LOOKING BACK

The Playwrights' Theatre (New and Otherwise) Years

1972 - 1984

At my desk in the theatre on Church Street 1976

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To The Left Is A List of Several Stories & Flashbacks

(I will add more in time)

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PLAYWRIGHTS

an alphabetical listing of playwrights & composers served by our theater

and the names of their plays & musicals on which we labored

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MemoryThon 1

email memories from a variety of NPT vets along with pictures

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FUND RAISING

this feature "For Lack Of A Pie"

the story of two fund-raising events (a film fest & Hamlet!, the musical) 

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RHETT BUTLER

"Rhett Butler - Theatre Dog / Theatre Critic / Fund-Raising Pawn"

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Eviction?

tells the story of how religion & theater can clash over a playwrights' text

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BUY BUILDING

tells how "We (they) Buy The Building in 67 Hours - Thank You, George!"

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PHOTOS

random photos from productions and theater activities

that I will upload now and again

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During our first season, we were sternly told, “You know, you’ll always have your hat in your hands.” That came from an elderly woman named Lucy Kennedy, the frail and genteel woman who was Zelda Fichandler’s head script reader at Arena Stage … the 800 pound gorilla of Washington Theatre institutions at the time. “You’ll always have your hat in your hands,” I remember Lucy telling us. So? We wanted to do theatre. Who cared if being nonprofit meant an endless of process of fund-raising. The fundraising sometime brought more laughs than some of the plays we produced. For more on fundraising, click on "fundraising (duhg) and ake a look at "For Lack of a Pie ..."