Drama

'Hey, Hey, LBJ" Theater Piece at the D.C. Fringe Festival

July 16, 2014

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="549" caption="Kleinberg in Vietnam in 1968"] [/caption] David Kleinberg, who served with the Army's the 25th Infantry Division at Cu Chi in Vietnam from 1966 -67 as a combat correspondent has written…

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New LBJ-Heavy Play: 'The Great Society'

September 3, 2013

The Great Society,  a play that focuses on President Lyndon Johnson and his domestic and foreign policies from the time he took office in 1963 to his March 1968 decision to seek peace in Vietnam…

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Grisham's 'A Time to Kill' to Broadway

June 26, 2013

  John Grisham's first novel, A Time to Kill , which came out in 1989, was---no surprise---a tautly written, page-turning legal thriller. The plot: a young lawyer in Mississippi defends an African-American Vietnam veteran who…

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Snapshot, One Woman Show in L.A.

April 1, 2013

Mitzi Sinnott's award-winning, one-person play, SNAPSHOT: A True story of Love Interrupted by Invasion , will be running in Los Angeles at the Greenway Court Theatre  starting this Thursday, April 4, and going through Sunday, April 21.…

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'The Steadfast' : A Multi-War Play in NYC

January 26, 2013

  The limited-run play, "The Steadfast, " which is on view at the TGB Theater in New York City through February 3, is based on a painting called "Legacy" by Steve Alpert. The painting depicts…

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New Broadway Play With a Strong Vietnam War Theme

April 24, 2012

  It's not every day that a play with a strong Vietnam War theme opens on Broadway. One of those days is tomorrow, Wednesday, April 25, when the drama "The Columnist , " written by…

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On Stage: Words of War from Hollywood Movies

February 1, 2012

The play, "Gonna See a Movie Called Gunga Din, " which is running at The Bushwick Starr Theater in Brooklyn, New York, through February 11, is an amalgam of stories collected from real veterans and…

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Bronze Star: New Drama at Citrus College in Calif.

November 7, 2011

Citrus College history professor Bruce Solheim's new play, “Bronze Star, ” based on the life of his friend, Vietnam veteran Carl Ferguson, an Army draftee who received a Bronze Star and who committed suicide in…

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Veterans Theatre Project at Citrus College

June 14, 2011

Citrus College history professor Bruce Solheim has written a new play, "Bronze Star, " based on the life of his friend, Vietnam veteran Carl Ferguson, an Army draftee who received a Bronze Star and who…

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War Legacy Drama: A Shadow of Honor

March 4, 2011

The play, A Shadow of Honor , which had its world premiere at the Keegan Theatre in Washington, D.C., in January, has a two-pronged plot tied together by the legacies of America's wars on different…

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