February 6, 2023
There certainly was a lot of drama involved forty-plus years ago after the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund--following a nationwide blind competition--chose a design created by a 19-year-old Yale University student named Maya Lin for the…
September 7, 2021
Ashes are Ashes is a short, one-act play dealing with loss, remembrance, and brotherhood written by Mike Thompson, who served as a medic in the Vietnam War in 1966-67. Thompson worked with the 20th Preventive Medicine…
August 12, 2021
Peace on Earth: The Christmas Truce of 1914, is a one-act play, written in 2014 by Kurt Hyde. The play, one of the winners of the 2015 Denton Community Theater Method and Madness New Play…
November 2, 2020
In honor of Veterans Day and the Vietnam Babylift's 45th anniversary, Children of the April Rain, a play that deals with that famed humanitarian effort at the end of the American war in Vietnam, will…
January 27, 2020
Review by Marc Leepson, VVA Veteran Arts Editor and Senior Writer The Last Full Measure, the fact-based Vietnam War-heavy movie that opened nationwide on January 24, 2020, features a five-pack of big-time Baby Boomer male…
June 12, 2019
Paul Drew, the author of a memoir---After the Storm: A Vietnam Veteran's Reflections---and a Vietnam War novel, Jenny 4, will be doing a staged reading of a one-act play he wrote based on the novel,…
January 15, 2018
Review by Marc Leepson, VVA Veteran Arts Editor and Senior Writer It’s not every day that a big Hollywood movie opens with an in-country Vietnam War combat scene. In fact, it’s a rarity in the…
December 26, 2016
David Berry, the playwright and screenwriter whose acclaimed 1977 play, "G.R. Point" was based on his service in the Vietnam War, died December 16 at age 73 following a heart attack. Berry joined the Army in…
August 10, 2016
The Vietnam Babylift play, Children of the April Rain , will be presented at the East Williston Community Church Theater in East Williston, New York, on Sunday, September 25, at 3:00 p.m. The play tells…
August 10, 2016
You can read Patrick Underwood’s play, War(ped) on line at the playwright’s new web page at https://patrick317blog.wordpress.com/2017/02/19/warped/. Underwood served with a construction engineer battalion in the southern Central Highlands in Vietnam in 1970-71. In this, his…