Resolutions and Writings Elsewhere

Rehearsal photo from January Joiner, world-premiering this month at the Long Wharf Theatre.

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 ct.com web address for its own purposes. It’s been the New Mass Media domain for over a year now.)The New Haven Advocate has published my theater writings regularly for over 20 years, and I’ve also occasionally reviewed shows for its sister papers The Fairfield County Weekly and the Hartford Advocate. If they want to run more of my theater jottings online, more power to them.

But I don’t like to repeat (or reprint) myself, so there’s no guarantee that some of those items will also appear here at NHTJ.

I wrestle sometimes with how much of a “news and notes” blog New Haven Theater Jerk should be. As New Year’s resolutions for 2013, I hope to at least get back to maintaining a useful Connecticut theater calendar on this site, post extensive reviews of local shows which are different from the reviews I might publish elsewhere (including in the Advocate papers) and devising more of the humorous lists and uncommon theater thought-pieces which I so loved doing when I started this blog a couple of years ago.

But I’ve never seen the point of putting all my eggs in one basket, or blog. I write about Connecticut theater, when appropriate, for the Daily Nutmeg (www.dailynutmeg.com), the new Hartford Courant-run magazine New Haven Living, once or twice a year for Yale Alumni Magazine, and of course the Advocate papers. Plus whatever other publications come down the pike and need a theater critic in a pinch.

So, another resolution: I’ll simply try to alert readers of this blog to the theater stuff I publish elsewhere. How about that? (I’d been doing non-theater-related Arnott Archive Updates on my other blog, www.scribblers.us for a chunk of last year, and will really have to be more regular about that too.)

Here are links to some of my more recent ct.com items:

A preview of January Joiner at the Long Wharf, here.

Another January Joiner item, about an upcoming discussion of the play at RJ Julia Booksellers in Madison, with a few notes on related fitness-oriented and theatrical talks/readings at RJ Julia, here.

The casting announcement for Breath & Imagination at Hartford Stage, here.

You can find these and other theater notes at the the ct.com’s designated New Haven Advocate “Stage” page, here.

Oh, and Happy New Year!