A short tour of my book collection

A sense of Shakespeare on Film

A recitation of Lord Byron's poem "She Walks in Beauty."

An audio recording of a monologue from William Shakespeare's LOVE'S LABOR'S LOST.

Another vlog- a Youtube recitation of Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess"

An audio recitation of Robert Browning's "Porphyria's Lover."

A new essay from your resident contrarian.

There are a myriad number of stories of great writers being burned by Hollywood. At the beginning of the sound age, dramatists of note...

Greetings, readers! I hope you all had a nice holiday season and are as ready for the New Year as I am. 2024 was both challenging and...

Growing up as an actor, I always believed actors were born, not made. Certainly, one can learn techniques of speaking and movement,...

Not all holidays are created equally, but there is a ubiquity about them. It is necessary, for example, to have a bright spot in the...

Note: This is not meant to be a criticism of the entirety of the Me Too movement, but one story of those who exploited it for...

As you read this, we are in the second day of summer, a season I appreciate (for all the life, the beauty, the cooling pool outside, the...

Whenever I contemplate who America’s dramatic masters are, my answer is always Eugene O’Neill and Edward Albee. The reason for this is...

I was perhaps in my junior year of high school when the news broke that, after many years of speculation and debate, Thomas Jefferson,...

Last week, in reviewing Netflix’ new docuseries The Outreau Case: A French Nightmare, I brusquely went over a subject near and dear—the...

While during his lifetime, his work became more and more critically derided, there has been a resurgence of interest in American...

I’m still vertical. It’s a low bar for living, but there you are. After this experience—rehearsing for my first stage role in nearly 20...

Prefatory Note: I acknowledge I can never understand the suffering women have experienced and continue to experience in instances of...

I recently got the exciting news that a short play of mine, Approaching the Summer Sun, is slated for publication in the first issue of...