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Home Games

Main character batty in ABET's 'Home Games'

THE BEACHES LEADER | March 12, 2010 By JOHNNY WOODHOUSE, Associate Editor Note: Article appeared in print edition only

Tom Ziegler grew up a few miles from Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs since 1916. As a kid, he often accompanied his grandfather to baseball games at the historic ball park, known for its hand-turned scoreboard and its ivy-covered outfield walls. "I've always been passionate about baseball," Ziegler said this week in a phone interview. "My grandpa had box seats near the Cubs dugout. I remember paying 75 cents for bleacher seats in the 1940s and '50s." A retired theater professor now living in the Virgin Islands, Ziegler is currently working on a screenplay about baseball based on his 1985 play, "Home Games." The romantic comedy about a single… | READ MORE...
Ghosts
THE BEACHES LEADER | January 2010

Serious drama in dead of winter

"It is strange how history repeats itself in different forms like variations on a musical theme." -- Henrik Ibsen in an 1866 letter to John Grieg By JOHNNY WOODHOUSE ASSOCIATE EDITOR

There's nothing like a good dose of serious stage drama in the dead of winter. And "Ghosts," Henrik Ibsen's psychological masterpiece, fits the mid-January bill.

The powerful three-act play opens at 8 pm today at the Atlantic Beach Experimental Theatre, 716 Ocean Blvd. Tickets are $15 and $12 for students, seniors and military.

Set in a coastal town of Norway in the late 1880's on a dreary night with a somber fiord landscape serving as its backdrop, "Ghosts" is a classic tale of past transgressions coming back to… | READ MORE...