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I’ve come to be generally suspicious of deconstructions and hot takes. Yes, they’re kind of entertaining in a way, looking at something from a different angle, but they often just go too dark. And I do appreciate when people go purposefully light and funny with deconstructions, like the one I…

Because I haven’t been doing enough theatre this season, I’m back at it, this time stage managing The Cemetery Club at Village Players of Birmingham. Happily for my sanity, I’m actually co-stage managing the show with my friend Justine, who was our stage manager on Romeo & Juliet. She figured…

One of the strange things I’ve had to do lately has been to actually do thank you notes to booksellers and other such folks. Some of these, I’m told, are headed out of the country, but who knows where the others may end up? These started out with my co-author,…