Fiction Writer, Poet, Playwright, Educator, Memoir Writer and Literary Critic
Modern Times (1936) is a funny comedy; however, this silent film presents a very serious socialist critique of twentieth-century society. Chaplin portrays a factory worker on an assembly line that his tight-fisted employer keeps accelerating beyond the laborer’s capacity to…
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The Metropolitan Opera’s 2017 production of Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata (The Fallen Woman) broadcast on PBS’s Great Performances on August 25, 2017 features spectacular singers. Sonya Yoncheva as Violetta Valéry, Michael Fabiano as her lover Alfredo Germont, and Thomas Hampson…
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Here is the Chicago Tribune‘s Review of the Tritonysia Play Festival and my short play Pledging. This is the first performance of Pledging. “‘Tritonysia’ play festival offers mix of serious, humorous work,” posted May 8, 2017 by Rachel K. Hindery…
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