This Verse Business

29/09/2024

Gordon Clapp worked his magic again last week in the Michigan premiere of my Frost play--the 11th state we've visited. With no run-through in a new space, he walks on and completely convinces another crowd he's the iconic poet and rascally platform legend. Only 39 more states to go!

02/08/2024

If you happen to be on Cape Cod, you still have a chance to see (VERY few seats left) MY DINNER WITH ANDRE at https://www.harborstage.org/. Jonathan Fielding, in the Wallace Shawn role, warmly and anxiously invites the audience to join him for dinner with his brilliant, somewhat eccentric theatre director friend, played by Robert Kropf in the Andre Gregory role. Jonathan is the perfect intermediary. Bob gives a performance for the ages.

27/07/2024

Only a few seats left for two benefit FROST performances at Harbor Stage starring the poetically captivating Gordon Clapp on Cape Cod:

Actor Gordon Clapp, who won an Emmy for his 'NYPD Blue' role as Detective Greg Medavoy, performs Robert Frost one-man show in Wellfleet. What we know.

19/07/2024

Gordon Clapp will again delightfully conjure the great poet this weekend at the Stonington Opera House in Maine. Charming town, great theatre:

July 19 & 20

03/07/2024

Nice Hartford Courant article about our upcoming performance at The Kate in Old Saybrook Ct. this Sunday at 2pm. If you're in the area, come see Gordon Clapp captivate another audience as the witty icon:

“Robert Frost: This Verse Business,” based on recordings of the speaking engagements of one of the most famous American poets of all time, has a single performance at The Kate.

25/04/2024

Only Four More Performances.

"The power of poetry and the art of acting are on exquisite display in A.M. Dolan’s, “This Verse Business." Gordon Clapp’s performance as the great American poet Robert Frost is a revelation." David Strathairn (Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning actor)

24/04/2024

Hey Boston We are up and running. Tonight thru April 28.
https://www.bostontheatrescene.com/shows-and-events/robert-frost-this-verse-business/

23/04/2024

"Frost Gordon" (another name I have for my play, "Robert Frost: This Verse Business," starring that talented and intrepid explorer of inner and outer worlds, Gordon Clapp) opens tomorrow at the Calderwood Pavilion in Boston. On this Earth Day, I'll quote the poet, who said "The surest thing there is is we are riders...": "...What is this talked-of mystery of birth
But being mounted ba****ck on the earth?" Come enjoy the ride for a little while--six performances only, April 23-28:

Emmy-winner (NYPD Blue), IRNE-winner (Man in the Ring), and Tony-nominee, Gordon Clapp, stars as poet Robert Frost, who “barded” around the country for nearly 50 years giving sold-out talks to mixed crowds of poetry readers and non-readers alike. Arguably the nation’s first superstar poet, he ...

21/04/2024

After more than a decade on the road we've arrived in Boston. See what the witty, beguiling bard has to say about art, life, death and much more. Frost was funny and profound on the public stage. Gordon Clapp delivers an outstanding, "above the brim" performance. David Strathairn called it, "a revelation." It's as great as Holbrook's Twain and Julie Harris' Dickinson in my opinion. In honor of Poetry Month and Frost's sesquicentennial, take the (hopefully) heavily traveled road to the Calderwood Pavilion this week: https://www.bostontheatrescene.com/shows-and-events/robert-frost-this-verse-business/

20/04/2024

A photo I took of Robert Frost's Ripton, VT cabin last September. You might believe you've been taken there by Gordon Clapp's performance of the poet in my play opening next Tuesday at the Calderwood Pavilion: https://www.bostontheatrescene.com/shows-and-events/robert-frost-this-verse-business/

17/04/2024

Robert Frost: This Verse Business star Gordon Clapp will chat live with Jared Bowen on WGBH's The Culture Show today at 2 p.m. Please tune in WGBH-FM 89.7. To share your opinion, email [email protected] or call/text 617-300-3838.