In Memory of Jewel Thais-Williams

I love it when I get to share good news.

Mario Ernesto Sánchez, 1947-2025

I have an image of Kirk Wilson, and we would laugh about it every time I saw him.

Even as she progresses deeper into the Forgetting Condition, Mrs.

Today is Morgan Jenness Day, with a series of events all day and into the evening in New York City at some of the most important sites associated with our friend.

On March 8th, the great South African playwright, novelist, actor and director, Athol Fugard, was called back.

I am not sure any birthday tribute will do justice in giving praise to one of the most essential artists in the Latine community and reflect the power in the body of work this master writer has amasse...

An Essay on Letting Go

A few weeks ago, I had the great pleasure of sitting with a longtime friend of mine, the great writer, Sandra Cisneros.

Ron Sossi, the founder of the Odyssey Theater Ensemble, which he led through its fifty-six-year history, has been called back.

If only you knew the near heart attack I was experiencing when I saw this bill.

I recently had the pleasure of setting up the Zoom studio, putting on a clean shirt, and merging onto the online highway for a beautiful and heartfelt conversation at George Mason University out in Fa...

Yesterday, I met a lovely theatre director, Katie Lindsay, for an interview as part of a podcast she is doing about the Music Center Plaza downtown.

In homage to the Vine American Party Store on Melrose Avenue in Hollywood, which has closed its doors after 90 years in business, I am wearing one of the many day & evening wear mustaches I bought the...

Congratulations to veteran theatre and film director, Jose Luis Valenzuela, who has been awarded the 2024 Gordon Davidson Award from the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation.

Spending the weekend with one’s mother, doesn’t always yield the reward one might imagine, but the lesson is always immeasurable.

Los Angeles is enjoying such wonderful theatre right now.

I must be in some state of denial because it’s been a month since the artist and filmmaker David Lynch was called back and I am just getting around to thinking of the enormity of his effect on me.

There are people who sync up in our lives, not for long sometimes, but for key moments on our journey.

It takes a certain resilience to deal with being in your late eighties and keep up with a changing world, especially while you’re slowly transforming as well.

The great English singer and actor, Marianne Faithfull, was called back yesterday and I feel like I lost a friend.

Grief is an extraordinary motivator.