The action begins when the Finn character, Gordon Schwinn (Marcelo Pereira), a talented but sarcastic composer, is facing the usual kind of writer’s block. He’s stuck meeting a deadline writing what he feels is inferior material for a tyrannical, exasperating children’s entertainer, Mr.

Buoyed by continuing successes, he started his own outfit, Not Another Theater Company, 18 months ago, doing smaller-scale works as dinner theater items at the Locker Room’s Fire and Ice Banquet Hall, 528 Hiawatha Blvd. Taking on a co-producer, Bill Brod, publisher of The New Times.

Lobel (1933-1987), a prolific children’s author, published four Frog and Toad books, beginning in 1970. They’re “easy readers,” often assigned in the first and second grades.

(Currently Active) Rosemary Palladino Leone. Other nominees: Maureen Harrington, Sharee Lemos, Anthony Salatino, Ed Sayles, Dan Tursi..

Marnie Elbies (there’s a joke buried in that name), the author of nine bestselling gothic murder mysteries, lives in a high-rise apartment on Manhattan’s 28th Street.

The ladies push the pop in Rarely Done’s Marvelous Wonderettes

The Tricky Part, at Ithaca’s Kitchen Theatre, skillfully recalls a traumatized childhood with humor and grace

The Helen Keller story is recalled in Syracuse Stage’s superb production of The Miracle Worker

Any company taking on this well-worn favorite has to sharpen some new edges while not betraying what has kept this show on the boards for 46 years. So for the current revival from Not Another Theater Company, a dinnertheater offering at the Locker Room’s Fire and Ice Banquet Hall, 528 Hiawatha Blvd.

The action is set in Corpus Christi, Texas, in the 1950s, which turns out to be where playwright McNally, born in 1939, spent his teenage years. We follow the exploits of a young man named Joshua (Ryan Diana). “Don’t call him Jesus,” an off-stage voice shouts, “people will think he’s a Mexican.