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 […]
Ambridge Community Theater Auditions
Did an item earlier on BBC Radio 4 Extra, which is celebrating the National Theatre’s 50th anniversary with a series of broadcasts of some of the theater’s most important productions. […]
New Haven Theater Jerk Comics Section
When I’m not reading plays or theater bios, I’m reading the syndicated comic strip sites gocomics.com and dailyink.com. I like to share the theater-themed offerings on those fine sites with […]
By fountain clear, or spangled starlight sheen
Some see Midsummer Night’s Dream as a light comedy. Other imagine it a dark play in a shadowy forest. Others see it as a black perfumey candle for the […]