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…
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…
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…
October 7, 2015
Vietnam Babylift, the nonprofit dedicated to honoring Operation Babylift- the massive evacuation of children from South Vietnam in the waning days of the Vietnam War in April 1975- is sponsoring a staged reading of the…
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…
July 15, 2015
A new theater piece called "Occupied Territories" recently had a limited run at the Anacostia Playhouse in Washington, D.C. The play, written by Nancy Bannon and its director Mollye Maxner, is set in Vietnam during…