Catching Up on Tonys
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Not that they’ve sent out a press release about it or anything, but Long Wharf Theatre has announced its 2014-15 season. It’s right there on their website. [Update: Less than […]
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 […]
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 […]
Steve Martin is enjoying his own theatrical renaissance. In Connecticut alone, his play The Underpants was given a stretchy new production by director Gordon Edelstein. The co-production played two Connecticut […]
I’ve got another (the 17th!) of my Get to the Point! storytelling/spoken word/music/theater/what-have-you events at Cafe Nine tonight. 8 p.m., 250 State St., New Haven. (203) 789-8281, www.cafenine.com. No cover […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]