Entries from September 2005 ↓

Happy Anniversary to me. This blog is two years old today.

The first entry was just a test and the second was a 9/11 remembrance, but I’m a stickler for accuracy. September 1, 2003 was when it all started. It’s been fun and it continues to be interesting.

Now if you really want to help me celebrate, visit my wishlist and pick me out something nice. hehehe

Aren’t we all. And from September 20 to November 13, you’ll be up to your eyeballs in them when Second Stage Theatre presents the first major New York revival of playwright Charles Fuller’s, A Soldier’s Play.

Winner of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, this tense story about a murder investigation of a Black sargeant on a Louisiana Army base during World War II was first staged by the Negro Ensemble Company in 1981. It then starred the late Adolph Caesar as Sgt. Vernon Waters, as well as a couple of young up and comers; Denzel Washington as Private Peterson and Samuel L. Jackson as Private Louis Henson.

When the play was made into a movie in 1984, Caesar and Washington would reprise their roles, as would the late Larry Riley as Private C.J. Memphis.

This time around, the play is equally star-studded, emphasis on stud. Anthony Mackie, Taye Diggs, James McDaniel and Mike Colter, among others. It’s sure to be a play you won’t want to miss. As the saying goes, who cares if they can act?