Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
I’ve written before about Appleton North’s theatre director Ron Parker and his universal impact on our family. Each of my four adult children cite Mr. Parker’s profound influence on their lives. He taught them to be brave; to make magic from the mundane; to honor a commitment; to recognize a problem, give it a good [...]
Time means nothing in a dark theater anyway. That curtains rises and off you go to Paris in the 19th century, Salzburg in 1938, or Saigon in the 1970s. I've been to all of those places, courtesy of the Appleton North Theatre Program. Last night, I sat in that magical theater and drifted away to [...]
With admiration, appreciation and intentional definition we salute theatre moms, women who support drama without creating it.The distinction between our beloved drama mamas and the appropriately maligned stage mom lies in a single word: intent. Theatre moms cheerfully volunteer to sew costumes, paint sets, serve meals, organize calendars, sell concessions, manage tickets, layout programs and [...]
For more than a decade our family has been living under the spell of a gifted theater director. The inexhaustible Ron Parker, whose Appleton North Theater Program recently was named the No. 1 high school theater program in the Midwest, consistently amazes us. In retrospect, our initial astonishment seems humble. We attended North's 2002 production of [...]