Playwright in NY

Just read online that The Action Against Sol Schumann is going to open the season for the Mennesota Jewish Theatre.  If all goes as planned, that means I'll see five different scripts get mounted in regionals this season.  (Well, I might not get to see them all.  I don't have an immediate plan to go to St. Paul, unless I'm invited.)

I have about a week to try to get things into order before heading up to Big Indian and this year's Summer Improv Retreat.  That will be followed by my pitching in a little on a performance retreat that will follow that week.  Then off to Chicago to teach at Chicago Dramatists for a weekend.  Then I'll stick around for a bit for casting and an initial workshop of Courtmartial at Ft. Devens.  This is a piece based on a true story about some black WACs who stood trial when they defied a racist colonel in 1945.  Nobody seems to know this happened.  I was stunned when I stumbled on the story.  Doesn't need any artificial boosting.  The facts presented cleanly are pretty astonishing.  Some of the material is adapted directly from the transcript of the courtmartial.

After the workshop, I get to go to Stratford, ONT to see some Shakespeare.  My friend Colm Feore is doing three leads in rep, and I look forward to seeing him be his usual brilliant self. 

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