If you love someone, it’s romantic to say that you’d stand outside in the cold for them, but when put to the test, he really was willing to freeze. “The thing you have to understand about this woman is that she’s only hot. She only ever gets hot. You touch her skin and you can […]
If you’re in the Fox Point neighborhood these days, you should know there’s somebody on the lookout for a new pod. “Dating was hard enough before you had to find someone worthy of inviting into your bunker.” He wasn’t looking for a boyfriend. Just someone he could let off some steam with while he waited […]
This was my first week teaching classes as an adjunct professor in playwriting. One of my students asked a question I’ve heard from a lot of other writers lately. “Should we write about the moment we’re in?” It can seem like one of those lose-lose situations when we talk so much about needing to remember […]
“I think every woman’s dated that guy. He’s– I can’t believe I dated him for as long as I did. That’s the thing. Every woman dates a guy like that, but I date them twice as long as anybody else does. That’s my problem. I don’t know when to call it. This one– He was […]
If you were driving down the street, you would have seen the people trying to help. That special kind of huddle that forms around a tragedy. A body on the ground. You would have seen the people standing around the body wondering if they could help and already knowing there was no help to give. […]
Now that we’re careening toward the one-year anniversary of all us having to learn that our faces look best when a ring of light is aimed at them, I thought it might be a good time to take stock and figure out what exactly I’ve learned and which mistakes I’ve made when it comes to […]
If you walked by the library the night of the wedding, you would have seen a woman in a bridesmaid outfit having a cigarette on the steps overlooking the bus stop. It was her sister’s wedding, and she had stepped outside to smoke, a habit she’d promised to break heading into the new year. This […]
I should start by mentioning that even writing this would normally be considered a conflict of interest. That’s because for the past nine years, I’ve run a theater company. A small one. As in, “you could fit in the back of a pick-up” small. Part of running a small theater company, in addition to producing, […]
As a theater lover, this is usually one of my favorite parts of any season. January has become the de facto time for theaters to take on some of their most ambitious projects, and normally, that means tackling a classic. While a season opener sets the tone, and the season ender assists in you going […]
If you were walking by the Hilton downtown one night a few years ago, you may have looked up at The Vig and saw two friends trying to catch up. One had moved away months before and one was going through a divorce and in need of support. The one going through the divorce felt […]