Happy Sunday!

Life is super busy lately, seems that way for a lot of folks I know too. I hope everyone is doing okay. Still, there are a lot of things to celebrate, so I’m listing them to remind myself!

Yesterday the Detroit Tigers pitched the 9th no-hitter in team history!! Yes, they’re still in third place in the worst division in the league, but they’ve at least been playing entertaining baseball a lot of the season and yesterday was a very cool special thing!

We start preview performances for the beautiful, funny Be Here Now by Deborah Zoe Laufer at Williamston Theatre next week. The tech weekend has been terrific: director Rob Roznowski and the entire cast and production team are knocking it out of the park – it’s a terrifically entertaining piece! Get your tickets soon, this one is fun and will sell quick: https://www.williamstontheatre.org/shows/2022-2023/be-here-now

In other news, I’m directing a play in Ann Arbor, for the Penny Seats Theatre Company. Return To The Forbidden Planet is a fabulously silly musical, a combo of science fiction, Shakespeare and pop hits from the 50’s and 60’s! (I mean, if YOUR spaceship was hit by an asteroid storm, wouldn’t YOU sing Great Balls Of Fire?!). Opening August 3rd, it’s performed outdoors in Burns Park and it’s a perfect piece of outdoor summer theatre! I’m having a great time working with the team putting together this bit of toe-tapping ridiculousness – come out and have fun with us, and see how many sci-fi ”Easter eggs” you can spot!

I got to visit the Grand Canyon!! Holy cow. My first time, some friends and I went for a couple days. Amazing. Humbling. Terrifying, because that’s a long way down and no railings!

Have a good Sunday everyone! Celebrate something!