I’m a word lover. A lover of words. A, “logophile.” I’m not claiming to KNOW a lot of words, but I love hearing them, which is why I’m HAPPILY STUNNED and DELIGHTED with the new play at Theatre 98, “On the Verge — or the Geography of Yearning,” written by Eric Overmyer and directed by […]
The play that almost wasn’t — The Glass Menagerie
It had been years since I’d heard the tragic words of Tennessee William’s The Glass Menagerie, or had I ever heard them? I know I read them in high school, and maybe there was perhaps a movie version? No matter how I’d known the play before, Theatre 98 invited me to look in on […]
Theatre 98- This Day and Age
I think acting is fun, as long as I can improvise and don’t have to work on memorizing all those fussy lines. So I guess it’s a good thing I didn’t audition for a role in Fairhope‘s local Theatre 98’s new production of “This Day and Age,” because the dialog-rich play had lines flying back […]
The Music Man
Even though it’s a blurry photo from the 1920’s, you can see these early Fairhopers (yes, that’s correct. Not Fairhopians or Fairhopites) performing a bit of Shakespeare in one of the gullies which formed a natural amphitheater. These performances were also held high atop the bluff, overlooking Mobile Bay. If only those early actors […]