From the Director: I’m drawn to the timeless message “without a hurt, the heart is hollow” and the humorous and tender plot which unfolds in beautiful and poetic language. And the music … guaranteed you will spend the next few days humming the melodies. Leann...
For The WordPlayers’ Staged Reading Series this year (2021), three new plays were chosen to be read from about two dozen worthy submissions. We had solicited plays with broadly defined themes of redemption and/or hope. Last night, April 12, we read the first of the...
My Film Debutby Chan Vinson My first movie performance is in the can! Principal photography was completed on Thursday, October 22 for The WordPlayers’ film of Sleepers, Wake! Since COVID-19 prevented The WordPlayers from performing their annual Advent play, they are...
Family relationships – especially inter-generational ones – can be loving, exasperating, supportive, hilarious, confusing, heart-breaking, or any combination thereof. Family provides a special tie that binds, for better or for worse. Psalm 133:1 says, “How good and...
The opening song of the second act of Bright Star includes the words, “Something tells me it’ll be alright, something tells me it’s gonna be okay.” It’s a song of hope and promise. A hope that says, even though there is darkness in the moment, it won’t last...
The first words you hear in Bright Star are Alice Murphy’s. She sings: If you knew my story You’d have a hard time Believing me, you’d think I was lying Joy and sorrow never last I’ll die trying not to live in the past The show then proceeds to tell us about her life,...
