News - Max Langert

Three Shows in Eight Days

January 22, 2023January 22, 2023Leave a comment

Welp, it’s been a few years but FronteraFest — my old stomping ground — is back. I’m not really ready for it. I feel like an out-of-shape boxer asked to step back into the ring after retirement. BUT I’m in for a penny (actually, three pennies) and basically in for a (or three) pound/s....

Ditching the Fitbit

January 21, 2023January 21, 2023Leave a comment

When I was traveling out west a couple of weeks ago, I suddenly got the urge to do some research about the Fitbit that’s been on my wrist 23.5 hours a day for the past 3 years. I read a few articles that talked about negligible radiation associated with the Bluetooth elements of it....

A Slow Thought Movement?

January 15, 2023January 21, 2023Leave a comment

I think about this off and on, and wanted to finally get it down in some notes. I feel like I’ve been fighting against these forces in my life where there’s tremendous perceived value in instantaneous decision-making. I’ve worked in jobs where the people who get the most attention and praise are the ones...

A Million More to Go… to Los Angeles?

December 9, 2022December 9, 2022Leave a comment

This is kinda preliminary, but I’ve had some interest in this piece we did a reading for in the spring by some theater folks in Los Angeles, so I’m waiting to hear more. But I’d love to do that play (which is a bit of a satire of recent election shenanigans) while it’s still...

The Cross-Eyed Loon

November 25, 2022November 25, 2022Leave a comment

I’ve completed a draft of the pilot episode of this Maine-based sitcom I mentioned back in May. The current name of the show is THE CROSS-EYED LOON, inspired by The Cockeyed Gull, a real place on Peaks Island off the coast of Portland. Here’s a quick summary: In this pilot episode, a...

Come and See THE PACT!

October 8, 2022October 8, 20222 Comments

We’ve had a couple of good reviews in Broadway World and Central Texas Live, and there may be another one or two coming, but audiences have been uniformly really positive and enthusiastic. If that’s not all, an old work friend of mine busted out of the theater the other night when the lights came...

“Get Ready”

September 19, 2022September 19, 2022Leave a comment

I heard an interview with Sheryl Lee Ralph (from Abbot Elementary and Dreamgirls) the other day. And I want to say first off that she’s great and talented and has an exceptionally resilient attitude and deserves all the awards she can get. One of the things she said which resonated with me – when...

Middling in Midland

September 13, 2022September 13, 2022Leave a comment

Okay, we were in Dallas, not Midland, but that’s a headline I’ve always wanted to write. Our team got off to a rocky start at the World Series this year (3rd qualification in 5 years for me) but we started hitting better once we got slotted in the “losers’ bracket” and clawed our way...

Glory Days

August 28, 2022August 28, 2022Leave a comment

After visiting a couple of old friends out west, and attending a memorial service with them too, I was loaned some old photos I hadn’t seen in forever. That top/left one is a high school gig I had with my old band Reverse (nice mod tie and electric drums, yo!). And then these are...