2015

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 […]

Anything Ol' Willie Said

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

Hitting Their Marks

  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 […]

Gilpins in Hand

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 […]

"It's called a soliloquy, genius!"

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 […]

The Playwright's the Thing

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 […]

In Awe of Scott Woodside

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 […]