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ARTS + ENTERTAINMENT THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 2018
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Act ‘Before Steepletop’ is the latest work by a local playwright who didn’t find his talent until retirement.
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Ren Pearson plays wannabe poet Sheldon and Johana Davila plays the famous Edna St. Vincent Millay.
good playwright doesn’t just create characters. A good playwright hangs out with them. “They’re alive in my head,” says playwright Arthur Keyser. “I don’t get bored with rewriting because I love visiting my characters.” Keyser, 89, was the winner of the 2017 Players New Play Festival, which earned him the chance to produce his new work this summer at The Players Centre For Performing Arts. The play, “Before Steepletop,” is a historical fiction piece about Pulitzer Prize winner Edna St. Vincent Millay’s young adult years spent in New York City’s Greenwich Village. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
‘Turn of the Screw’
Dog Days Theatre closes its 2018 season with an updated take on Henry James’ ghost story. PAGE 7
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