How could the case of Edward Snowden have anything to do with global warming?  By now I probably don’t have to mention that Edward Snowden is the intelligence analyst who blew the whistle on the NSA’s previously top secret PRISM program which has, among other things, monitored all our phone calls, emails and texts.

We’re still feeling the effects of lost sleep, but we’re also basking in the glow of the most dramatically successful program we’ve ever produced.  Sitting in the darkened theater Sunday afternoon watching such a challenging, one-and-only walk through of Carry it Forward, the evening’s program, I wondered if we hadn’t taken on more than we could handle.  This was our most ambitious theatrical undertaking.  We’d orchestrated at least one minimally staged scene before, but what we planned this time was much more

The RFC’s program, Carry it Forward, will take place this Sunday evening, June 16th, just days before the exact date of the 60th anniversary of my parents’ execution.  In response to this timing, my wife, Elli, who authored the script, wrote this year’s performance in four acts to mirror my parents’ final four days.  In 2009, I wrote blogs on five consecutive days that outlined the events of the last five days of my parents’ lives and my reaction to

Only ten days until Carry it Forward, the RFC’s program at Town Hall in New York City to commemorate the 60th anniversary of my parents’ execution, will take place.  It has become extremely hectic at our office as the results of more than a year of planning reach fruition.

The subject of treason came up in a rerun of the television series I was watching last week.   Naturally, the heroes got involved in foiling a terrorism plot.  While being given classified government information during a briefing they were told that if they divulge anything about it they would be committing treason.  I didn’t think anything of this at the time, perhaps because recently I’ve heard similar statements on several other TV shows.