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Sean’s All over the Radio

January 19, 2011 By Matt Leave a Comment

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.

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Dispatch: “A powerful world premiere.”

January 14, 2011 By Matt Leave a Comment

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.

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The video preview of Just Kids

January 14, 2011 By Matt Leave a Comment

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Photo evidence: Just Kids

January 12, 2011 By Matt Leave a Comment

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Just Kids: A Dispatch from Columbus

January 10, 2011 By Matt Leave a Comment

Only three days till opening, and we’re feeling almost ready. We invited a few of our nearest and dearest to watch a rehearsal just before our tech weekend, and they had a couple of nice things to say about it.

Dwayne Steward:

Saw a sneak peak of Available Light Theatre’s upcoming premiere of Just Kids with Andronicus Hobson tonight. If I were still getting paid for my critiques I might just call it “another tour de force from the brilliant pairing that is Sean Lewis and Matt Slaybaugh. Somehow every time these two create together, magic happens.” Do yourself a favor and go. Period. (Show runs Jan. 13-22 at Columbus Performing Arts Center.)

Rachel Lewis

“Just Kids” is an autobiographical journey that is both hilarious and heartbreaking. Lewis takes his audience with him to Kansas and has them laughing within minutes, reliving his experience as a playwright-in-residence at a school for at-risk youth. Playing characters ranging from his fiance to his students, Lewis juxtaposes the stories of the troubled kids who touched his life with his own challenging childhood.

Here are a couple more pictures from the show.

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Just Kids: A Dispatch from Manhattan

December 26, 2010 By Matt Leave a Comment

Sean Lewis & director Matt Slaybaugh took a couple of days out of the holiday season to meet-up in New York City and get down to brass tacks about finishing a production draft of the Just Kids script.

Near the end of their second long day of work, they took a few minutes to talk about the show.

Here’s a video with some excerpts from the conversation. In it Sean talks about the importance of doing personal work, and the difficulties of involving Rick, his biological father, in the show.

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Sean Lewis … the recap

December 19, 2010 By Matt Leave a Comment

Take three and three quarters minutes to get acquainted with Mr. Lewis and his oeuvre by watching this new video.

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Just Kids: A Dispatch from Iowa City

November 23, 2010 By Matt Leave a Comment

Press play to hear Sean Lewis talk about his new show and perform excerpts from the show.

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