New Year’s Eve Ensler
Eve Ensler’s Vagina Monologues turns 19 this year. It remains a touchstone of her career and has become iconic of a certain type of political theater—the intimate, personalized, humor-laden conversational […]
Eve Ensler’s Vagina Monologues turns 19 this year. It remains a touchstone of her career and has become iconic of a certain type of political theater—the intimate, personalized, humor-laden conversational […]
This latest Shakespearean Riverdale moment was found in a lovingly rendered tribute to longtime Archie scribe Frank Doyle, at http://zvbxrpl.blogspot.com/2005/11/frank-doyle-archies-comic.html
Samuel Clemens, on his days as a newspaper reporter for the Morning Call in San Francisco in the 1860s: By nine in the morning I had to be [at […]
Yet it is not (it seems to me) by Painting that Photography touches art, but by Theater. Niepce and Daguerre are always put at the origin of Photography (even if […]
The Script in Hand reading series at Westport Country Playhouses always have surprising cast announcements. Sometimes it’s an unexpected big name. Sometimes it’s a someone you thought was dead or […]
From “What Would Batman Do?,” by J. Torres (writer), Matthew Clark (penciller), Wade von Grawbadger (inker), Ulises Arreola & Carrie Strachan (colorists) and Deron Bennett (letterer), found in the newly […]
A Vincent D’Onofrio monologue about how he’ll never play his dream role, Blanche DuBois in Streetcar, is part of a new collaboration the actor’s done with composer Dana Lynn. The […]
There’s a construct, commonly used in obituaries and “Critic’s Pick” blurbs, that drives me nuts. I heard a good (bad?) example last week on a rerun of a 2006 BBC radio […]
Long Wharf Theatre has a quiz about its 50th anniversary in its current program book, listing 14 famous playwrights from Shakespeare to Paula Vogel who’ve each had more than one […]
I’ve been listening to what may be the worst-read audiobook I’ve ever heard. Worst professionally narrated audiobook, I should qualify. Any audiobook junkie (and we are legion) has encountered severe […]