2014

Theater Book: The Cinderella Killer

The Cinderella Killer—A Charles Paris mystery By Simon Brett (Severn House, 2014) It’s just wonderful that Simon Brett is writing Charles Paris mysteries again, after forsaking the character for so […]

You Can Take It With Yale

  I was corresponding recently with a friend who’d worked at the Yale Rep in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s. He’d had the same reaction I did to the […]

The Good Wife Game

One reason I love watching The Good Wife is that it’s filmed in New York and casts theater actors in small parts. (The same can be said for all the […]

Run That Baby

  You never monkey with the truth. —Ben Bradlee, editor of the Washington Post To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no […]

Bad Metaphor Theater

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Most of the emails I get come from either theater companies, local news outlets or national political causes. So imagine my reaction when they all blended together into this single […]

The Arcadia Review

Arcadia Produced by the Yale Repertory Theatre, through Oct. 25 at the Yale University Theater, 222 York St., New Haven. (203) 432-1234, http://www.yalerep.org By Tom Stoppard. Directed by James Bundy. […]

Arcadia Camera

Looking through the press photo choices for the Yale Rep’s production of Arcadia, I was disappointed but not surprised to see that there were no pictures that showed off the […]

The most important show in November

The great Lewis Black—a 1977 graduate of the playwriting program at the Yale School of Drama—has helped produce a wonderful video (below, or here) for the ACLU. It lambastes legislators […]