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Raising awareness of POTS

Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) is more common in the US than MS and yet it’s not a well-known disorder. Hoping this story I wrote for “The Philadelphia Inquirer” changes that. Here’s the top of the story: It’s easy to…

Global Guides at the Penn Museum

Penn Museum has always been fascinating and cool and it just got cooler with its new Global Guides program, which has natives of Iraq and Syria serving as guides. I wrote about it for the Associated Press. Read the story…

Moliere’s “Tartuffe”

Vivian Reed was a lovely interview. She is one of the stars of this stage production of “Tartuffe. Here’s the lede: Broadway actor/singer Vivian Reed often chooses projects based on the part she’ll play, both the roles that suit her…

Baseball takes the stage

Hoboken brags it’s the birthplace of baseball and Frank Sinatra. I’m a fan of both, and will one day attend this annual event featuring 7 10-minute plays with a baseball theme. The lede, in which I casually drop the word…

At the crossroads with Crossroads

Here’s my recent story about Crossroads Theatre. The lede: Keeping a regional theater afloat is challenging in the best of times. Doing so for four decades — through economic downturns, and social and cultural changes –is even more difficult. Now,…

Three cool/Kool dudes

No one knows how a story will begin before they actually write it. I mean, anyone could go with the straight lede — “THISPERSON will perform at THISPLACE on THISDATE,” but most of us try a bit harder than that.…