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  I had disconnected our TV antenna and so didn’t watch the Tonys last night. Instead, I followed the Facebook posts and tweets from critic friends such as Lou Harry […]

Good Wife Act 5

Now that Michael Cerveris has done a few episodes as “Mr. State’s Attorney,” I think The Good Wife has a higher Broadway quotient than even Smash did. We’re talking Nathan […]

The We Will Rock You Review

I didn’t expect to be an, ahem, champion of this much-maligned jukebox musical. I remember being in England when it first opened 12 years ago and being alarmed at what […]

Dramatarchie

I’ve read this comic. The satires are ostensibly of movies, but of course any boxing drama cliches derive from Odets’ Golden Boy, and the legend of Caesar and Cleopatra were […]

Vogelspiel

Paula Vogel’s speaking at 8 p.m. on Monday, April 14 at Wesleyan University’s Memorial Chapel. She’s had an interesting decade or so. In 2008 she stopped teaching regularly at Brown […]

The The Mystery Boy Review

I had the unusual, serendipitous experience tonight of seeing a bunch of middle school students perform a grown-up musical, then seeing a bunch of young adults create a play out […]

Fugard Closing In on Himself

My review of The Shadow of a Hummingbird, the new play by Athol Fugard starring Athol Fugard, is on the New Haven Independent site, here. I have enduring memories of […]