American Theatre magazine has featured my photo taken last fall in the studio of Timothy Greenfield-Sanders in the February issue. Here is the link to the story about Marcus Gardley http://www.tcg.org/publications/at/issue/featuredstory.cfm?story=3&indexID=41 young playwright making his mark in the world. I liked Marcus immediately and find his plays accessible, and wish I could go to one of the three world premieres running right now. Black Odyssey at Denver Center Theatre Company (through Feb. 16). It takes Homer’s epic and recasts it as the contemporary story of a black soldier returning from Afghanistan. California’s Berkeley Repertory Theatre (in a co-production with Connecticut’s Yale Repertory Theatre) presents The House that will not Stand (through March 16), which takes the bones of Federico Garcia Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba and reanimates them in a home filled with “free women of color” in New Orleans, post–Louisiana Purchase and pre–Civil War.
In our small world of Columbus, North Carolina this is the way it was and is as snow falls again today. It will continue, the weather service says, for most of today.
