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I'm so pleased with the final edit of "The Mountain Contest!" It's the latest episode on Airship Genesis, and I got to reprise my role as Elijah! 
For about 20 years I've been doing a short play about Elijah called "Prophet of Fear" ( www.RichDrama.com/ShortPieces). In ...
06.02.19 05:55 PM - Comment(s)
What a joy it's been to be a part of Revelation the Musical. I'm half-way through my three weeks of this Off-Broadway run which will run through June 9.

I’ve been performing my own one-man play based on The Revelation for almost 20 years, so I’m just delighted to be playing John in this musical pr...
05.18.19 07:57 PM - Comment(s)

I just posted my review of Noah: www.Blog.RichDrama.com.
Posted by Rich Swingle on  Wednesday, April 10, 2019


We loved Sight & Sound Theatre's production of Noah, as filmed for their Fathom Event release, and not just because I played Noah's son Ham in The Adventum, and Shem in the Begi...
04.10.19 06:56 PM - Comment(s)
We just found out about a musical production of Revelation, which presents the final book of the Bible word-for-word, spoken and sung. It's running May 9 through June 9 at The Players Theatre, 115 MacDougal St., NYC: www.Revelation.nyc.

Watch the trailer below by clicking the arrow, or if you're g...
03.19.19 04:43 PM - Comment(s)

We got a sneak peek of a filmed performance of the Sight & Sound production of Moses, which is heading to movie theaters on September 13 and 15.

I've wanted to see a Sight & Sound production for about 20 years, and I noticed some obvious differences between Sight & Sound and Broadway:...
09.12.18 09:15 AM - Comment(s)

We got a sneak peek of a filmed performance of the Sight & Sound production of  Moses, which is heading to movie theaters on September 13 and 15. I'll post my review on September 12, but don't wait to reserve your tickets: www.MosesEvent.com.

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07.18.18 10:08 AM - Comment(s)
Performing "The Prophet
of Fear" atop Mt. Carmel
in Israel.
I'll be performing my one-man, one-act play " Prophet of Fear" this Sunday at The Crowne Plaza in White Plains, NY. It tells the story of Elijah and the prophets of Baal on top of Mt. Carmel and the fear that struck his ...
04.23.18 06:54 PM - Comment(s)
Joyce teaches on Gideon from Judges 6-8 and the life of King Saul from I Samuel 8-15. Opening by Pastor Jim Warren, who also reads lyrics from Chris Tomlin's "Whom Shall I Fear?" Prayer and announcements by Dr. Linda Warren, who mentions the trailer for I Can Only Imagine, which you ...
03.19.18 01:03 AM - Comment(s)


Keith and Kristyn Getty have invited the world to a Global Hymn Sing this Sunday, February 25, 2018.

The hymn they've chosen is "Jesus Will Reign," which Eric Liddell led a crowd in singing just before boarding the train which started his trek to China. His Olympic gold and bronze medals, ...
02.23.18 03:03 PM - Comment(s)
Keith and Kristyn Getty have invited the world to a Global Hymn Sing this coming Sunday, February 25, 2018. 

The hymn they've chosen is "Jesus Will Reign," which Eric Liddell led a crowd in singing just before boarding the train which started his trek to China. His Olympic gold and bro...
02.22.18 10:08 AM - Comment(s)
Our performances of Henry Box Brown went miraculously well! Though Joyce had already seen it five times, she got up at 3:30 am, after going to bed after midnight, to be an on-site intercessor for our performance for students. She prayed over all 3,000 chairs, and the students, representing more tha...
02.17.18 04:34 PM - Comment(s)

Two prayers of my heart from twenty years ago were answered!

I heard about the Christian Cultural Center, the largest church in New York City and one of the largest independent churches in the US, shortly after moving here in 1993. As I started to develop my own one-man plays it was on my heart ...
02.06.18 03:57 PM - Comment(s)

Times Square Church is offering a new production of The Cross and the Switchblade throughout October at the Mark Hellinger Theatre. It's a Broadway house which has been the church's home since 1991.

This story is one of the reasons I moved to NYC. Mom read the book, The Cross and the Switchblade t...
10.15.17 01:21 AM - Comment(s)
The final performance of our students at the Salvation Army's Territorial Arts Ministry Conservatory is now online. You can watch the full finale below. My students' performance, which we created via sociodrama based on the demoniac and jailer at Philippi, is at 39:25. You have to watch it on ...
08.14.17 02:19 AM - Comment(s)
I've been having a blast performing, teaching and directing at my 13th Salvation Army TAM Conservatory. Our theme has been "Power to Be," based on Acts 1:8: "But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea ...
08.11.17 08:08 PM - Comment(s)
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I've been cast in an exciting New York City production, Celebrity Confessions: Live from Broadway, which opens June 12!

We'll be baring our souls and sharing how the Lord met us in our lowest valleys.

Among the cast I have four friends involved:

Dan...
06.03.17 08:05 PM - Comment(s)
We saw a fantastic production of Pilgrim's Progress last week put on by The Glory Shop. I was proud of Alexis Duperree and Nealson Munn, who were my students at the Salvation Army Conservatory where I teach and direct most summers. Of course Nealson was playing guitar, so I had nothing to do with ...
03.28.17 04:43 PM - Comment(s)
I LOVED the Broadway production of Fiddler on the Roof

The only way it was "modernized" (usually done by adding expletives, etc.) was a brilliant envelope: They had action at the beginning and end which compels us to consider sharing the burden of those under oppression. For the Jewi...
03.26.16 08:23 PM - Comment(s)
Stage directions: Enter, sit, pour tea, stand, exit.

That's about it. But in the 90 minutes it takes to execute that simple blocking our attention did not waver for a second.

Of course it didn't hurt that the script was based on the writings of C.S. Lewis, one of the most brilliant minds of any g...
09.20.14 10:00 PM - Comment(s)
Rich Swingle will lead Cry of the Whole Congregation by Walter Wangerin, Jr., from his book The Ragman and Other Cries of Faith.

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04.19.14 02:15 AM - Comment(s)

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