The undoing of America 2000-2008
It didn’t take much. Some loose footing here, a push there. And then, in 2008, everything we’d been working toward since the end of World War II was gone. Many were caught off-guard, [...]
Roommates face off in hilarious Ripcord!
Abby Binder (Randi Douglas) is a grouch. And it’s no secret that she doesn’t want a roommate. Never has. When she is assigned one at the senior living facility where she resides, she [...]
“…the ‘thunder’ that is Fences”
Lou Bellamy, director of Portland Playhouse‘s current production Fences, accurately describes August Wilson‘s Pulitzer Prize-winning play as “the ‘thunder’ that is [...]
Between Riverside and Crazy–a New York state of mind
When I saw Stephen Adly Guirgis‘s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Between Riverside and Crazy, it put me in a New York state of mind. Now running at Artists Repertory Theatre, the play does not [...]
A visit to Elysian Fields
What a heady thing it must have been to be a young man in this country in 1946. For most of those who survived World War II, it must have felt like the world was their oyster. They had survived [...]