Courant Affairs, and my new Twitter handle @courantcarnott
This post has been a long time coming. Needed it to start feeling less like a dream and more like a new job. The news is old and obvious to […]
This post has been a long time coming. Needed it to start feeling less like a dream and more like a new job. The news is old and obvious to […]
I’ve just added a long list of upcoming Connecticut theater events to this site, as a separate page, here. It covers early November through the end of the season. Hundreds of […]
Thisjust in: The Long Wharf Theatre, which has done two Steve Martin plays in recent seasons, has been given the opportunity to world-premiere Martin’s latest work, Meteor Shower. The show, […]
Midsummer Based on A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the plays of William Shakespeare. Adapted by Rachel Carpman and Sara Holdren. Directed by Holdren. Scenic Design by Christopher Thompson and Claire […]
There’s a lot of sex talk in the Humana plays this year. I liked it best in Erin Courtney’s I Will Be Gone, where the banter and come-ons and physical […]
I’m less interested in the specific dramaturgical problems of Colman Domingo’s Dot as a play than I am in how it’s being received here at Humana. This festival is a […]
Blew into the Humana festival of the Actors Theatre of Louisville in Kentucky yesterday and caught two shows thus far, with three more today and two tomorrow yet to come. […]
The Yale Rep has announced its next season, three days earlier than it did last year. Just like last year, they know the whole line-up up front, with no […]
The Mikado is such a hardy and virulent social satire that it seems it can never be staged without offending someone. That’s a remarkable achievement for a popular operetta […]
I collect audiobook misreadings. I listen keenly for the moments when a reader/performer (or “narrator,” as the genre has it) makes an obvious error in interpretation. Thought I’d found an […]