Private Jones' Tale of a Deaf WWI Soldier Offers a Fresh Riff on Well-Worn War Stories
Marshall Pailet’s Private Jones covers a lot of ground and packs a punch that—with time and fine tuning—will only get stronger.
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Marshall Pailet’s Private Jones covers a lot of ground and packs a punch that—with time and fine tuning—will only get stronger.
Signature's moving world-premiere musical "Private Jones" marches boldly into a deaf soldier's odyssey at war.
Signature Theatre presents the world premiere musical of a deaf sniper in World War I.
The shattering of the world that took place during World War I propelled humanity into a fight for survival amidst the onslaught of enemy forces. The cacophony and horror of that war was fought in the trenches and on the open fields as portrayed in the poem “In Flanders Fields”, and in the many films including All Quiet on the Western Front and 1917, etc. Right now, however, this war is being fought theatrically (and with an emotional gut punch) on the stage of the Max at Signature Theatre.
Erin Weaver will be writing the Bridgeville Public Library’s next chapter. Weaver, 38, of South Fayette became the library’s director at the start of the year. “It was a chance to run the library and continue on with the mission and the things we’re doing, and leave a positive impact