My column this week is about American playwright Moss Hart, his fine autobiography, and how what he talks about in it is often clearly reflected in local theater.  Here’s an excerpt:

Writing, however, proved to be his strength and brought him back to the world he longed for.  He wrote his first hit play “Once in a Lifetime” in 1930, collaborating with the already legendary George S. Kaufman and then they followed with two more that became timeless pieces of American comedy: 1937’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “You Can’t Take it with You,” and “The Man Who Came to Dinner” in 1939.  Hart also wrote with famed composers like Cole Porter and Irving Berlin and later directed Broadway productions of “My Fair Lady,” and “Camelot.”

Of his writing partner Kaufman once remarked that “nothing happens to Moss in the simple and ordinary terms in which it happens to the average person.  The most normal of human experiences is crowded with drama where Moss is concerned.”  Appreciating the drama in everyday life is still a crucial element for those who love to work in the theater.

Read the whole thing HERE today in the Waco Tribune-Herald.

Moss Hart (right), with George S. Kaufman at the typewriter.