Peculiar Journeys

The Season Four opener starts the journey in the park!

In April 2017, Don was hired to be the Front of House Manager for Millennium Park in Chicago. With interviews from a number of his staff of ushers and stories of working the largest concert venue in Chicago, these stories are one-of-a-kind!

This is it — the final tattoo, the final story, the final episode of the third season. It's an Ape on a stack of books contemplating death, life, and the human experience.

As the nineties close out, WNEP Theater created two iconic shows that catapulted the company into the new millennium — one that challenged the tropes of improvisation and the other so huge and bloated it polarized the critics.

The 49th Year of my life was AWESOME! The result was an examination of my choices and, as I parsed them out, I became convinced that it all boils down to the path we choose.

1998 began the artistic reign of Jen Ellison and she kicked it off with two plays — one pre-published, the other devised by a team of writers based on a Chris Van Allsburg children's book. The success of the second solidified the next decade of shows for WNEP Theater.

In 2014 I met the Love of My Life, my Soulmate and the person who brings the best I can be out in the open. My tattoo for 2015 is a line of her poetry.

In the continuing saga of an Off Loop theater in the Nineties, WNEP gets a new Artistic Director and her new direction bears some fruit and some flies.

As the journey continues from theater to storytelling, the decades of telling stories on stages bears a single revelation. We are all just stories in the end.

Summer of 1997 came the first ever WNEP Theater musical, The Wicked and The Sexed, based on a 1960's porn novel.

"This is Water" is my sixth tattoo and in the continued exploration of what was going on with me that motivated each one, the stories behind them, it is significant that the first five were reactionary to circumstances in my life but that the next five were forward looking as lessons I needed to keep in mind — phrases that defined who I wanted to be rather than who I was.