Is Humana Electric?
Blew into the Humana festival of the Actors Theatre of Louisville in Kentucky yesterday and caught two shows thus far, with three more today and two tomorrow yet to come. […]
My Reviews Elsewhere
The Hartford Courant’s usual theater guy, Frank Rizzo, was in New Orleans last week at the American Theatre Critics Association convention, so I got to cover three opening nights in […]
R.I.P. Michael Rush of New Haven Artists’ Theater
Michael Rush died this week of pancreatic cancer. He and I had completely lost touch in recent years, and it’s been over 20 years since he last did any theater in […]
Beckett, Shakespeare and Three World Premieres—The Yale Rep Announces Its 2015-16 Season
The Yale Rep has announced its next season, three days earlier than it did last year. Just like last year, they know the whole line-up up front, with no […]
Mikado Madness
The Mikado is such a hardy and virulent social satire that it seems it can never be staged without offending someone. That’s a remarkable achievement for a popular operetta […]
Twenty First Century
I’ve seen it, but it was in previews, so I will not even pretend to review. But can I just say what a thrill it is that On the Twentieth […]
Meet the New Shows, Same as the Old Shows
OK. Two of the most prominent presentation houses in the state have announced their 2015-16 seasons and neither of them apparently have given a tumble to the tours of If/Then, […]
The Sat Mat Scene
I don’t experience the Sat. mat. scene too often. Those performances are a different world from opening nights. The house for Familiar on Saturday Feb. 7 at 2 p.m. was […]
Familiar?
I reviewed Danai Gurira’s Familiar for the New Haven Independent, here. I was struck by how unabashedly old-fashioned the show’s first act is, and even compared it to You […]
Crude, He Crowed
I collect audiobook misreadings. I listen keenly for the moments when a reader/performer (or “narrator,” as the genre has it) makes an obvious error in interpretation. Thought I’d found an […]