Do you feel a story coming on? We all lived through 2020 and the pandemic years—but we didn’t all live the same story. For our next SPARK Storytellers event, we’re gathering personal stories about those years and the ways the experience changed us. Not politics. Not policies. Not arguments about what should or shouldn’t have happened. We’re interested in what happened to you. Maybe your story begins with Before the pandemic, I thought… Now I know. Or perhaps it’s about someth

There is something about this time of year at Stage Left Players. The summer whirlwind settles down—or at least changes direction. The calendar on the wall suddenly looks alarmingly full. Scripts appear. People start talking about costumes, rehearsal schedules, props and things we probably need to build. And somehow, here we are. Season 34. Thirty-four seasons of gathering people together to tell stories in our little theatre in Lisbon. You'd think after all these years I'd