2014

Photo Shubertness

If live theater is considered an archaic form of entertainment by, say, film fans, what are we to make of old-fashioned photography where you get to hold the pictures in […]

Applauding the Furniture

I’ve lost the title and issue number this came from, but this is the final page from one of my all-time favorite Archie theater-themed stories. Stan Goldberg is clearly the […]

Realistic Joneses Regionalized

Will Eno’s The Realistic Joneses opened on Broadway last week, at the Lyceum. I wrote two reviews of the play’s world premiere production at the Yale Repertory Theatre in May […]

Taking the Mickey

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I’ve got some memories of seeing Mickey Rooney onstage, but will start with one that’s not even mine. Lewis Stadlen Jr. toured with Mickey Rooney in The Sunshine Boys. Mickey […]

Vogelspiel

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 […]

"This is the fruit of rashness!"

Available from the Unemployed Philosopher’s Guild, that bastion of cultural kitsch. But also readily purchasable at the sales counter of Dava Boutique, 2100 Dixwell Ave., Hamden Connecticut.

I watch CNN Student News every morning with my daughter Sally, who’s being homeschooled this year. On this morning’s edition there’s a question about which play the “All the world’s […]