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	<description>Practical stuff for writers, actors, directors and techs in church drama ministries</description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 14:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Best Musical: Second Chance to Win RileysDiner Sketch</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 14:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here’s your second chance to win a free sketch from RileysDiner. For details for the entire contest, check out our earlier post.
For your second entry, send an email to rileyscontest@gmail.com to tell us the winner in the Best Musical category. Please include your name, address and the name of the play you&#8217;re voting for. For [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best Play: First Chance to Win RileysDiner Sketch</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 11:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Here’s the first of four chances to win a free sketch from RileysDiner. Check out our earlier post for the details on the entire contest.
For your first entry, send an email to rileyscontest@gmail.com to tell us the winner in the Best Play category. Please include your name, address and the name of the play you&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four Chances to Win RileysDiner Script in Our Tony Awards Contest</title>
		<link>http://rileysdiner.com/blog/?p=80</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 01:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Watch for our Tony Awards contest next month on our Facebook page for up to four chances to win a free script from RileysDiner.com. Here&#8217;s how it works.
The Tony nominees will be announced May 1. Each Saturday in May, we&#8217;ll post one of the categories here on the RileysDiner blog, and you email us to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Judgement House,&#8221; Other Scary Church Plays Thrive on Manipulating People</title>
		<link>http://rileysdiner.com/blog/?p=77</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 22:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Years ago, I went to a performance of &#34;Heaven&#8217;s Gates and Hell&#8217;s Flames&#34; at a church near my home in the St. Louis metro region. The play was a series of vignettes depicting different people dying and facing their eternal judgments.
Some went to Heaven; others were dragged away screaming to Hell. As a drama, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Know When You&#8217;ve Got the Right Ending for Your Script</title>
		<link>http://rileysdiner.com/blog/?p=74</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 05:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Endings are hard. 
I’ve been working on a long overdue new sketch for the website. When I read what I’ve written so far, I’m really happy with it until I get to the end. It just sort of stops. Something about the ending doesn’t work for me. I know that it’s not ready. It doesn’t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Sweet Church Drama Scripts for Valentine&#8217;s Day</title>
		<link>http://rileysdiner.com/blog/?p=63</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 05:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Valentine’s Day is less than a month away. That’s still enough time to put together a drama for the Sunday before the holiday. We have three scripts – “He Shoots, She Scores,” “The Wedded-Bliss Title Agency” and “Escape to Nowhere” – that you could order from the RileysDiner menu. Place your order today, and you’ll [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Want To Be A Good Actor? Start Acting Like a Child</title>
		<link>http://rileysdiner.com/blog/?p=60</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 03:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Technorati Tags: Acting,Monologue,Storytelling
OK. This is way too cute. Make yourself a hot cup of coffee and spend the next seven-and-a-half minutes watching this little girl tell the story of Jonah.&#160; 




This would be a great video to show your church drama group. Start a discussion about what this girl does that makes her delivery so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Than 1,300 Experience Pflugerville Church&#8217;s Dramatic Journey on &#8216;The Road to Bethlehem&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://rileysdiner.com/blog/?p=59</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2010 04:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Technorati Tags: Christmas,The Road to Bethlehem
More than 1,300 people turned our for two performances of Pflugerville Community Church’s production of “Journey to Bethlehem” on Dec. 3-4. This is the sixth year that the church, which is about 20 miles north of Austin, Texas, has performed my one-act interactive Christmas drama – and I’m honored that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Hesperia&#8221; Gets Dialogue Right for Church People</title>
		<link>http://rileysdiner.com/blog/?p=56</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I traveled to Chicago last Saturday to see the closing night of “Hesperia,” a play by Randall Colburn and staged by the Right Brain Project. It’s part of a commitment that I’m making to seeing plays, not just reading them. Both are important if you want to write for the stage.



In the play, Claudia is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When &#8220;Doctor Who&#8221; Resembled Church Drama</title>
		<link>http://rileysdiner.com/blog/?p=55</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 04:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The new season of Doctor Who premieres on BBC America tonight with Matt Smith stepping in to the lead role as the 11th incarnation of the Time Lord who travels the universe in search of adventure. I’ve been a fan of the show since I discovered the classic series on our local PBS station when [...]]]></description>
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