The duo, who are also collaborating on the musical's lyrics, recently spent a week at Running Deer Musical Theater Lab to develop the show. Their goal is to complete the first draft this summer, cut a ...

baseball represents a complete literary narrative with a beginning, a middle, and an end; with intensely and complexly motivated major characters (the pitcher and the hitter) in direct conflict with ...

When it comes to musicals, Broadway librettist Marc Acito (Allegiance) wants to flip the script. Inspired by the songs of indie-rocker Storm Large, Acito wrote and directed the new film MAD/WOMAN "to ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Author Marc Acito can spot them a city block away, the real-life counterparts to the drama geeks who populate his fizzy first novel, a coming-of-age caper set in deepest suburbia. He ...

” was inspired by the life experience of George Takei. The U.S. government sent Takei's family to two internment camps during World War II. Takei was just 5 years old when the ordeal began. Portlander ...

Marc Acito's second novel didn't stand a ghost of a chance. The Portland author made a splash in 2004 with a comic gem of a debut, "How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship and ...

This story is part of Loved and Lost, a statewide media collaboration working to celebrate the life of every New Jersey resident who died of COVID-19. To learn more and submit a loved one's name to ...