A colleague of mine once told me that bartenders in Ireland will sometimes chase customers out at closing time by pointedly asking them, “Have you no homes to go to?” The American closing-time refrain, memorialized in many a country song, is “You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here.” In Lisa D’Amour’s 2014 play Airline Highway, the […]
Archives for November 2019
Friday Staged Reading: The Mojo and The Sayso
The Mojo and the Sayso written by Aishah Rahman directed by Oroki Rice Inspired by the 1973 killing of a ten-year-old boy by New York City police, THE MOJO AND THE SAYSO is both a comic and dramatic study of the ways that people cope with the aftermath of terrible tragedy.The New York Times review says of […]
“Airline Highway” by Lisa D’Amour
Hyde Park Community Players present Airline Highway by Lisa D’Amour directed by Leslie Halverson (Director of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot and Twelfth Night) November 15-17 & 22-24 Fridays & Saturdays, 7:30 p.m. Sundays, 2:00 p.m. matinee At University Church 5655 S. University Avenue The first mainstage production of our 2019-20 season, our fall […]