Arguendo & Ideas: A&I posts its First Amendment discussion
The International Festival of Arts & Ideas has posted a YouTube video of the panel discussion on “The First Amendment in the Spotlight” it held last summer. The talk, held […]
Leaps and Bounds: The 2015 No Boundaries Season is Announced
The Yale Rep recently announced its No Boundaries Series for 2014-15. The three shows chosen are in the best tradition of the series, which, in its own press-release words, “explores […]
Archie, Fred Astep and “Some Star”
I love Archie Comics’ whimsical view of celebrity.
Reiss Pieces
Realizing that I was going to miss the world premiere of Mike Reiss’s new comedy Comedy Is Hard at the Ivoryton Playhouse (it closed a couple of weeks ago), I […]
The Goodspeed 2015 Season: Bromance Is In the Air
As it winds down its current season with the simultaneous runs of Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn and the new musical Circus in Winter, and as it begins to transition from […]
Theater Book: Cosby—His Life and Times
Cosby—His Life and Times By Mark Whitaker (Simon & Schuster, 2014) Mark Whitaker writes the biggest Bill Cosby biography yet, and what happens? The book (which is as close to […]
Theater book: Sammy Davis Jr.—A Personal Journey With My Father
Sammy Davis Jr.—A Personal Journey With My Father By Tracey Davis and Nina Bunche Pierce Where Sammy Davis Jr.’s own memoirs can get wordy and obtuse, Tracey Davis’ big photo […]
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 […]
Twelve Stage Plays That Became TV Series
The new TV comedy series Selfie, starring the woman who played Amy Pond on Doctor Who, is loosely based on George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion (and by extension its more-popular musical […]
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 […]