At long last, after twenty-five years of creative retirement, author/director Brooking finds himself in New Orleans relaxing on Jackson Square in the French Quarter with neighborhood friend Carolyn Krack. You are holding in your hands his new theatre-memoir entitled "THE THEATAH": "An Academic's Love Affair with the Wicked Stage, " In this "magnum opus "of the stage, " "Brooking leads the reader through the roller-coaster world of academic theatre with passion and humor, " "sharing with the reader the director's joys and despairs as he guides fifty plays, musicals and operas from the...