To My Teachers, with Love
Growing up as an actor, I always believed actors were born, not made. Certainly, one can learn techniques of speaking and movement,...
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Oct 114 min read
Columbus Day and the Offended Generation
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...
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Jul 266 min read
THEATRE DOWNTOWN's PRELUDE TO A KISS: A Stage Review
Birmingham, Alabama is like many cities across the United States. There is an abundance of theatrical talent (most of it untapped and...
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Jun 284 min read
On Political Theatre
In this year where everyone is on their tiptoes awaiting one form of political turmoil or another, my thoughts have been drifting toward...
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May 35 min read
EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH: 20th Century Masterpiece
In the mid-1970s, when the country was in a deep malaise over Watergate, Vietnam, the failure of most of the late-60s protests, artists...
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Mar 227 min read
Cancellation or Practicality: The Life and Death of a Play
I rather enjoy publishing a blog post that announces a new publication. It is rather another thing to write one about the revocation of a...
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Sep 15, 202310 min read
New York, New York
As we have just passed the 22nd anniversary of the terrible loss on 9/11/01, I thought about old New York. I was scrolling through social...
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Jul 14, 202311 min read
On Joy, Luck, and the Color Purple
Prefatory Note: I acknowledge I can never understand the suffering women have experienced and continue to experience in instances of...
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May 26, 202312 min read
David Henry Hwang, pt. 3: Hollywood and Beyond
For this final week of May, Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, I conclude celebrating my mentor and teacher David Henry...
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May 19, 202318 min read
David Henry Hwang, pt 2: Musical Voyages
For the next two weeks, in honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, I continue to celebrate my mentor and teacher...
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May 12, 202322 min read
David Henry Hwang, pt 1: More Than M. Butterfly
For the next few weeks, in honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, I will celebrate my mentor and teacher David...
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Jan 13, 202316 min read
The Juvenilia: First Words
Everyone has apprentice plays. Most people don’t know Eugene O’Neill and Tennessee Williams wrote dozens of plays (rarely performed now)...
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Dec 30, 202213 min read
2022 in Perspective
Greetings as we ring out the old and ring in the new! I want to thank those of you who have supported the new website and Facebook page...
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