Making “Talking with My Dad.” It started with life events

October 21, 2014.Reading time 2 minutes.

The genesis of what you’ll see when you come to watch a performance of Talking with My Dad goes back to a warm March day in 1986. On that Easter Sunday so long ago, my father died of a heart attack while visiting my suburban Chicago home for Easter Sunday. The shock of losing a […]

Why I wrote “Talking with My Dad”

October 18, 2014.Reading time 2 minutes.

I’ve long planned to write several plays about my life, from my youth in New York, to my days living here in the Chicago area. But Talking with My Dad was not originally among those I planned. Two years ago, though, life intervened. I had severe chest pains that summer for several days and eventually […]

Tickets are on sale for our six November shows

August 17, 2014.Reading time 2 minutes.

Tickets are now on sale for the six performances planned for the Evanston 2nd Act Players’ new production, Talking with my Dad, the story of a man facing death while haunted by the memories of his past. Buy your tickets now before we sell out, as we did for all performances of our 2013 production, […]