PATRICK CRONIN ON ACTING - & THREE THE HARD WAY

Just found a great article about an actor's career by stage/TV/film actor & teacher Patrick Cronin.

In October, Pat will be starring in my play THREE THE HARD WAY at East Tennessee State University, where he is the head of the acting program. We've been theatre list pals for years and have been trying for ages to have him play Albert in a production somewhere. Albert is the Zen-like dead gambler/pool player father of three interesting, hard-bitten women who have to gather in Reno to plan his funeral. I'm thrilled that he's arranged this opportunity.

The show will play at ETSU, then go to the American College Theatre Festival. He's also talked about "packaging" it to women's colleges - where he would take the role, and the students could play the daughters, and he could teach acting workshops while he's there.

THREE THE HARD WAY (now available from Dramatic Publishing) is a comedy-drama with three very meaty women's parts -- it's been done by over a dozen small theatres, including a bunch of colleges -- but it also needs the glue of a great acting performance by a male actor in his 50's-60's. I know that Pat is going to ROCK.