Above: Bess, Harry, and Margaret Truman
Today, the daughter of President Harry Truman, Margaret Truman passed away. I am most familiar with Margaret’s best selling novels, many of which I have read and enjoyed. They are all murder mystery stories, set in the Washington, D.C. area. If you’ve never read a Margaret Truman book, [...]
Truman Dies at 83
And then you act.
And Then You Act: Making Art in and Unpredictable World by Anne Bogart is a great book for theatrical directors. While some of her ideas I don’t fully agree with, many of them I do and I think all directors can identify with many of the topics she discusses. Bogart has many great [...]
Check It Out
I went to local library today to check out a few books. I was reading through the check-out policies and I noticed that the minimum number of days you could check out a book was 21 days. There was, however, no limit on how many books you could check out at any given [...]
Read On -
My life is full of reading now-a-days. In a given week, I will read anywhere from 2-5 full length plays, numerous play commentary, at least 5 chapters of a current directing or theatre books, as well as personal reading material. My current reading list:
Book: And then You Act, Making Art in an [...]
Eugene O’Neill
Next Monday I am giving a seminar on playwright Eugene O’Neill for my Modern Theatre class at OU. I have read several O’Neill plays, and enjoyed everyone of them, with the exception of Long Day’s Journey Into Night. I hesitate to admit this since that play won O’Neill a Pulitzer. I simply [...]
My Latest Read
I am currently finsihing up “Rabbit Hole” the 2007 Pulitzer Prize winning play written by David Lindsay-Abaire. The play includes five characters and is a true slice of life drama that encompasses realism at it’s finest. The conflict of the play is deep-rooted within the characters, which makes for great theatre. One of the [...]
Murder at the Opera
One of my favorite authors is the daughter of former U.S. President Harry Truman. Margaret Truman lived in the White House during her father’s tenure as President, and brings a unique perspective to fiction writing. All of her books, set in Washington D.C., take readers on an intelligent and mysterious journey as we [...]
Kite Runner Review
I found The Kite Runner to be a very dark, disturbing story –yet heart-warming, humorous, and clever. This novel put to rest some of my ignorance about the Afghani people, the Taliban, and the effects they have on hard-working, sensitive, loving, family-oriented people. My view of the world is skewed by the [...]
