It’s that time of year again. No, not the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. The Great Give, which seeks your online donations to specific area non-profits during a mammoth 36-hour fundraising […]

Today is the anniversary of the Sept. 30, 1955, death of James Dean. Commentators tend to express amazement at how brief his career was—four credited roles in movies, a few […]

Reimagining A Raisin in the Sun Edited by Rebecca Ann Rugg and Harvey Young (Northwestern University Press, 2012) This book appeared last year, in the midst of the Clybourne Park […]

For theatergoers of a certain age (I’m in my 50s), the Sherman Brothers were the musical theater greats who got away. They wrote cohesive multi-song scores for entertainments based on […]

The brand-new issue of Mad Magazine, #523, offers four full pages of “Sergio Aragones Presents a Mad Look at the Theatre.” The esteemed “Mad Marginal” artist Aragones offers ten separate […]

Banned Books Week 2013 ends today. This is the time of year when lovers of the First Amendment and literature compile lists to shame small-minded censors who’ve attempted to remove […]

  When commenting on Republican Texas Senator’s 21-hour non-filibuster on Wednesday, which sought to delay (or just obfuscate) a scheduled Senate vote on Obamacare, one word immediately leaped to the […]

Who, me? I’m waitin’ for a streetcar. —Bugs Bunny, 14 Carrot Rabbit (1951) The Yale Rep’s production of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire began previews last Friday and has […]

As promised, the new co-artistic directors of the Yale Cabaret have figured out the rest of the fall semester offerings for that beloved basement-dwelling student-run theater. Also as promised, the […]

This is a page from Joker’s Daughter #1 (Batman #23.4), which went on sale today. It’s part of an innovative DC comics scheme where nearly all the company’s regular titles […]