Opening a Curtain

After over 12 years of readings, workshops and thousands of miles back and forth to NY my play "Tennessee's Final Curtain" opens tonight. To fully describe the process of birthing a new play is to list the many people and places that have aided in its development. To discuss the writing of a play is to take you into a far lonelier place...a place filled with visions and voices and inspirations that allow a playwright to bring a new play to the page. My writer friends have all shared in the solemnity of that moment. The moment you finish. Writing the words "The End" mean two much different things...the end of the solitary process of writing and the beginning of the new life a play takes and...the ultimate joy of watching your play stand on its own feet as "Curtain" will do tonight. I hope to see you over the next three weeks as Tennessee Williams grapples with his own ghost and demons, brought to you to help us all understand the loneliness of this incredible writer. After all of these years its funny to see my own ghosts interact with the ghosts of others....all happening as one of the greatest writers in the past 100 years rises again to life. I hope you'll join me on this journey. It's been quite a ride up to now.