Wherefore Archie thou?
Yes, she just said “Archie-O.” Two pages from a rather long Shakespeare-themed story, “The Show Must Go On,” found in Archie’s Funhouse Comics Digest #11 (the latest, February 2015 issue—at […]
Yes, she just said “Archie-O.” Two pages from a rather long Shakespeare-themed story, “The Show Must Go On,” found in Archie’s Funhouse Comics Digest #11 (the latest, February 2015 issue—at […]
Here’s a theatrical dialogue from Antiques Con, the latest wonderful Trash ‘n’ Treasures mystery by Barbara Allan (aka the cosily married writing team of Max Allan Collins and Barbara Collins, both […]
Bohemians—A Graphic History Edited by Paul Buhle and David Berger (Verso, 2014) Here are some of the noted thespians who make the cut for Bohemians: A Graphic History, […]
Becoming Belafonte—Black Artist, Public Radical By Judith E. Smith (University of Texas Press, 2014) This new Harry Belafonte bio by Judith E. Smith an American Studies prof at UMass, contains […]
“Not dead yet,” as they say in Spamalot, one of his final hits. Now that everyone has sounded off on the Nov. 19 death of Mike Nichols, I must say […]
Stephen Dest, the New Haven-based filmmaker whom I originally met through his exploits in local theater, has asked me to tell you all that he is the midst of a […]
From Afterlife With Archie Comics #7, the second chapter of “Betty: R.I.P.” Written by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa with artwork by Francesco Francavilla. Evidence that Gordon Edelstein didn’t go far enough in […]
A key to where some of my other theater writings have surfaced lately: My six-page feature on the impending 85th anniversary of the Bushnell performing arts center in Hartford, for […]
The Art of Asking, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help By Amanda Palmer (Grand Central Publishing, 2014) I tore through Amanda Palmer’s self-help memoir about […]
More theater-themed comic strips, which I found on the invaluable GoComics site, for discriminating aesthetes. This latest batch features Jason Poland’s Robbie and Bobby, Dan Dougherty’s Beardo, Frank Cummings’ Brain […]