‘Walter Cronkite is Dead’ opening at Studio Players on September 25
The Studio Players’ production of Walter Cronkite Is Dead opens September 25 at The Joan Jenks Auditorium in the Golden Gate Community Center. Directed by Hollis Galman, this timely show by playwright Joe Caraco stars Kathleen Barney as Patty and Cindy Hile as Margaret.
The setting is Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C., where Patty and Margaret have been marooned in a waiting area after an outbreak of fierce thunderstorms have shut down airports up and down the East Coast. It quickly becomes clear that the two have nothing in common. Patty’s a chatty southerner—a blue-collar woman from a red state who is seemingly unable to tolerate silence. Margaret is a reserved, educated and liberal Washingtonian 
who is not the least bit interested in sharing her thoughts, or her table, with Patty. Thrown together for a long night in a public place, the two strangers have no choice but to share a bottle of wine and begin to talk … and to listen.
Their conversation is funny, difficult, deeply revealing and astonishingly frank. Patty and Margaret share details of their lives that lead them to a place of kinship neither of them could have imagined. Yes, Walter Cronkite is dead, but his wisdom and compassion lives on in this insightful comedy about what might be possible if people from opposite 
sides of the political aisle would stop shouting and take even one night to listen.
Walter Cronkite Is Dead runs through October 11. Go here for show dates, times and ticket information. For more information about the theater or Walter Cronkite is Dead, visit www.thestudioplayers.org or telephone 239-398-9192.
August 21, 2020.
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Tom Hall is both an amateur artist and aspiring novelist who writes art quest thrillers. He is in the final stages of completing his debut novel titled "Art Detective," a story that fictionalizes the discovery of the fabled billion-dollar Impressionist collection of Parisian art dealer Josse Bernheim-Jeune, thought by many to have perished during World War II when the collection's hiding place, Castle de Rastignac in southern France, was destroyed by the Wehrmacht in reprisal for attacks made by members of the Resistance operating in the area. A former tax attorney, Tom holds a bachelor's degree as well as both a juris doctorate and masters of laws in taxation from the University of Florida. Tom lives in Estero, Florida with his fiancee, Connie, and their four cats.