Rob Stevens – Haines His Way William Inge’s 1953 play Picnic brought the Kansan playwright his only Pulitzer Prize. Although there have been many star-studded stage productions in the decades since, Picnic is mainly remembered from its 1955 film adaptation which starred William Holden, Kim Novak and Rosalind Russell among others. Inge was a famously … Read more
Terry Morgan – Stage Raw Placing a disparate group of characters in a location they can’t leave and forcing them to deal with each other has been a tried and true source of dramatic conflict since Sartre’s No Exit. The claustrophobia and stress of interacting with new people ratchets up the tension swiftly. So it … Read more
Lovell Estell III – Stage Raw Michael Weller has a knack for writing about specific cultural time periods. In Moonchildrenhe peered into the turbulent, “hell no, we won’t go,” drug-fueled, free love 1960’s via a year in the life of a group of idealistic college students. Here, the spotlight is on the tenuous hangover days of … Read more