The Way of StoryWhat Keeps Writers & Teachers Going
Sometimes writers and teachers get tired of being the one having a different take on life and writing, and may wonder if it worth the trials to keep on keeping on. Then, out of the blue, angels sing and the universe responds with awards or rise in sales of courses or books, or a letter […]
New Dimensions Radio Interview
http://www.newdimensions.org/healing-through-focused-journaling-with-catherine-ann-jones/ Sign In | Sign Out Healing Through Focused Journaling with Catherine Ann Jones Posted on May 14, 2014 by New Dimensions in Interviews Jones gives practical advice as to how we can engage in deep inner work through focused journaling. She shares exercises that can act as powerful […]
Freud’s Oracle Reviews
Freud’s Oracle, written and performed by award-winning actor-playwright Catherine Ann Jones, is a one-person play about the American poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle 1886-1961) and her relationship with Sigmund Freud. H.D. suffered great personal losses and a nervous breakdown due to the Great War, becoming Freud’s patient in 1933 due to an increasing paranoia about the rise […]
The Women of Cedar Creek Reviews
The Women of Cedar Creek (NY Drama League Award & The Beverly Hills Theatre Guild Award) by Catherine Ann Jones is a very earnest drama about the inability to preserve a vanishing era of family history giving the audience a lesson in bereavement, the realization of mortality, and the consequences of addressing the skeletons in the […]
Calamity Jane the Play Review
Calamity Jane the Play Calamity Jane the Musical Calamity Jane, a musical combining the Wild West with a bittersweet mother-daughter drama…this high quality show explores the myths and truths of Calamity Jane with clever lyrics and musical appeal…You’ll be humming its songs for days! – Atlantic City Press Catherine Ann Jones’s libretto offers a […]
Literacy Gumbo: Catherine Ann Jones Interview
Literary Gumbo: Catherine Ann Jones from Literary Gumbo on Vimeo. Playwrighter Catherine Ann Jones sits down with host Fred Klein to talk about her new play Freud’s Oracle. One of her previous plays, The Women of Cedar Creek, has had a recent reprise.
Two Plays Opening This Week in S. CA
“https://player.vimeo.com/video/161130951″ for television interview with the author It’s so confirming as a playwright to know that something you wrote thirty years ago is as relevant today as when it was first written and produced. Several productions later, The Women of Cedar Creek still makes audiences laugh out loud and be moved to tears in the same […]
Consider One Word Titles for Books & Movies
As Oscar Night looms (February 28th this year, 2016), might be interesting to ponder how many Movies have won Best Picture that have one-word titles. Might be fun to first guess then look at this list at Oscar-winners over the years: One-word Best Picture winners Amadeus Argo Ben-Hur (yes, hyphens are cool) Braveheart Casablanca Cavalcade […]
Return from India, Jetlag, and Keats
John Keats (1795–1821) Recently returned from two weeks in India where I embarked upon a solitary retreat sans phone, sans Netflix, sans friends. It is necessary and sometimes wonderful to sit for days in silence and ponder – though often a bit terrifying. Returned home with a deep gratitude for […]
Pilgrimage to India
Albert Camus once said, “What gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we have. Far from our own people, our own language, stripped of all our props, deprived of our masks, we are completely on the surface of ourselves.” Fear brings an added dimension in today’s world […]