Get to the Point! Monday, Nov. 10 at Cafe Nine: Improv, Prose, and Free Pens
My friend Lou Harry, a theater critic and playwright from Indiana, is in the area for a few days. Monday is the latest of my regular monthly Get to […]
Angelique Kidjo is a Visionary Leader, Sez Arts & Ideas
The International Festival of Arts & Ideas, which likes to keep the excitement up year-round, though its main event lasts for a fortnight in June, bestows a “Visionary Leadership Award” […]
Actors Wanted for Something on Sunday! Part Two
Hey, my good Midwestern pal Lou Harry—playwright, novelist, theater critic, and Arts Editor for the Indianapolis Business Journal—is visiting New Haven this week. While he’s here, I’m trying to throw together […]
Actors Wanted for Something on Sunday! Part One
Had a lovely phone chat yesterday with a newcomer to our local theater scene, Amber Kelly. She’s an actor/director who’s just moved here from Chicago and has also spent time in […]
New Food Cabaret
I have not been able to attend the Yale Cabaret yet this semester, despite my longtime support for the place and my deep curiosity about all the new works they’re […]
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 […]