GLENS FALLS — In the past 25 years or so, actor Robert Clohessy has been in more than 75 movies, two Broadway shows, 300 TV episodes, acted in Shakespeare twice and “A Streetcar Named Desire” three times.
And he has written one play.
“Writing is just too hard,” said Clohessy, most familiar to TV audiences for playing law-enforcement roles. He was a cop in 20 episodes of “Hill Street Blues” in 1986-87, a prison guard in 38 episodes of “Oz” from 1999 to 2003 and, since 2010, prominent in more than 200 episodes on the CBS drama “Blue Bloods,” where, as a street cop turned top aide to the New York City police commissioner, he regularly clashes and commiserates with Tom Selleck.
Clohessy’s play — “The only one I wrote and the only one I ever will,” he said — is called “Welcome Home, Johnny.” It will receive two performances Saturday, April 8, at the Charles R. Wood Theater. Presented as a semistaged reading that is part of the play’s development process, with an eye toward rewrites and perhaps future full productions, it will feature a cast that is in costume and moving around a limited set but reading from scripts. Directed by Jarel Davidow, artistic director of the Lake George Dinner Theatre, the play is being presented by the Wood Theater three years after an earlier reading there was derailed by the onset of the pandemic, having come to the attention of Wood management following a previous reading, also in Glens Falls.
“Welcome Home, Johnny”
A semistaged reading
When: 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday, April 8
Where:Charles R. Wood Theater, 207 Glen St., Glens Falls
Tickets: $10
Info: 518-480-4878 and woodtheater.org/events
The connection between this North Country city and an actor who has been based in his native New York City for decades is the title character of “Welcome Home, Johnny”: Clohessy’s older brother John, who has…
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