September 15, 2010
The play, Only a Ridgeline Away , was presented in late August and early September at the San Juan Community Theatre in Friday Harbor, Washington. Written and directed by playwright, Vietnam veteran, and Friday Harbor…
March 4, 2010
You read it here first: if you have even the slightest interest in World War II, the U.S. Marine Corps, American history, or--even more importantly--top quality TV drama, you will be glued to your TV…
October 14, 2009
Standing O Productions, a new theater company in Severna Park, Maryland, will be present its version of the Vietnam War play Tracers Nov. 13-22. The play, first put together by a group of Vietnam veterans…
September 4, 2009
On May 17, 1968, during the height of the Vietnam War--and of the antiwar movement--nine people, including two priests and a former nun, broke into a suburban Baltimore draft board (in Catonsville, Maryland), and burned…
June 18, 2009
Bryan Doerries founded The Philoctetes Project , an innovative form of psychodrama using ancient Greek plays, in New York City last year as a way to help emotionally troubled active-duty military personnel and veterans. In…
February 20, 2009
Tonight, Friday, February 20, is the first of ten performances at the Kensington Arts Theatre in Kensington, Maryland, of One Red Flower, new musical play inspired by the book, Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam…
November 24, 2008
Photo by Tina Barney There's a terrific profile of the playwright David Rabe by John Lahr in the November 24 New Yorker . In the article, headlined "Land of Lost Souls: David Rabe's America, "…
November 20, 2008
Sara Krulwich/The New York Times David Rabe, one of the nation’s most honored playwrights and screenwriters, is best known for Streamers , the last of his Vietnam War trilogy. Streamers , which Rabe wrote in…
November 9, 2008
The latest production of Frost/Nixon, the play written by Peter Morgan about the 1977 TV interviews between Brit journalist David Frost and the recently resigned U.S. President, opens November 11 and runs until November 30…
November 5, 2008
Brian Delate (above) is among the handful of Vietnam veterans who have made a career in show biz---in his case, as an actor, and now a director. Delate, who served as a draftee infantry sergeant…