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The Snapping Turtle: Ginny, Georgia, Storytelling, and Representation
"Who'll be the next in line?"-The Kinks
Aug 226 min read
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Down with the Sickness (To Thine Own Shelf Be True)
A short tour of my book collection
Mar 283 min read
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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,...
Oct 18, 20248 min read
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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...
Oct 11, 20244 min read
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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...
Jul 26, 20246 min read
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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...
Jun 28, 20244 min read
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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...
May 3, 20245 min read
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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...
Mar 22, 20247 min read
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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...
Sep 15, 202310 min read
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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...
Jul 14, 202311 min read
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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...
May 26, 202312 min read
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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...
May 19, 202318 min read
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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...
May 12, 202322 min read
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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)...
Jan 13, 202316 min read
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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...
Dec 30, 202213 min read
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