The director of Theatre Lawrence's current production considered giving the 26-year-old play a more contemporary look, but one thing stood in his way: a landline telephone. The ringing phone — with not even an answering machine to quiet it — plays a small but significant role in Donald Margulies’ “Collected Stories,” and director Doug Weaver just didn’t think a cellphone could be substituted and ...
Greg Martin is not a pet owner and was a tad apprehensive about dog sitting for 10 days, but he wanted to help out his little sister, who otherwise might have had to cancel an eagerly anticipated trip to Iceland. Cindy Martin and her wife, Wendi Norton, hadn’t had any luck getting reliable sitters, so when Greg agreed to come keep an eye on their 3-year-old German shepherd, Blue, it was something of a ...
Spencer Greenwood spent the tail end of his high school years “all cooped up” because of the coronavirus pandemic. That’s why when Theatre Lawrence opened up auditions for its first two shows of this season — both musicals — he leapt at the chance to try out. “After two years of sitting around the house, something super physical and full of dancing and movement was just so appealing to me,” says ...
After winning the world championship in the pentathlon in 1989, Lori Norwood finally got the dog she had always wanted — and it was way more than she had hoped for. That first dog, Sadie, an Australian shepherd, became “the love of my heart,” she said. “When I retired from sport, I’d saved up some money, and she and I traveled through the Northwest up to Alaska, and we just drove in my truck and ...
When April Dwyer drives down West Sixth Street she’s treated to a towering reminder of her late mother’s grit. The enormous pin oak on the grounds of Pinckney Elementary School, planted by her mother, Carol Francis, nearly a half-century ago is something like her mother’s backbone: It has weathered a lot of storms. Francis died six years ago at age 87, and the tree — which could easily live another 100 ...
Every day is difficult if you’ve lost a loved one to suicide, but the holiday season, with its emphasis on togetherness and communal good cheer, is well known to radically magnify the sense of loss. “Man, those dates are hard when this person was so much a part of them and they’re no longer alive to be there,” said Marcia Epstein, a longtime Lawrence resident and specialist in suicide grief support. ...