Theater Jerk Comic Section
More drama comics from those essential syndicated comic strip sites www.gocomics.com and www.dailyink.com. I am an enthusiastic longterm subscriber to both GoComics and Daily Ink, and recommend you go explore […]
The Owners Review
Owners Through November 16 at the Yale Repertory Theatre, corner of York and Chapel streets, New Haven. (203) 432-1234, www.yalerep.org. By Caryl Churchill. Directed by Evan Yionoulis. Scenic Designer: […]
The Radio Hour Review
Radio Hour Through November 2 at the Yale Cabaret, 217 Park Street, New Haven. (203) 432-1566, www.yalecabaret.org. Directed by Paula Bennett. Dramaturg: Helen Jaksch. Scenic Designer: Reid Thompson. Costume Designer: […]
The Visit Review
The Visit Presented by the Yale School of Drama through November 2 at the Iseman Theater, 1156 Chapel Street, New Haven. (203) 432-1234, www.yale By Friedrich Dürrenmatt. Translated by Maurice […]
Westport Reads Mister Roberts on Veterans Day
Westport Country Playhouse knows who’s in its reading of Mister Roberts Nov. 11. The play, adapted in 1948 by Thomas Heggen from his own 1946 novel, is part of WCP’s […]
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” […]
More in The Underpants
A review, by me, of the Long Wharf Theatre production of Steve Martin’s adaptation of Carl Sternheim’s play The Underpants, appeared in Friday’s Hartford Courant. That same review will […]
The Play of Cooking
The church which my family has attended for the last eight years or so, United Church on the Green, is having a “Celebrate the Fall” festival this weekend (Friday from […]
This Town’s Big Enough for the Two of Us: NHTC announces Almost, Maine
New Haven Theater Company, fresh from their romp through Our Town, are embarking on another exercise in chill-in-the-air small-town New England drama: John Cariani’s scenic setting of nine two-person vignettes […]
Most Meaningless Political “Theater” Exchange Ever
From the Oct. 22 episode of the Rachel Maddow show. Rachel Maddow: You’ve been writing about the theater of Obamacare and the theater of the attempted Obamacare shutdown. Did the […]