** out of **** We find ourselves in that time of year where films in which studios have no faith are dumped on the American public. The...

Greetings, readers, writers, and supporters. It’s time once again to recap the year at the writer’s desk. In addition to my first full...

So, for the past three weeks, I’ve chosen heartwarming, fun Christmas fare. Offbeat perhaps, but traditional. Now. It’s time for the dam...

While I will stipulate that the story of Christ’s birth is perhaps the Greatest Story Ever Told, I maintain that Charles Dickens’ A...

Premiering with A Garfield Christmas Special in 1987, Will Vinton’s Claymation Christmas Celebration is another underrated gem of a...

Welcome to the holiday season. In my lifetime, Christmas has gone from something you might start celebrating the day after Thanksgiving...

In the early 2000s, I inherited a book collection from my former theatre teacher. It was a virtual treasure trove of hardcover and...

This article originally appeared on an earlier blog and was included in the collection Everyone Else is Wrong (And You Know It):...

At a bachelor party in the prairies. Here for my friend’s wedding. I have nothing in common with these men in uniform, but am happy to be...

I have always hated Thursdays. I consider them insufferable twenty-four periods you have to wade through to get to Friday and the start...

I find myself often at a loss as to what publishers of poetry and drama want these days. I’m told the subjects to which I’ve always been...

In March of 2007, I was picked up from the hospital by my folks and nephews. Unbeknownst to me, I had an allergic reaction to sulfa drugs...

Last week, like countless others, I was moved by the death of Michael Gambon, a British actor who did amazing things onstage and off. As...

Yes, I am a poet (playwright), two hundred years too late… I was born with the umbilical cord wrapped around my neck, choking me. When I...

All photographs, save the last image, appear courtesy of Steven Ross. For more information about his work, visit his website. The odds...

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...

After seven weeks of hashing out words (when I was able) about the rehearsal process for a production of Waiting for Godot I’m currently...

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...

Last Friday night, the show finally settled into a place where the bones were there. I don’t know when we started using the word bones to...

Week 5 As mentioned last week, Virginia Samford Theatre, near Linn Park in Birmingham holds a lot of special memories for me. Between...