Imagine a robot that is an exact replica of you with the potential to outlive you by 200 years.  That is the premise explored by playwright Thomas Gibbons in his new play, “Uncanny Valley.”  The current Capital Stage production, deftly directed by Producing Artistic Director Jonathan Williams, is the fourth rolling world premiere of the […]

I am now in my thirty-fifth year of being a father.  And I had a father of my own for sixty years.  So, if nothing else qualifies me to talk on the subject of father-son relationships, I suppose the sum of those ninety-five years can’t be completely discounted. Literature is replete with the complexities of […]

When Alan Jay Lerner (book and lyrics) and Frederick Loewe (music) teamed up to turn George Bernard Shaw’s “Pygmalion” into a musical, they added their own genius to the playwright’s.  The result was a musical for all time that grew even more illustrious when it was made into a movie.  The film, one of the […]

Kansas has received the most news coverage for the catastrophic shortfall of revenues its massive tax cuts (promulgated by the state’s conservative governor when he took office three years ago) have created.  At first, the crisis seemed to be limited to that one state, which would have been bad enough, as Kansas public schools were […]