I'd Like to Do It Again

A candid memoir opens with a bittersweet discovery: a tattered, nine‑year‑old manuscript titled Diamond Cut Diamond tucked away among a mother’s treasured belongings. The author recounts the shock of reading his childhood attempt at drama—complete with a lone survivor who ends the act with suicide—while reflecting on his mother’s wry smile and the fierce ambition that shaped her eight children.

From the quiet streets of Bangor, Maine, he traces a path that led a shy, fast‑running Harvard freshman into the intoxicating world of the stage. He paints vivid pictures of early theatrical icons, the pull of the footlights, and the tension between a practical New England upbringing and an irrepressible desire to “draw pictures on the wall” of life. Listeners will be drawn into his honest, often humorous, exploration of the forces that forged a prolific playwright, discovering how a single childhood script sparked a lifelong devotion to drama.