The inspiration for my new play Bridge came when I read an article about the great tenor sax player, Sonny Rollins.  At the height of his career, Rollins stopped playing in public for two years. Instead, he went up on New York’s Williamsburg Bridge at night, found a private corner, a little sanctuary, where he could experiment and improvise to his heart’s content. Rollins, a deeply spiritual person as well as a skilled artist, had a blissful time up there.  Free of all commercial restraints, he played solo for hour after hour, expressing all of the sounds and feelings that bubbled up from deep within him.  READ MORE