Michael Chiklis drops by Martha’s Vineyard theater

Michael Chiklis drops by Martha’s Vineyard theater

June 6, 2016
By Eryn Carlson, Boston Globe Correspondent
Michael and Autumn Chiklis on set at Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse.

Michael and Autumn Chiklis on set at Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse.

Actor Michael Chiklis was in the audience at Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse Thursday, there to see his daughter Autumn — who for many years played the daughter of Chiklis’s character Vic Mackey on “The Shield” — take the stage. Autumn portrays Lisa Bieberman, assistant of Timothy Leary, in the world premiere staging of “High Time” by Larry Mollin, a writer and producer with credits including TV series like “The New Gidget” and “Beverly Hills, 90210.” The play details a 12-hour acid trip with Bieberman and Leary, as well as Leary’s wife Rosemary Woodruff Leary, Allen Ginsberg,Alan Watts, and Mary Meyer, a mistress of JFK’s.