Turning Point: A Matter of Medium

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Now I seem to be at another turning point. Three summers ago, some friends on Martha's Vineyard asked me to put together a theater benefit. So I took some long comic strips that Vanity Fair paid me a lot of money for but never ran, and I added bits of this and that, got my friend Michael Wolff to compose some music for it and called it Jules' Blues. I cast only family and friends. It played like a dream, and suddenly I'm back in the theater. There's talk of putting the show on in New York. And I've accepted a grant to write a new play. A couple of years ago, Lincoln Center offered me a commission to write one, and I said, "Never." After Jules' Blues, I went back to them and said, "Never is over."

--As told to Francine Russo