Accidental Death of an Anarchist on the Air
There’s a streaming rerun of BBC Radio’s 1992 adaptation of Dario Fo’s Accidental Death of an Anarchist. If you don’t know the play, it’s simply one of the greatest political […]
Flea TV
This is a really heartwarming theater story about how an enterprising New York City video production crew, VisualArtsTV, had an already comprised and cut-rate commercial shoot abruptly cancelled. […]
Ten Snow Shows
There’s a blizzard. Hartford Stage has cancelled its Tuesday performance of Private Lives, but hopes the Wednesday night show will go on as planned. The theater’s also added a performance […]
The Yale Cabaret Announces the Remaining Seven Shows in Its 2015 Spring Seasoner
I apologize (again!) for not attending the Yale Cabaret last semester. Living a few miles out of town and not yet being able to drive a car has […]
Theater MOJO
I love getting my theater news from MOJO—The Music Magazine. It’s an important British rock mag, renowned for its mix of historical articles and reviews of current releases. Recent issues […]
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 […]
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 […]
Theatre Barthes
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 […]
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 […]