The Absurd Hero

Whenever I think about my choice to be an actor, I think about Camus. I’ve mentioned Frenchy McFrencherton before in this context, and you can blame my Freshman year reading list for that. But mere hours before The Man Who Was Thursday explodes into the world, I’m finding my Froggy friend has a special resonance. [...]

A Vital Arrogance (Reprint)

Note: This essay was originally published in 1990 by the Chicago Public Library in a collection called Resetting the Stage: Theater Beyond the Loop 1960-1990. The publication was part of a larger exhibition of the Chicago Theater Collection (part of the Special Collections of the CPL) curated by Scott Fosdick. Originally intended to be published [...]

A Word on the Theatre Summit

I am not going to go head-to-head with Don Hall – this is a sparring match I would lose. I don’t chalk it up to any less passion in my beliefs – it probably has something to do with the sanguine, eat-up-and-laugh-it-out nature of my Italian and Polish Ohio upbringing – which doesn’t really serve [...]