UPCOMING & ONGOING
The biggest current news: it's time once again for Theatre UAB's annual Festival of Ten-Minute Plays! They've been letting me run this project at my alma mater for nine years now, and once again we have eight intriguing new short-short plays and a talented bunch of actors, directors, and designers. Do plan to come see this -- March 12-16 at 7:30 nightly in the Odess Theatre -- at five bucks a head it's the best entertainment deal for miles around...
 I am honored to have received a new commission from Vulcan Park and Museum to write a new show for their spring arts series. This one will be some kind of dramatic exploration of the life and/or works of novelist Walker Percy. It will be performed one night only (!) -- March 15, 2012, at Vulcan. And now you know as much about it as I do ...
 Two months later, I'll get to do THE WAR OF THE WORLDS radio show again! I love putting this show on and will do it whenever there's an audience interested in the experience. My actor buddies and I will perform the show at the Alabama Phoenix Festival (May 25-27, 2012) -- who have very kindly put a page promoting the show here -- check it out ...
 Meanwhile, the show that Theatre UAB commissioned me to write for their touring program is currently being performed all over the state. This one is called "Six Tales from Six Continents" -- a whirlwind tour of folk tales from six utterly different cultures. It has a fantastic cast and gorgeous designs by Marc Quattlebaum and Elizabeth Ayres Pollard ...
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RECENT
 On July 22 a talented group of actors and I presented a unique one-time-only performance at UAB. We called the play "Over Here," and it was, believe it or not, part of a social-psychology study conducted by my amazing lady love Dr. Karen Dill -- whose book How Fantasy Becomes Reality: Seeing Through Media Influence is one I recommend to absolutely everyone, but especially anyone trying to raise kids in contemporary American culture. The "Over Here" experiment was very much in the same vein, presenting as it did a situation in which some people perceived an abusive relationship where others did not. Fascinating!
 My play "Too Many Questions" is now being performed far and wide, to universal acclaim -- largely thanks to the fact that it stars the peerless Ginny Loggins. The play is a one-woman show that I was commissioned to write for Vulcan Park and Museum about Virginia Foster Durr. Mrs. Durr was an amazing woman and it is great fun to pretend like you're spending an hour with her at her home, listening to her tell about her extraordinary experiences as a white Southerner who dared to stand on the "colored" side of the civil rights struggle in the 1960s. Each time we've done this show, Ginny and I have both been regaled with personal stories about various people's encounters with Mrs. Durr. I wish I had known her...
 My son and I started a blog about our favorite TV series, and despite our busy-busy schedules, we do occasionally post things there! So if you're a fan of DOCTOR WHO, do please subscribe to The Krillitane Chronicle. The more people looking in, the more likely we are to keep posting ...
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