Poked with a Sharp Styx
Parodies of modern musical theater usually revolve the same one old joke—the unlikeliness or inappropriateness of certain material being put to music. The Simpsons is the standardbearer of such parodies, […]
Theater Books from Other Realms: Ray Davies’ Americana
In Ray Davies’ new book Americana, his first published memoir since X-Ray in 2007, we learn a bit about some of the theater projects he developed, both as a solo […]
The late Lou Reed, man of the theater
Theater types should be grieving as openly as rock fans are at the death of Lou Reed. Reed was part of the Warhol Factory scene which formalized and popularized “happenings” […]