I want to thank God and all of you for an amazing 2025. It was a year that began with milestone celebrations: My BFF, Carolyn Lorraine Johnson, celebrated her 75 th birthday in JANUARY. What a time we had! My good friend, Susan Bacon, celebrated her retirement in JANUARY. More good stuff in JANUARY . I filmed a national Scott Lawn Commercial. My good friend, Tyreese Burnett, celebrated his 50 th birthday in FEBRUARY. Then I was blessed to film a proof of concept short film, titled Dottie,...

A Girl’s Guilt Trip – Hudson Backstage Theatre Reviewed by Amalisha HuEck The life of an artist is often deeply perplexed with many transformational consequences. Alretha Thomas, who wrote, co-produced, and co-directed with her husband Roy Thomas, her powerful new play, A Girl’s Guilt Trip , after more than three decades of being absent from the stage lights, returned to the theatre at full speed. During her absence she was writing and working on her craft while working through the fallout of...

We’re less than three weeks away from the world premiere of my new play, A GIRL’S GUILT TRIP, and I’m in my feelings! I want to give God the Glory for planting the idea for the play in my soul and for nurturing and watering it until it flowed from my heart, soul, and mind onto the page. I thank Him for the characters, for the story, and the message of friendship, family, and forgiveness, and most of all, I thank Him for the people, who I believe, He chose before He laid down the foundation of...