“Speak, Mephistophilis, what means this show?”
I’m a Doctor Faustus freak. Two fun manifestations of the character I’ve found recently: Felix Faust, the DC supervillain version of the Marlowe character, has been a key player in […]
Oh, They Will Rock Us, Will They?
To some it’s a buddy, making a big noise. To others, it’s a bloody-faced big disgrace. We shall see, We Will Rock You, we shall see. It goes without saying […]
“Did you not name a tempest, a birth, and death?”
It is my birth-day: I had thought to have held it poor. —Antony and Cleopatra, Act 3 Scene 8. If you think Shakespeare was Shakespeare, then you might have an […]
Athol Fugard by the Book
I’m the kind of person who, when invited into someone’s home, will unabashedly stare at their bookshelves. I’ll browse books for as long as it takes to get a sense […]
Dahl’s Boston
Francis W. Dahl was a cartoonist for the Boston Herald Traveler from 1930 well into the 1950s. He died in ’73. When my family moved to the Boston area in […]
Yale’s Theater Growing Pains
I can’t imagine that there are many schools like Yale, where there are so many separate undergraduate drama groups and independent productions that an umbrella organization, with an elected board, […]
Dramatarchie
I’ve read this comic. The satires are ostensibly of movies, but of course any boxing drama cliches derive from Odets’ Golden Boy, and the legend of Caesar and Cleopatra were […]
Steve Martin: Different coast, different Edelstein, new musical
Steve Martin is enjoying his own theatrical renaissance. In Connecticut alone, his play The Underpants was given a stretchy new production by director Gordon Edelstein. The co-production played two Connecticut […]
Word to the Wise
Aaron Jafferis, the New Haven-based playwright and hip-hop poet, helped foment THE WORD: A Citywide Youth Poetry Jam where the youth in question are middle-school students at Columbus Family Academy […]
The A New Saint for a New World Review
Through April 19 at the Yale Cabaret, 217 Park St., New Haven. (203) 43201566, www.yalecabaret.org By Lee Ryan Campbell. Direted by Sara Holdren. Dramaturg: Helen Jaksch. Set: Jean Kim, Izmir […]