Why not post? A few other links: Started our series Chasing the Dead: Amateur Adventures in Genealogy. That motive has hovered over me for many years now and Halloween/All Saints Day this year (or Samhain as the Celts celebrated the event) seemed a good time to start publishing in pieces my new book Chasing The Dead. After all, any method -- shy of Ouija boards and seances -- that gets me closer to that connection of my family that is gone suits me.

Luck is the residue of design as Branch Rickey wisely opined. And our co-founder, T.J. Elliott, had the good luck to plan his visit to Portland to be at the opening of Claire Elliott's show at One Grand gallery AND his grandson's magnificent Paw Patrol themed fifth birthday party just as POTUS designated that city to be a 'hellhole' in need of military intervention. His journalistic work ended up on the Jimmy Kimmel show -- go to 7:07 at this link -- and garnered 54,000 views on YouTube. Knowledge Workings is proud of this daring reporting by such an old man. Not really, but maybe next year?

Did I expect to follow in the bootsteps of famous war correspondents David Halberstam, Ernie Pyle, Ernest Hemingway, Richard Tregaskis, and Brian Williams? No, but when fate placed me in Portland Oreg...

by T.J. Elliott, Playwright If you do spot him, that's one more reason to buy a ticket to our last two BBTF performances at this link 2 Chances Left to SEE RETROSPECTIVE: CLICK HERE NOW

Jeremiah Alexander smiling because he knows how much audiences will love his portrayal of Clint Photo Bill Wadman For playwright, T.J. Elliott, and actor, Jeremiah Alexander, this collaboration stems from September of 1978. Alan Brody as the male leads in a regional production of George Bernard Shaw's The Devil's Disciple. First, they were fellow actors, then for a time roommates, and later, and always, friends as both moved to NYC to pursue careers in theater.

Jasmine Dorothy Haefner Brings So Much To All She Does click here to see JDH as Z in retrospective What forces form a fine actor? Experience. Intelligence. Discipline. Feeling. All of these but also the skill and courage to make their own path through not just each work but through 'the business', and a capacity for reflecting on each moment in the career (which sometimes careens) and constantly learning.

This is a truth for me, but only ONE truth. HT for the image Talking to one of our actors during a rehearsal for RETROSPECTIVE (opening August 13th for just three performances at AMT Theatre 354 W. 45th St. in NYC, get Tix here), the topic of persuasion arose. My characters are ALWAYS persuading someone to 'see something the way you see it', to feel or act in a different way.

Far from being a journalistic relic, as suggested by recent developments at the New York Times, arts criticism is inherently progressive, keeping art honest and pointing toward its future.

“The play does not exist in the theater as a written text until it has been absorbed in the process of  production. Drama is  ‘translated’ or transformed into the person of the acto…

"The play does not exist in the theater as a written text until it has been absorbed in the process of production. Drama is ‘translated’ or transformed into the person of the actor -- “the body of the art of the theater”, as Stark Young put it."Harold Clurman, On Directing 'The body of the art of the theater…

Adara Totino detonates delightfully as PIPPA in the new play RETROSPECTIVE in the leading comedy performance of the summer at BBTF

Next week, our cast will gather for their "etudes," as the actors dig into their characters. Edward Albee, one of the greatest English language playwrights once said that “Every good actor does two things: He does exactly what the author intended and he does it his own way.”  Etudes are a way of actors figuring out what that way is.

How can I say a movie is best without defining what 'best' looks like?

Buy your tix for RETROSPECTIVE here now! ‘Luck is the residue of design’Branch Rickey That wisdom from the man who brought Jackie Robinson to major league baseball (and also invented th…

Buy your tix for RETROSPECTIVE here now! 'Luck is the residue of design'Branch Rickey That wisdom from the man who brought Jackie Robinson to major league baseball (and also invented the batting helmet) has guided us for many years.  Rickey added to the advice later: “Good luck is whatever is left over after intelligence and effort have combined at their best.”

Sweet Spot: We — Knowledge Workings Theatre —would love to see you at one of the 3 performances of our new comedy by T.J. Elliott, RETROSPECTIVE, as part of the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival—Wednesday, August 13th at 8:00 PM, Friday, August 15th at 5:00 PM, and Saturday, August 16th at 2:00 PM. The August 15th performance features a talkback with director…

NEW SEASON, NEW PLAYS: Broadway Bound Theatre Festival -2025 hosts 12 new plays and musicals this summer at AMT Theater in midtown NYC. These new works are by emerging playwrights from across the c…

Yes, that Cornell West and that Robert George.