Jacobs & Casey Have Us Dancing in Our Seats by Lynne Stevens When I was in high school a boy who took auto shop classes and was rumored to have been in “juvie” asked me to the prom. He had the requisite greased hair and cigarette packet tucked into the rolled-up sleeve of his…
Harry Davis Lifts Heavy Weight of Young Male Experience by Lynne Stevens Picture a gym in your garage. A bench press and a barrage of rock music to fuel the heavy lifting. Two young men, old friends from junior high, meet to talk about their schoolmates and what everyone is doing in their lives…
Colman Domingo’s Wild & Bumpy Journey Lifts Us Up by Lynne Stevens Hop into an Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme for a crazy trip south to Disney World, where all your dreams come true. That’s what our hero does as he struggles to do the right thing when his mother dies unexpectedly. Gil (sweet Marcus J….
Granville-Barker Speaks Truth to Power—but Who’s Listening? by Lynne Stevens “Waste” is like jumping into a snake pit. The male characters hiss and twist over their individual power and reputation. Harley Granville-Barker’s 1906 play reveals Henry Trebell (powerful Lance Gardner) and Amy O’Connell (sparkling Liz Sklar) on a summer evening after a house party….