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…
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…
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,…
June 7, 2018
That's right: A new musical called '68 that looks a the tumultuous 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, opens next month. A production of the New York Music Festival, the musical is the work of…
March 29, 2017
The bombastic hit musical Miss Saigon--a Vietnam War story centering on a GI and a bar girl loosely based on Puccini's Madame Butterfly--reopened on Broadway last week for the first time since 2001. The Cameron…
November 7, 2016
The latest staged reading of the moving play, "Children of the April Rain, " which focuses on the 1975 Vietnam War Babylift, will be presented on Veterans Day, November 11, at 1:00 p.m. at the…
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…
June 11, 2016
The latest staged reading of the play “Children of the April Rain , ” which deals with nine Americans who worked to save orphaned Vietnamese children during Operation Babylift in 1975, was performed recently in…
April 22, 2016
A staged reading of the play "Children of the April Rain, " which is based on the true stories of nine people who took part in Operation Baby Lift in April of 1975, will be…
September 9, 2015
"The Draft, " a new multimedia play dealing with the Vietnam War and how ten young men respond to their greetings from Uncle Sam, opens at Hiberian Hall in Roxbury, Massachusetts, tomorrow, September 10. The show…