not a play about the
    failings of medicine, it is a play about kindness. The lack of
    kindness, the appearance of kindness and real kindness. We need
    more.
  • The Mouse & The Mustache by Anthony Dodge
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, drama
    Genre: comedy, drama
    1947.
    Two men from different backgrounds meet in a Hollywood hotel room. In Dodge’s new play, they drink and debate about Art, Commerce and the occasional Rhinoceros. Their names are Disney & Dali and
    this is the true fiction of what happened.
  • Sherlock Holmes & The West End Horror-A RadioPlay c.2020 by Marcia Milgrom Dodge & by Anthony Dodge
    Cast: 
    7–30
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    Genre: adaptation, adventure + 5 more
    Genre: adaptation, adventure, comedy, drama, farce, melodrama, musical
    "Set in 1895, in London's fashionable theater district, the plot concerns two rather bizarre murders - one of a theater critic (egad!) and the other, the ingenue for the D'Oyly Carte season of Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas. Along with Richard D'Oyly Carte, W.S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan, there are appearances by other theatrical and literary luminaries of the day, such as Oscar...
    "Set in 1895, in London's fashionable theater district, the plot concerns two rather bizarre murders - one of a theater critic (egad!) and the other, the ingenue for the D'Oyly Carte season of Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas. Along with Richard D'Oyly Carte, W.S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan, there are appearances by other theatrical and literary luminaries of the day, such as Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, "Dracula" author Bram Stoker, and the great actors Sir Henry Irving and Dame Ellen Terry. They are all tossed into this glorious goulash of a play with such gleeful dexterity it will take your breath away. The thrill of watching skilled actors changing not only wigs and costumes, but their very silhouette, is exhilarating."
    ~JACK EDDLEMAN, Special to the Herald (Sarasota, Florida)

    Score: Upon Request
  • You've Got To Tell Her by Anthony Dodge
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy
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    Keyword: features LGBTQ character
    Genre: comedy
    Keyword: features LGBTQ character
    Sometimes your authentic self needs a little nudge.
    The play takes place in Row G of a large Broadway theatre. What follows is a true story. The names have been changed to protect the fabulous.

  • Falling Lessons by Anthony Dodge
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    8
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    Genre: adaptation, comedy
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    Keyword: family, medical coverage
    Genre: adaptation, comedy
    Keyword: family, medical coverage
    Three siblings on the brink of losing their Mother, jump through the hoops of the byzantine Elder Health Care system, and ultimately find themselves a family at the end.
  • Venus Flytrap A Femme Noir Mystery by Anthony Dodge
    Cast: 
    7
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, mystery/thriller, period
    Done in the snappy-patter style of the great mystery writer, Raymond Chandler, Dodge & Dodge explore a genre usually reserved for male dominated stories and male dominated heroes. Our detective is still a strong, sure, smooth operator, but this time it's a Woman. Butch Diamond likes women and they like her. A lot. Her physical attractiveness is secondary to her confidence and her moxie.
    While...
    Done in the snappy-patter style of the great mystery writer, Raymond Chandler, Dodge & Dodge explore a genre usually reserved for male dominated stories and male dominated heroes. Our detective is still a strong, sure, smooth operator, but this time it's a Woman. Butch Diamond likes women and they like her. A lot. Her physical attractiveness is secondary to her confidence and her moxie.
    While there are no chronicles confirming the 40's detective heroine as actually existing in those conservative times, the play explores how much--or how little--we have changed when it comes to embracing outcasts and disenfranchised citizens-- and journeys thr.ugh a world behind closed doors.
    And closets.
    You could call it a postmodernist-feminist mystery play.
    You could call it Femme Noir. We call it VENUS FL YTRAP
  • Sherlock Holmes & The West End Horror adapted from the novel "The West End Horror" by Nicholas Meyer by Anthony Dodge
    Cast: 
    7–35
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    Genre: adaptation, comedy + 1 more
    Genre: adaptation, comedy, mystery/thriller
    "Set in 1895, in London's fashionable theater district, the plot concerns two rather bizarre murders - one of a theater critic (egad!) and the other, the ingenue for the D'Oyly Carte season of Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas. Along with Richard D'Oyly Carte, W.S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan, there are appearances by other theatrical and literary luminaries of the day, such as Oscar...
    "Set in 1895, in London's fashionable theater district, the plot concerns two rather bizarre murders - one of a theater critic (egad!) and the other, the ingenue for the D'Oyly Carte season of Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas. Along with Richard D'Oyly Carte, W.S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan, there are appearances by other theatrical and literary luminaries of the day, such as Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, "Dracula" author Bram Stoker, and the great actors Sir Henry Irving and Dame Ellen Terry. They are all tossed into this glorious goulash of a play with such gleeful dexterity it will take your breath away. The thrill of watching skilled actors changing not only wigs and costumes, but their very silhouette, is exhilarating."
    ~JACK EDDLEMAN, Special to the Herald
  • Hats! A Musical For The Rest Of Your Life by Anthony Dodge
    Cast: 
    7
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    Genre: comedy, musical
    Genre: comedy, musical
    Hats! is written by husband-and-wife team Anthony Dodge & Marcia Milgrom Dodge with songs by Doug Besterman, Susan Birkenhead, Michele Brourman, Pat Bunch, Gretchen Cryer, Anthony Dodge, Marcia Milgrom Dodge, Beth Falcone, David Friedman, Kathie Lee Gifford, David Goldsmith, Carol Hall, Henry Krieger, Stephen Lawrence, Melissa Manchester, Amanda McBroom, Pam Tillis and Sharon Vaughn.
    Inspired by The...
    Hats! is written by husband-and-wife team Anthony Dodge & Marcia Milgrom Dodge with songs by Doug Besterman, Susan Birkenhead, Michele Brourman, Pat Bunch, Gretchen Cryer, Anthony Dodge, Marcia Milgrom Dodge, Beth Falcone, David Friedman, Kathie Lee Gifford, David Goldsmith, Carol Hall, Henry Krieger, Stephen Lawrence, Melissa Manchester, Amanda McBroom, Pam Tillis and Sharon Vaughn.
    Inspired by The Red Hat Society, Hats! is an original musical about a 49.999-year-old woman, MaryAnne, who reluctantly faces the inevitable 50th birthday. In the production, MaryAnne warms up to her 50th once she meets several remarkable women who show her about fun and friendship after 50.
  • Look Homeward Honky Tonk Angel with songs by Larry Gatlin by Anthony Dodge
    Cast: 
    7–13
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    Genre: comedy, musical + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, musical, romantic comedy
    On the eve of Country music legend Jimmy John Angel’s Reunion Concert with his ex-wife and even bigger star, Dixie Diamond, Jimmy John’s life of unscrupulous trickery--on stage and off – is exposed in this cross between KISS ME KATE and THE GRAND OLE OPRY. Featuring over a dozen Gatlin hits plus 4 more written exclusively for the musical—this brand new musical comedy is sure to delight fans of both Country...
    On the eve of Country music legend Jimmy John Angel’s Reunion Concert with his ex-wife and even bigger star, Dixie Diamond, Jimmy John’s life of unscrupulous trickery--on stage and off – is exposed in this cross between KISS ME KATE and THE GRAND OLE OPRY. Featuring over a dozen Gatlin hits plus 4 more written exclusively for the musical—this brand new musical comedy is sure to delight fans of both Country Music and the classic Broadway musical!
  • Free Burt Lancaster by Anthony Dodge
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: dark comedy
    Genre: dark comedy
    It's Fall 1963. Sidney Bernstein, a brash cub Reporter resents his routine assignment and steals a lead on the deathwatch on the notorious Robert Stroud, The Birdman of Alcatraz. Through legwork and pluck, Sidney discovers that the legend of The Birdman is fiction and resolves to find and print The Truth. Along his journey he encounters the author of the book "The Birdman of Alcatraz," the last...
    It's Fall 1963. Sidney Bernstein, a brash cub Reporter resents his routine assignment and steals a lead on the deathwatch on the notorious Robert Stroud, The Birdman of Alcatraz. Through legwork and pluck, Sidney discovers that the legend of The Birdman is fiction and resolves to find and print The Truth. Along his journey he encounters the author of the book "The Birdman of Alcatraz," the last Warden on The Rock, the prison Chaplin, the Head of the Parole Board and many others including Hollywood star Burt Lancaster and the real Robert Stroud. Stroud is an unrepentant killer, as interested in his notoriety as he is his fame, and gloats how he will be remembered the world over. Sidney, through his stubborn determination discovers surprising things about the ugly side of this legend-and himself.
  • Venus Flytrap-A Monologue by Anthony Dodge
    Cast: 
    1
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    Genre: comedy
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    Keyword: contains LGBTQ character
    Genre: comedy
    Keyword: contains LGBTQ character
    A Femme Noir Mystery
    Butch Diamond is a private dick without one.