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…
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,…
November 1, 2018
Lana Noone, who for many years has run the Vietnam War Operation Babylift website, will be doing a talk (with music) about a new play she co-wrote called "The Caregiver's Journey" at the Garden City…
December 1, 2017
Former Marine Cpl. Ron Irwin is working on a play entitled, “51-50: The Play - One Man's Story About the Vietnam War.” It is “meant to be mainly dark comedy, but also reveals some insight…
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…
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…