Plays
‘Ashes are Ashes,’ a Play by Mike Thompson
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…
‘Peace on Earth,’ Award-Winning WWI play by VVA Member Kurt Hyde
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…
‘Children of the April Rain’ Play Reading, Nov. 8, in New York
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…
Vietnam War Play Staged Reading in N.J. June 15
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,…
‘The Caregiver’s Journey’ November 18 in Garden City, N.Y.
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…
Tee Shirt Fundraiser for VVA
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…
David Berry, 1943-2016
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…
‘Children of the April Rain’, Operation Babylift Play, on Veterans Day
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…
Operation Babylift Play ‘Children of the April Rain’ in East Williston, New York
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…
‘War(ped), ‘ a New Play by Patrick Underwood
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…