Cover Your Hedwig
Hedwig and the Angry Inch is in previews for its Broadway debut at the Belasco Theatre. I have memories of the original Off Broadway production, and composer Stephen Trask was […]
Wham City in Elm City April 24
More New Haven Theatre Company news: The company’s not heretofore been known for producing events it does not star in itself. But on April 24 NHTC is hosting the Baltimore […]
NHTC to be Shipwrecked! (Again?) May 1-10
New Haven Theatre Company is presenting Shipwrecked! An Entertainment: The Amazing Adventures of Louis De Rougemont (As Told By Himself). We’ve heard this before. We’ve typed that long title […]
Matilda to Materialize at the Shubert
I threw this tidbit into a review for the New Haven Independent weeks ago, but hadn’t yet posted it here. The Shubert Theater in New Haven—which hasn’t yet released its […]
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 […]
The buds of May: 2014 Carlotta Festival Plays Announced
The Yale Rep has announced the slate for its ninth annual Carlotta Festival of New Plays, may 9-16 at the university’s Iseman Theater (1156 Chapel St., New Haven). This is […]
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
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 […]
Get to the Point! 8 p.m. tonight (April 7) at Cafe Nine
I’ve got another (the 17th!) of my Get to the Point! storytelling/spoken word/music/theater/what-have-you events at Cafe Nine tonight. 8 p.m., 250 State St., New Haven. (203) 789-8281, www.cafenine.com. No cover […]