English playwright Tom Stoppard, his plays performed more than the plays of any other dramatist of his generation – and Stoppard’s still writing – is a fascinating guy. He was a newspaperman and a drama critic before he sat down to write his first play in 1960.



I became aware of him when I saw a production of his play, “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.”



Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are minor characters in Shakespeare’s… Continue

Your community theater may be betting, as two near me are this season, that crime pays, that you and I will buy tickets and park ourselves in soft seats to see crimes committed on stage and solved.



But can we solve the crime before the detective does . . . or the amateur sleuth does?



That’s the game.



The proof that we theater goers love a mystery is right there in Agatha Chistie’s “The Mousetrap”. That stage play first hit… Continue