The Johnstown Vindicator

Jack, the city editor, grapples with the secrets of his dubious parentage, and manages to alienate Janet, his ace staffer, in the process

JJ, the cub reporter, stumbles in and out of competence, while Pepper, JJ's nubile girlfriend, bypasses competence altogether and breaks into print This profoundly irritates the veteran Hump, who proceeds to drink himself out of a job

Carl, the minister's son - and self-proclaimed patricide- can't get anybody to believe that he killed his father - because he didn't - so he shifts focus and proposes to Jack's oddball mother

It is Jack`s mother, as it happens, who orchestrated the murder as a boon for her son, who is trying to get the goods on Tucci, his arch enemy and long-lost brother

All very bizarre-but, in the end, evil is punished, good is rewarded, Mom expires, and the boys (finally) grow up

First produced at New York's Harold Clurman Theatre, this fast-paced, brilliantly imaginative farce about strange doings at a small town newspaper deals with events as antic as they are original: Son shoots father (or does he?); father falls dead; local paper writes it up

Just another day at The Vindicator! But this time Jack, the city editor, faces the deadline of his life. Will he nail the story?

His reporters are incompetent, and his love life's a mess. But how can he fail? After all, his mother loves him!

"Mr. Long has his own style of wackiness. THE JOHNSTOWN VINDICATOR is a kick" - NY Times