Max Bialystock is a washed-up Broadway producer who is, how to put it, morally fluid. After his latest musical closes almost before the opening night curtain g...
You Can’t Take It With You opens at the Mid Ohio Valley Players
Martin Vanderhof is the patriarch of a family that could be best described as eccentric. Onc...
A Few Good Men, a drama centering around the trial of two Marines who have been accused of murdering a fellow Marine while stationed at the infamous Guantanamo Bay installation in Cuba, opens this Friday at The Actors Guild of Parkersburg. The story...
Being raised by a single father has always been challenging. Though it may seem to make things easier, often being wealthy simply adds complications. Add to th...
The danger of recreating a classic is the possibility of the audience making comparisons between the original and the new version. But the upside is that, for ...
Percy Talbot is a girl with way more than her share of a past for someone who is only 21 years old. Just freed from a five-year prison sentence for a crime not immediately revealed, she gambles her future on a wide spot in the road named Geliead for...
Certain holiday tales have become an indelible part of our culture and so much a symbol of the season it’s almost not Christmas in many folks’ minds unless the...
The death of a longtime friend can cause us to reflect on our lives and remind us of the importance of choosing not to put off our dreams for someday. This is ...
When Sierra Cox, a graduate of the United States Naval Academy originally from Parkersburg, finished her tour of duty in which she’d been a surface warfare officer stationed out of San Diego, she followed her partner, fellow Naval officer John Penna...
One of the big reasons people give for either not wanting to move to the Mid-Ohio Valley or for yearning to move away as soon as they get out of school is ther...
Joe Stephens is the author of The Shalan Adventures, starring Harry and Dee Shalan. While he's not writing stories of daring-do, he's an award-winning high school English teacher. He's also a big fan of anything nerd, especially superhero.
