David Downing News

Following its acclaimed 2018 national tour, C.S. Lewis Onstage: The Most Reluctant Convert starring Max McLean as C.S. Lewis has eleven performances at The Broad Stage Thursday, July 11 to Sunday, July 21 (press opening is Friday, July 12). The play is presented in Santa Monica by Fellowship for Performing Arts, the producers of The Screwtape Letters and The Great Divorce.

Cincinnati Shakespeare Company continues its 25th Anniversary Season at The Otto M. Budig Theater with William Shakespeare's Macbeth. The production is directed by Cincinnati Shakespeare Company's Associate Artist Miranda McGee and features a 21 person cast featuring CSC Resident Ensemble Members Giles Davies as Macbeth, Kelly Mengelkoch as Lady Macbeth, Grant Niezgodski as Macduff, and Justin McCombs as Banquo. Macbeth is generously sponsored by Kelley & David Downing, Judge (Ret.) Mark P. Painter & Sue Ann Painter, the Pete Strange Family, as well as PNC Bank and Taft Law.

A staged reading of Seven Porters from Stockbridge, written and directed by actor/writer/director Ken Sagoes will take place today, November 12, starring LOVE BOAT's Ted Lange.

A staged reading of Seven Porters from Stockbridge, written and directed by actor/writer/director Ken Sagoes will take place on Saturday, November 12, starring LOVE BOAT's Ted Lange.

The Treasure Island Beach Resort is scheduled to open early first quarter 2016, according to the resort's ownership group Ocean Properties Ltd. The first new hotel to be built on the beach in Treasure Island in years, the all-suite luxury property is perched on an expansive stretch of powdery white sand, designed with all guestrooms offering a view of the stunning Gulf of Mexico and features a beachfront swimming pool and casual restaurant.

Despite its title and its almost documentary feel for period spy-craft, David Downing's Jack of Spies isn't necessarily bound by genre.

It is 1913 at the beginning of Jack of Spies (Soho Crime | May, 2014) and a globe-trotting luxury automobile salesman named Jack McColl is putting his military background and ear for languages to work for the fledgling Royal Navy intelligence services. The world is on the brink of calamity, as the UK, Germany, and Europe inch closer to the First World War and Jack is about to find himself a player on the biggest of stages.

JANUARY 2014 FOREIGN GODS, INC. BY OKEY NDIBE Soho Press | Hardcover | 9781616953133 'Like the love child of Chinua Achebe and Victor LaValle.'-Tayari Jones,Silver Sparrow After reading an article in New York Magazine about a high-end Manhattan art dealer specializing in the sale of divine effigies, a rakish Nigerian emigre cabdriver-who has had no end of frustrations while living in New York City-plots to resolve his gambling debts and other woes by stealing the god of war from his home village in Nigeria. At once a post-colonial novel reminiscent of Rushdie and Achebe's early works-with strong themes concerning race and the clash of culture and religion-Foreign Gods, Inc. yet also invokes the existential crisis of Dostoevsky's devilish morality tales.

With an eye toward direct to consumer digital sales and a new subscription offering, the Manhattan-basedSoho Press has completed a comprehensive redesign of their website.

With the publication of Masaryk Station (Soho Crime, June, 2013) David Downing will have brought to completion his remarkable John Russell series of novels, which have been praised as much for their thrilling plots as for their powerful depiction of individual hardships of the 20th century.

This weekend, beginning Saturday, October 17, L.A. Theatre Works will air Mr. Rickey Calls a Meeting by Ed Schmidt, starring Edward Asner, David Downing, Tommy Hicks, Carl Lumbly, Sterling Macer, Charlie Robinson and Rugg Williams.

This weekend, beginning Saturday, October 17, L.A. Theatre Works will air Mr. Rickey Calls a Meeting by Ed Schmidt, starring Edward Asner, David Downing, Tommy Hicks, Carl Lumbly, Sterling Macer, Charlie Robinson and Rugg Williams.