My comment "never talk to the press" was tounge-in-cheek.  But apparently some folks just didn't get it.   Anyway I agree that one must be carefull if you're going be interviewed about a show and conoting anything negative about the play or the production is only going to hurt you in the end.   You have use the press to your advantage.

I only wish the local papers would do real reviews at my ct rather a version of our press release of what it's about and who's in it.

Yeah.   Someone can find something to be offended by in every play...we're working on Taming of the Shrew and you wouldn't believe how many frowns we're getting from the feminist ( and I consider myself one) group.  Get over it!  We're going to bend a bit by having Kate give a broad wink as the curtain goes down but actually (as the director and I both quietly say) Kate was broken and subdued by the end of that play as Shakespeare wrote it.  It's just not funny to "tame" women in our society....although for some reason we are allowed to "tame" men.

And I send a hug across the ether to you as a sister mom of "disordered" kids.  Keep the humor in the situation...that's how we make it through every day. 

Small world!

My eldest son (age 16) also has autism.  We just got him out of the hospital a couple days ago because we discovered he was ingesting things that weren't food.  (Small objects, coins, etc etc.)  This was a behavior that we thought he'd outgrown at age 8.  It was a rude awakening for all of us.

He also has a neat, fist-sized hole in his bedroom drywall from a frustration outburst.  My background in building sets and props has help me learn how to repair just about everything in my house.  I haven't had the time to fix that hole just yet.

My wife is a writer and her first full-length play is about the joys and frustrations of raising a child with this disorder.  It had a staged reading last year and there is a possibility it will go into a full production this fall.  The language in her script is extremely raw and honest and sure to offend those with delicate sensibilities.

PS:  When our CT did "Shrew" our take was that Petruchio was enamored with the firey, obstinate Kate and -- when he realizes she is tamed at the play's end -- discovers he's ruined the part of her personality that made their relationship so fun and exciting.  It was a bittersweet ending and it still pi**ed people off.