George Mabry caught my eye while shopping at Kroger the other morning. I congratulated him again on having APSU’s Mass Communication auditorium named for him and his beautiful wife, Sharon. I said I envied him, and his retort was, “Well, you’ve got a building named for you as well.” Before I could sort it out [...]

“For you and I have a guardian angel on high, with nothing to do but to give to you and to give to me, love forever true.” [Music and lyrics by Cole Porter, as sung by Patsy Cline] I have a great job. Not only do I get to see my own scripts brought to [...]

I knew Heidi was in trouble — not the character Heidi, nor my adaptation, but the production. My production of my play. My play was in trouble. I had allotted two hours for rehearsals with the schoolchildren playing Heidi and Clara, but it wasn’t enough. I had rehearsed Captain Louie with two-hour rehearsals over two [...]

It was sheer bliss! The summer before last, when The Sound of Music was up and running, I took Mondays off and spent the morning outside in my backyard with a pitcher of iced tea, a large steno pad and a copy of Heidi. At night during performances of The Sound of Music, between set [...]