YOUR GUIDE TO STORYTELLING

American Legacy Theatre  | Staged Reading | November 2025 The Plot At its heart,  Clos(in)g  is about community—one building, many lives, and the fragile balance between belonging and displacement. The play opens on the heels of Miss Angela’s funeral, the “heart of the building,” whose passing leaves a void among the residents who called her family. Through Brandy’s grocery dream, George’s grief, and the everyday rhythms of the tenants, playwright  Megan Benjamin Bennett  dra

The production nails the period look but can’t quite summon Coward’s quicksilver wit. A Ghostly Comedy of Manners Noël Coward’s  Blithe Spirit  is an “improbable farce” first staged in 1941 that became an instant success on both sides of the Atlantic. The story follows novelist Charles Condomine, who invites the eccentric medium Madame Arcati to conduct a séance for research on his next book. The experiment backfires spectacularly when the ghost of Charles’s first wife, Elvir

What Joshua Roman and MUSE Storytelling Taught Me About Creative Recovery By Shawn Maus There’s a phrase I’ve been hearing a lot lately — creative burnout. It ’s that quiet, invisible exhaustion that sneaks up on artists, writers, musicians — even people who don’t think of themselves as creative. It’s not laziness, and it’s not lack of talent. It’s what happens when the joy that once fueled your work starts flickering out. Recently, I listened to an NPR interview with cellist