Plays

'The Steadfast' : A Multi-War Play in NYC

January 26, 2013

  The limited-run play, "The Steadfast, " which is on view at the TGB Theater in New York City through February 3, is based on a painting called "Legacy" by Steve Alpert. The painting depicts…

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'The Long Way Home': A New 'Tracers' Theater Experience

November 1, 2012

The Vietnam War play "Tracers" was created by a group of Vietnam veterans in Los Angeles in 1980. The play---a collage of interrelated scenes that follows the lives of a group of infantrymen from basic training through…

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Brian Delate's 'Memorial Day'

September 26, 2012

Brian Delate is an actor,  playwright, and director who served as a draftee infantry sergeant in the Vietnam War. His play, Memorial Day , centers on a Vietnam veteran on the verge of suicide during…

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Pat Sajak as Oscar Madison

July 2, 2012

Pat Sajak, the famed long-time host of "Wheel of Fortune" who served a tour of duty in Vietnam during the war as a radio deejay with AFVN, occasionally steps out from the "Wheel" set to…

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New Broadway Play With a Strong Vietnam War Theme

April 24, 2012

  It's not every day that a play with a strong Vietnam War theme opens on Broadway. One of those days is tomorrow, Wednesday, April 25, when the drama "The Columnist , " written by…

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Bronze Star: New Drama at Citrus College in Calif.

November 7, 2011

Citrus College history professor Bruce Solheim's new play, “Bronze Star, ” based on the life of his friend, Vietnam veteran Carl Ferguson, an Army draftee who received a Bronze Star and who committed suicide in…

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Veterans Theatre Project at Citrus College

June 14, 2011

Citrus College history professor Bruce Solheim has written a new play, "Bronze Star, " based on the life of his friend, Vietnam veteran Carl Ferguson, an Army draftee who received a Bronze Star and who…

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'A Time to Kill' – the Play

May 2, 2011

What's being bill as the "Pre-Broadway World Premiere" of the play, "A Time To Kill, " based on John Grisham’s  first novel, begins May 6 at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C . Adopted for the…

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Glory Denied: The Opera

November 19, 2010

Back in 2001 newspaper columnist Tom Philpott wrote a compelling book called Glory Denied: The Saga of Jim Thompson, America's Longest-Held Prisoner of War, the amazing, true story of Col. Floyd James "Jim" Thompson. The…

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A Piece of My Heart in Raleigh, N.C.

October 22, 2010

The University Theatre at North Carolina State University in Raleigh is presenting six  performances of the powerful Shirley Lauro play, A Piece of My Heart , which tells the stories of six women who served…

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