Tboy's Atlanta-based co-conspirator Curt Holman (we met two years ago on an NEA fellowship, from which a listserv Mafia survives) has a profile of D.C.'s own Ari Roth in the new Creative Loafing.
Turns out one of the theaters down thar whar Tboy grew up (OK, he was closer to Augusta, but still) is producing Ari's play Born Guilty and its quasi-sequel, Peter and the Wolf, in rep; both of the plays have been staged here at Theater J.
Best line is this one, about how the guy Ari imagined in the first play turned out, in the real world, to be rather different:
I created a protagonist who would seem to be the second coming of George Clooney -- he's an attractive go-getter who's comfortable with liberal college students. At the beginning of Peter and the Wolf (and Me) you realize that, no, he's more like Ron Silver. He was always a conservative journalist.
Read all about it here, and then more here, in the Atlanta Jewish Times ...
Nice to know that news of Ari's Atlanta production has gotten around!
Rebecca Z, Theater J
Posted by: Rebeccaz | Thursday, 25 January 2007 at 11:35