Archives for January 2011

You’ve got two chances to hear more from Sean Christopher Lewis this week, on the radio.

First up, this Thursday, January 20 at 11am, he’ll be joined by Buckeye Ranch Outpatient Program Clinical Supervisor Dr. Pam Scott, PhD and Ohio State University Social Work Professor Gil Greene on All Sides with Ann Fisher. (Read more or catch the archived version here.)

Then, on Monday, January 24st, (depending on where you’re listening) catch Sean telling more family stories on This American Life, in an episode titled “Slow to React.” Read more and listen to the promo right here.

And don’t forget to tell your friends about Just Kids, playing this Friday and Saturday night only.

Michael Grossberg reviewed Just Kids for the Columbus Dispatch and he has many justifiably kind words for the show. Here’s a sample.

As many Americans struggle to comprehend the roots of violence that lead some youth astray, Just Kids couldn’t be more timely.

In Available Light Theatre’s powerful world premiere, which opened Thursday to applause at the Columbus Performing Arts Center, several schoolchildren are evoked compassionately in dramatic or half-comical, half-dramatic vignettes.

Many father-son plays lead to a sentimental or inspiring reconciliation, but Lewis has the guts to stick to the messy and disappointing facts of a life that stubbornly resist being shaped into conventional uplift.

“Just Kids” is far more than just another theater entertainment or just another sentimental look at kids … quite artful in its concise weaving of disparate characters into an absorbing performance piece only a little over an hour long.

Lewis stands out by convincingly playing himself, his supportive girlfriend and his blustering, in-denial father.

“Just Kids” … a piece that does end up offering hope that one can come to terms with if not overcome or wipe away a troubling past.

Read the whole review right here.