The Blithe Spirits of Ambridge
The long-running British radio soap opera The Archers indulges its hyperdramatic side once once a year with an upbeat storyline about the travails of mounting the annual village Christmas […]
Dolenz Does Connecticut
Ran an item recently about Connecticut-raised Simpsons scribe Mike Reiss going on Gilbert Gottfried’s podcast and not mentioning that his new play Comedy is Hard was at the Ivoryton Playhouse. Well, […]
The Picasso at the Lapin Agile Follow-Up
Woke up this morning to find that my Hartford Courant review of Picasso at the Lapin Agile (at the Long Wharf) had been retweeted by Steve Martin himself. Happy he […]
The Long Wharf’s new path to new plays
The Long Wharf Theater has posted an article by the theater’s marketing director (and former daily newspaper journalist) Steve Scarpa, “Announcing the Lord/Kubler Fund for New Work.” It states: “Using […]
“Why are they moving those boxes around so much?”
The cool kids at Saturday Night Live apparently find high school just hilarious. Awkward teens have been a staple of the show for its entire four-decade history, going right back […]
Miss Pussycat Speaks! about club-based puppetry
Wrote a preview squib for the Hartford Courant website about the Nov. 24 Quintron & Miss Pussycat show at Cafe Nine. But there’s much more that can be added, thanks […]
Hey, Theater Kids! Comics!
Latest dash of theater-themed comic strips to tape to your green room refrigerators, culled from the invaluable syndicated-strip sites GoComics.com and Comics Kingdom. There’s a LOT of live theater in […]
Play Reading of Lightning & Jellyfish TONIGHT (Sunday Nov. 9)
Come on over to Never Ending Books, 810 State Street, around 6 p.m. tonight (Sunday the 9th). We’re reading Lou Harry’s play Lightning & Jellyfish, a character-driven comedy-tinged drama set in […]
Get to the Point! Monday, Nov. 10 at Cafe Nine: Improv, Prose, and Free Pens
My friend Lou Harry, a theater critic and playwright from Indiana, is in the area for a few days. Monday is the latest of my regular monthly Get to […]
Angelique Kidjo is a Visionary Leader, Sez Arts & Ideas
The International Festival of Arts & Ideas, which likes to keep the excitement up year-round, though its main event lasts for a fortnight in June, bestows a “Visionary Leadership Award” […]