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Tonight at 7:00 PM at the Lucy Stern Theater in Palo Alto, as part of the TheatreWorks NFW 2025, New Works Festival, theatre-goers will get a sneak peek at some early scenes of Motion/CAPTURE. This is my latest collaboration with Portugal’s Mala Voadora theater company.

I will be in Palo Alto from July 24-30, to workshop my newest play, Motion/CAPTURE during the TheatreWorks New Works Festival at the Lucy Stern Theater. This will be a collaboration with the esteemed Portuguese company, Mala Voadora, and Peacedale Global Arts. A brief sample of our new work will be shown publicly, one night only, on July 29th. During the Festival, our previous collaboration, OLD COCK, will give four performances, on July 25-28. Tickets and information can be reached here.

Just finished a five day workshop in NYC, curtesy of my commissioning theater, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Artistic Director, Quin Gresham. Directed by Tiffany Nichole Greene; Dramaturgy by Tom Bryant; Lisa Stafford Stage Manager. The cast included the following: Stanley Andrew Jackson, Eunice Woods, Matt Lytle, Scott Wakefield, Christopher Gerson, Grant Chapman, Christopher B. Portley, Jay Russell, and William Oliver Watkins. Got a tremendous amount of work done on the text! Next stop: full production at Alabama Shakespeare Festival in Montgomery, Alabama, opening April 24th.

There are many reasons to go see the production of “Bob & Jean, A Love Story,” now playing at the Bay Street Theater. The new play by Robert Schenkkan (who attended this performance) opened to a standing ovation this past weekend and will run until June 15th. It is the first show of Bay Street Theater’s 2025 MainStage season. This production of “Bob & Jean” is a triumph. The crowd stood and applauded this “love story” celebration because they felt something special was happening on stage—something magical that marks the birth of a successful new play.

Bay Street Theater officially kicked off its summer season on May 31 in Sag Harbor with Bob & Jean: A Love Story, playwright Robert Schenkkan’s unabashedly romantic homage to his parents. As its title makes clear, this is every inch a love story. But don’t be misled. Yes, it’s light and airy, but it’s in no way insubstantial; it’s optimistic but not naive; elegiac but not maudlin, old-school but not old-fashioned.

I was fortunate enough to attend opening night of “Bob & Jean: A Love Story” at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor on Saturday, and I’m so glad I did.

It’s a tragic fact of life. As children, we take our parents — and their stories — for granted. We don’t ask questions, nor do we listen attentively when they talk about how things were “back in their day.”
After all, we have places to go and friends to see. but then we grow up.

HEART OF EAST END WLIW.ORG/RADIO

Lovely interview with Gianna Volpe about Bob Schenkkan defending PBS and, of course, BOB & JEAN, A Love Story!https://www.wliw.org/radio/captivate-podcast/may-27th-2025-robert-schenkkan/

Recently appeared on WKBG 92.FM as part of their “Lunch on the Deck” show, in which I pick twenty songs that my hosts and I then discuss. Here then, are twenty of my favorite love songs and commentary on Bob & Jean, A Love Story. Enjoy!