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A Stage Play About Nat Turner – On November 11, 1831, Nat Turner was hanged for his role in a slave uprising. But his name lived on as a dire warning to slave owners, even as it was an inspiration for their slaves.

Many theater performers want to be on stage when they are older. A good number have never acted before, others have performed when they were young and want to do it again.  Some have acted all their lives and they know the joy of performing.

  The Beginning: I started writing Refraction of Light more years ago than I would like to admit. It started out as a one-act called Nightside, which still exists. It takes place in 1975 in the Berkley section of Norfolk, Virginia, where the main character, Harry Rosen, a Jewish refugee. is aging and fighting the […]

School shootings, mass violence, and guns have become commonplace in our society. The “stranger danger” mantra of the last decade no longer applies. Looking over our shoulders is not a helpful strategy—our next menace is probably sitting with us at the local fast fooderie, school cafeteria or outdoor concert. And some officials are suggesting arming […]

Attracting Theatre Studies Students Finding competent students has become an increasingly difficult task for most colleges and universities over the years.  This decline is mostly mathematical. Schools and programs have increased more than the number of students likely to populate them. At the Maslow MA/MFA Program for Creative Writing where I teach playwriting, for example, […]

Will we have to find ourselves in a country of over-twenty-ones? Will we bury the last of our school children before our country considers ALL of the deadly dynamics culminating in an historic loss of young lives due to violence? A newly published drama for teens and adults invites audiences to challenge current assumptions about […]

The Problem With Opera Much of the great operatic literature (contemporary or classic) is plagued with an issue audiences tend to tolerate. The music is riveting.  The plot and the character development –well, not so much.  Candide, of course, is one of the exceptions. Another may be Lucia di Lammermoor. But even then, you have […]

Discount Coupons Is there a book that you have been meaning to get? Or do you need that perfect gift for someone special? Do you also want to support a theatrical production that commemorates the Holocaust? Read on to get your discount coupon code. Distant Survivors by June Prager is based on the Holocaust-themed poetry […]

Theatre; Just Because dinner theatre presented in partnership with and in support of Waypoints, directed by Michelle Thorne. The fundraiser in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada was for the Waypoints charity local women’s shelter annual fundraising event. The play ” Fanny and Manny Tie the Knot”  was written by Leslie McBlair and Published by Blue Moon Plays. […]

A play about the holocaust can sometimes be horrifying, stark or fact-filled and biographical. Distant Survivors differs greatly from these as it focuses on the drama contained in Holocaust Poetry. Plays based on holocaust diaries like the Diary of Anne Frank can represent the practical and fearsome challenges of confinement and fear of discovery.