The New Jersey Creative Arts Collaborative (NJCAC) is a non-profit organization whose goal is to inform, inspire and illuminate artists of color by sharing and broadening cultural awareness through the creation of original content and partnership opportunities with avo...

Somerset Valley Players presents Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, the chronicle of the last days of Willy Loman, a failing salesman, who cannot understand how he failed to win success and happiness. Through a series of tragic soul-searching revelations of the life...

Had to wait for the ink to dry before this was official. Now that the i's are dotted and the t's are crossed, I'm happy to announce that for the first time in over three years, AGP is returning to NYC!!! The Black Box Performing Arts Center is bringing their Shakespear...

Shakespeare's Lost Masterpiece received an NJACT Perry Award nomination for Outstanding Production of an Original Play. Congrats to Center Players of Freehold, Director Darrell Willis, Producers Bernice & Bob Szita, and Playwright Larry Americ Allen. An honor well dese...

In a span of two months, I go from allegedly having a "Lost Masterpiece" of Shakespeare's to doing two of his classics. For the second summer, Black Box Studios will present free productions of Shakespeare’s classics, this year bringing modern-day versions of Romeo & J...

About 25 years ago, Timothy Stives was at a service in a little known, out of the way cemetery in the Sourland Mountains region. Upon walking the grounds he came across two grave stones with his last name, those of Mary and Jonathan Stives. This got Timothy to do some...

So it's been established a long time ago that down time is a myth to me. Thus it should be a surprise to no one that I have already lined up my next production, the 2017 Pulitzer Prize winning play Sweat by Lynn Nottage. Not only am I honored to have a work of Ms. Nott...

So... I can do comedy. Who knew?

Okay, this was dark comedy, so it had serious overtones, but The Homeless Man in Larry Allen's Shakespeare's Lost Masterpiece was not Troy Maxson (Fences), not Sgt. Waters (A Soldier's Story), not Detective December (webseries In Our Bac...

I always feel compelled to do a post-production synopsis (I mean, why have a blog if you don't, right?), but I don't always have the words to describe my experience. What was easy after my second run of Fences was the mother of all mental blocks trying to describe Gues...

Center Players presents Shakespeare's Lost Masterpiece by Larry Americ Allen. This fierce and controversial drama is about a burnt out professor of literature who discovers that a homeless man (me) unknowingly has a never before seen manuscript that is worth millions....