What?! I’ve never told you about being on Oprah?! Well, it all started when my friend Mim was asked to be on the show. I met Mim when we were both dopey college students — we were on the same study abroad program in Austria. Now Mim is Dr. Miriam E. Nelson, author of the […]

Mike and I were invited to stay for the “opening night toast” after Sunday’s performance of Wait Until Dark. We accepted the invitation, of course! I felt like a star, celebrating with cast members. But just like after the rehearsals, I found the experience somewhat bittersweet. This was a more standard type of letdown, though. […]

If you’ve read my past couple of posts, you know that I am, ahem, a technical consultant for the upcoming production of Wait Until Dark at the Court Theatre in Chicago. The stage is set up for previews now, and last Tuesday stage management invited me to come and check it out. Emjoy, the actress […]

I’d been sound asleep in our Milwaukee hotel last month when I heard someone trying to get in our room. The key card went in the slot, then out. In, then out again. If I hadn’t just visited the Wait Until Dark cast at Court Theatre in Chicago the day before — and told the […]

Emjoy Gavino is coming over today. You might remember Emjoy from that post I wrote about the upcoming production of Wait Until Dark at Court Theatre in Chicago. Emjoy has the Audrey Hepburn (Susy) role — she’ll play a newly-blind woman in the play. I can get a little nervous when I know people are going […]