Grenfell Undistilled
Another BBC broadcast post. Should make this a regular feature. I certainly listen to enough of ‘em. Longtime Long Wharf theatergoers might remember a curious mainstage show in 1990 called […]
Another BBC broadcast post. Should make this a regular feature. I certainly listen to enough of ‘em. Longtime Long Wharf theatergoers might remember a curious mainstage show in 1990 called […]
I covered Tom Stoppard’s talk at Yale Monday evening for the New Haven Independent, here. It’s a lengthy piece, greatly enhanced by the photography of Phil Rosenthal (whose photos also […]
Here’s how they’re trying to save Meet the Press: with theater criticism. Excerpts from the transcript of the long-running news show’s Sept. 7 edition, the first to feature new host […]
It’s a new school year, which means a new artistic director team at the Yale Cabaret. Continuing with a recent tradition, the new folks are announcing the first three shows […]
There was so much to love, and so much to hate, about Joan Rivers that she was the ideal 20th century entertainer. She probably hit her most polarizing point in […]
Here’s an audience-engagement idea I can really get behind. Much better than a singles night in the lobby. You get to bury your nose in a book. Hartford Stage is […]
BBC Radio Four Extra, the online channel that reruns the network’s old drama shows, is currently—woo-hoo!—rebroadcasting Joe Orton’s classic one-act The Ruffian on the Stair. You can listen to the […]
Yale Rep’s announced the cast for its season-opening Arcadia, to be directed by the theater’s artistic director of the past dozen years, James Bundy. The cast list is truly a […]
How I spent my summer vacation: moving ten miles from New Haven to Bethany, Connecticut. The new place has six acres of lawns and woodland, and my theater books will […]