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The Talk Radio Review
Talk Radio By Eric Bogosian. Presented by New Haven Theater Company through Sept. 17 at Ultra Radio, 242 College Street, New Haven. Directed by Hallie Martenson. Performed by Peter Chenot (Barry Champlain), Erich Greene (Stu Noonan), Hilary Brown (Linda MacArthur), Steve Scarpa (Jack Woodruff), Jack Rogers (Kent), Marty Tucker (Sid Greenberg/Callers), Jenny Schuck (Dr. Susan … Continue reading
Earnest Worthing
The comics sections are abuzz with Sept. 11 acknowledgements. Nice of Mary Worth to bring Oscar Wilde into hers. The quote is from Wilde’s Salome. The strip, we eagerly subscribe to via Daily Ink.
The Wine Peep Through Their Scars
Two theater references in this short London Times editorial regarding AC/DC’s full-band endorsement of a line of Warburton Estate wines. Vintages include Highway to Hell Cabernet Sauvignon. AC/DC are merely following a path trodden by other one-time hellraisers. A journey from consuming substances so toxic they make lab rats go blind to marketing your own … Continue reading
More Lou Harry Trivia Games
The first three rounds are here and the answers to those first three rounds are here For the uninitiated, these questions emanate from a pub quiz which the wonderful Lou Harry of the Indianapolis Business News put together one night for a bunch of theater journalists who were in L.A. as part of an NEA/Annenberg … Continue reading
Little Theater for Little Women
I’ve had kids’ theater on my mind these days, and want now to acknowledge my awe for one of the best anthologies of theater BY children that’s ever existed. Comic Tragedies was copywritten 1893 by Anna B. Pratt but the title page says “Written by ‘Jo’ and ‘Meg’ and acted by the ‘Little Women’.” A … Continue reading
A Strong Second: An Interview with Cecily Strong of the Second City Touring Company, at Long Wharf
The press materials for the Long Wharf’s six-performance visit from the seasoned Second City improv troupe ballyhoos that “Belushi, Colbert, Carell, Murray, Radner, Myers, Fey, Meadows, Farley, Aykroyd all came through Second City.” But the institution, which has formalized a distinctive brand of scripted sketch comedy with improv incursions, is grander than any one of … Continue reading
Theater Brett
Simon Brett is beloved of theater geeks of all stripes for his inspired series of mystery novels starring the so-so professional actor, accomplished amateur crimesolver and prodigious drinker Charles Paris. The Charles Paris books have satirized every aspect of acting, from West End to sitcoms to one-man shows to community theater to books-on-tape recordings (though … Continue reading
Art You on the Bus?
Spring is really sneaking up on me. Like a bus. Honking. Hard to believe it’s time for the 14th annual Westville Village ArtWalk. Befitting an area of town once renowned for carriage-building and buggy races, this year the ArtWalk has evolved beyond walking, moving into the world of wheels and mass transit by linking up … Continue reading
The Jafferis juggernaut
Thanks to the industrious and radical Aaron Jafferis for making sure that the blogging these days isn’t all about those tyrannic Tonys. Aarron’s theater has always been street, even when it’s Shakespeare (he did a solo rap routine based on the bard) or trapped in an elevator. His most recent musical, Stuck Elevator, got a … Continue reading