Author Archives: Christopher Arnott
The All of What You Love and None of What You Hate Review
All of What You Love and None of What You Hate Through Jan. 19 at the Yale Cabaret, 217 Park St., New Haven. 8 p.m. & 11 p.m. (Both performances are sold out.) (203) 432-1565, www.yalecabaret.org. By Phillip Howze. Directed by Kate Tarker. Choreographer: Jabari Brisport. Scenic Designers: Portia Elmer, Mariana Sanchez. Costume Designer: … Continue reading
Dramatic Readers Needed Next Monday (and Beyond)
I am in need of actors/orators willing to read fairly lengthy excerpts from classic prose works—Greek mythology, turn-of-the-century European decadent works, etc.—for the January 7 “volume” of the new monthly storytelling/spoken word series I’m hosting at Café Nine. And if you’re not around January 7, then maybe Feb. 4, March 4, April 8 and beyond. … Continue reading
We’ve Senate All Before
Capping a holiday season political spectacle that featured enough high and low notes for a Broadway musical, the GOP-run House voted final approval for the measure by 257-167 late Tuesday. —Associated Press, 2 Jan. 2012 Wrong theater metaphor, AP. If our elected senators and congresspeople gave more funding, or paid more attention to, the … Continue reading
“The orchard walls are high and hard to climb”
If Romeo & Juliet are this passionate at the balcony scene, just think how steamed Veronica (who’s she playing, anyway? the nurse?) will be when they actually share a room for “‘Tis the lark! No, ’tis the nightingale!” From Betty & Veronica #181, January 2003 (a decade ago this very month).
Resolutions and Writings Elsewhere
I’ve begun posting some of the more press-release-based theater news items I write on www.ct.com rather than here. ct.com is the site for the New Haven Advocate and other papers in the New Mass Media chain of alt-weeklies. (The chain has been owned since the mid-1990s by the Hartford Courant, which used to use the … Continue reading
Jack Klugman’s Oscar
In Jack Klugman’s memoirs, he expresses incredulity that Tony Randall could have passed away before he did. It does seem unlikely. Klugman had battled throat cancer, was a dedicated smoker and gambler and appeared to have depressive tendencies. Randall was the puckish workhorse who seemed to live on TV talk show stages when not running … Continue reading
The Art of the Archers
Now that The Killing of Sister George has vacated the Long Wharf mainstage, where do you go to get your fix of the sort of British radio drama of the type which fuels that drama? The show lampooned in The Killing of Sister George as Applehurst (in which the play’s blowzy protagonist, June Buckridge, portrays … Continue reading
Mattie Brickman’s Writing a Web Series
Holidays are a good time for catching up with folks you’ve lost touch with. I followed Mattie Brickman’s playwriting activites avidly when she was a graduate student at the Yale School of Drama, but lost track of her work after she graduated. She’d been part of a class of playwrights who were distinguished by their … Continue reading
A Greater Tuna Sermon
The pastor of United Church on the Green, the church my family has attended faithfully for the past seven years, has been known to sneak theater references into his sermons. One of the first times I heard him preach, he interpolated a few lines of a showtune. One memorable Sunday, he invited the cast of … Continue reading
The Return of PLAY IN A DAY, Thursday, Dec. 27 at Neverending Books
We did 15 of these in a year’s span, then took a few months off. Now that it’s school vacation, it’s time to bring back Play in a Day, my singular children’s theater project. I began doing Play in a Day at the behest of my daughters Mabel and Sally, with the strong and constant … Continue reading