Hitting Their Marks
Samuel Clemens, on his days as a newspaper reporter for the Morning Call in San Francisco in the 1860s: By nine in the morning I had to be [at […]
Theatre Barthes
Yet it is not (it seems to me) by Painting that Photography touches art, but by Theater. Niepce and Daguerre are always put at the origin of Photography (even if […]
“Few People Recognize…”
There’s a construct, commonly used in obituaries and “Critic’s Pick” blurbs, that drives me nuts. I heard a good (bad?) example last week on a rerun of a 2006 BBC radio […]
Wasn’t 2014 Loverly?
The announced 2014 Broadway revival of My Fair Lady (co-produced by Clive Davis and the Nederlander organization, directed by Bartlett Sher, with Colin Firth and then Ralph Fiennes mentioned as […]
Arthur Laurents Being Direct
Mainly on Directing—Gypsy, West Side Story and Other Musicals By Arthur Laurents (Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, 2014) Arthur Laurents did so much for so long that it took two […]
Nasty bit of swaddlin’
From Peter Cook & Dudley Moore’s “Good Evening.” Happy Christmas to all our readers.
They Wrote, They Drank (in Connecticut)
Be always drunken. Nothing else matters: that is the only question. If you would not feel the horrible burden of Time weighing on your shoulders and crushing you to […]
Where Else?
A key to where some of my other theater writings have surfaced lately: My six-page feature on the impending 85th anniversary of the Bushnell performing arts center in Hartford, for […]
The Long Wharf’s new path to new plays
The Long Wharf Theater has posted an article by the theater’s marketing director (and former daily newspaper journalist) Steve Scarpa, “Announcing the Lord/Kubler Fund for New Work.” It states: “Using […]
“Why are they moving those boxes around so much?”
The cool kids at Saturday Night Live apparently find high school just hilarious. Awkward teens have been a staple of the show for its entire four-decade history, going right back […]