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Barry McGuire (a veteran of the original Broadway production of Hair) played Peter in this 1978 musical by Jimmy & Carol Owens, about the resurrection of Jesus. So does that make McGuire’s solo ’60s hit “The Eve of Destruction” a second-coming riff? The whole freakin’ Witness soundtrack can be found on YouTube. The Jimmy & … Continue reading »

From an excellent anthology of F.B. Opper’s century-old Happy Hooligan comic strips, published by NBM’s Forever Nuts Classic Screwball Strips series and edited by Jeffrey Lindenblatt.

The Irish Literary Landscape from International Festival of Arts & on Vimeo. Arts & Ideas got into the podcast game a couple of years ago, releasing audio versions of various lectures and discussions held during recent festivals. Having just announced its 2012 festival, A&I recently posted two new podcasts with content from last year’s event, … Continue reading »

We did a five-minute rendition of Menaechmi, with eight kids aged 6 to 12. It was our second Plautus; one of the first Play in a Day projects was The Haunted House. Above is a four-second outtake where co-narrator Rosie has forgotten that she’s supposed to be talking in gibberish. The complete five-minute production is … Continue reading »

What we need in the American theater is more impulse decisions like in panel two of this story from Veronica comics #145 (December 2003). The story is scripted by Kathleen Webb, pencilled by Dan Parent and inked by Jon D’Agostino.  

Bell, Book and Candle began previews at Hartford Stage last night. The same production, with the same cast and designers, just left the Long Wharf Theatre, where it ran March 7-April 1. Before that, the same director, one of the actors, and the set and lighting designers did Bell, Book and Candle in 2007 at … Continue reading »

I know, I know. Education stories are so fascinating. But here’s another one. I posted yesterday that Long Wharf Theatre’s a finalist for a $10,000 check earmarked for theater education programs, from the National Corporate Theatre Fund. Today, the same theater’s announced that it’s getting $224,500 from the Werth Family Foundation to “fund the development … Continue reading »

Can’t let the Yale Rep production of The Winter’s Tale close without praising its program notes, which match the upbeat silliness of the show’s best Bohemian scenes and also offer sober refelction on a famously difficult text. The program includes several pages of a parody travel guide leading readers through the fantastical Shakespearean countries of … Continue reading »

The Yale School of Drama has announced the titles and directors for its 2012 Carlotta Festival of New Plays. Who the playwrights would be was never in doubt. As ever, they’re the graduating class from the YSD’s playwriting program. In this case, they’re the last to leave the Department of Playwriting before it welcomes its … Continue reading »

From a pint-sized Riverdale parody of a certain urban romantic musical, as documented in the story “Flip Side Story” from Little Archie Digest Magazine #8 (August 1992). The saga is scripted and pencilled by Dan Parent, inked by Jon D’Agostino. The “Maria” gag is inspired, don’tcha think? Rest assured, the story opens with the joke … Continue reading »