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YOU SAY POTATO, I SAY POTAHTO…Meet Chris Newbound Some people spell it “playwrite” but I’ve always preferred “playwright”, using the Old English suffix that means “builder”. Writing a play seems as much craft as art, [...]

Last Thursday, as I watched two PMP kids shape a scene, I was impressed by their fearless improvisational dexterity. The scene’s basic through-line was the friction that comes when two characters are engaged in the [...]

When I was young, I dreaded slumber parties. I only went because it was easier to accept an invitation from somebody as formidable as Kathy Schlegel than to try and come up with an excuse [...]

There’s a new movie slated to open. It’s called Saving Mr. Banks, and it’s about the testy relationship between Walt Disney and P. L. Travers during the filming of the 1964 hit Mary Poppins, starring [...]

Ask anybody in my family and they’ll tell you that I’m kind of a klutz. I possess a bizarre flair for tripping over infinitesimal cracks in the sidewalk. I know that this is at least [...]

It’s happening. Maybe this is the natural order when middle age creeps in. It’s become harder and harder for me to distinguish what was real and what’s been altered/amended/adjusted by that gauzy scrim of time. [...]

Last weekend, in a bare bones rehearsal room in the basement of the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center, a special brand of alchemy was set in motion. For 12 hours, actors, academicians, college [...]