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“Go Irish” Playbill

Playbill from the June 2009 production of Go Irish: The Purgatory Diaries of Jason Miller at the Actor’s Circle Providence Playhouse in Scranton, PA. That’s Jason himself on the cover of the playbill, naturally. (Click image to enlarge)

James Joyce On My Mind

Two shafts of soft daylight fell across the flagged floor from the high barbicans, and at the meeting of their rays a cloud of coalsmoke and fumes of fried grease floated, turning. Aside from the fact that we have a James Joyce finger puppet clinging to our refrigerator door (purchased through the Unemployed Philosophers Guild) [...]

“Go Irish” Soldiers On

Actor Bob Hughes and my writing partner Tom Flannery continue getting our play, Go Irish: The Purgatory Diaries of Jason Miller, staged at venues throughout the east coast. This evening I learned about a one-night performance on March 15 of this year at the South Camden Theatre Company in South Camden, New Jersey (that’s their [...]

More Ink for “Go Irish”

This time from the Philly Burbs: Fast forward more than 40 years later, with Miller having returned home to Scranton, a fallen star, his career imploded, his life derailed by drugs and alcohol and flagrant womanizing. Hughes, who remained an intermittent presence in his life during his successful years in Hollywood and New York, runs [...]