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” […]
Actors Wanted for Something on Sunday! Part Two
Hey, my good Midwestern pal Lou Harry—playwright, novelist, theater critic, and Arts Editor for the Indianapolis Business Journal—is visiting New Haven this week. While he’s here, I’m trying to throw together […]
Actors Wanted for Something on Sunday! Part One
Had a lovely phone chat yesterday with a newcomer to our local theater scene, Amber Kelly. She’s an actor/director who’s just moved here from Chicago and has also spent time in […]
New Food Cabaret
I have not been able to attend the Yale Cabaret yet this semester, despite my longtime support for the place and my deep curiosity about all the new works they’re […]