Tag: Bill Rauch

Being the copilot means more legroom.

In "All the Way," Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan ("Handler," "By the Waters of Babylon") turns his gaze to Lyndon Baines Johnson from his ascendancy to the presidency through the passage of the Civil Rights Act and his victory in the 1964 presidential election.

Four decades ago, the Black Panthers and Puerto Rican Young Lords were young activists providing food and health care in their impoverished communities while in a desperate struggle to survive the systematic dismantling of their movements. Now they are 60-somethings untangling a traumatic past and an unclear future. In ensemble, OSF actors and UNIVERSES toggle between then and now in this meticulously researched, compelling work of fiction.

He gave me a demonstration of how a longbowman could, in the absence of his namesake weapon, slam a blunt dagger through a visor into the bridge of the enemy’s nose, hammering it in, and severing the nervous system of the now very-dead foe.

And if that wasn’t enough I thought I’d just give the bow string a pull while he turned the other way, and the draw-weight of over 70 lbs (half the draw-weight of an actual medieval bow) nearly ripped the tendons from my back.

Well just in time for the New Year, I have Gregory Linington’s interview for The Pen and the Powder Keg. We Tufts are known for promptness.