Theater Book: Cosby—His Life and Times
Cosby—His Life and Times By Mark Whitaker (Simon & Schuster, 2014) Mark Whitaker writes the biggest Bill Cosby biography yet, and what happens? The book (which is as close to […]
Theater book: Sammy Davis Jr.—A Personal Journey With My Father
Sammy Davis Jr.—A Personal Journey With My Father By Tracey Davis and Nina Bunche Pierce Where Sammy Davis Jr.’s own memoirs can get wordy and obtuse, Tracey Davis’ big photo […]
Theater Book: The Cinderella Killer
The Cinderella Killer—A Charles Paris mystery By Simon Brett (Severn House, 2014) It’s just wonderful that Simon Brett is writing Charles Paris mysteries again, after forsaking the character for so […]
Twelve Stage Plays That Became TV Series
The new TV comedy series Selfie, starring the woman who played Amy Pond on Doctor Who, is loosely based on George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion (and by extension its more-popular musical […]
You Can Take It With Yale
I was corresponding recently with a friend who’d worked at the Yale Rep in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s. He’d had the same reaction I did to the […]
The Good Wife Game
One reason I love watching The Good Wife is that it’s filmed in New York and casts theater actors in small parts. (The same can be said for all the […]
Run That Baby
You never monkey with the truth. —Ben Bradlee, editor of the Washington Post To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no […]
Bad Metaphor Theater
Most of the emails I get come from either theater companies, local news outlets or national political causes. So imagine my reaction when they all blended together into this single […]
Get to the Point! is back—TONIGHT! (Oct. 13)
My latest Get to the Point! storytelling/reading/playing show is tonight (Monday, Oct. 13) at Cafe Nine. It’s actually a comeback edition, since my family’s recent move to Bethany impeded my […]
The Arcadia Review
Arcadia Produced by the Yale Repertory Theatre, through Oct. 25 at the Yale University Theater, 222 York St., New Haven. (203) 432-1234, http://www.yalerep.org By Tom Stoppard. Directed by James Bundy. […]