Beatle the Fifth

These Paper Bullets! (at Yale Rep through April 5) ain’t the only Shakespeare/Beatles blend out in the world right now. Towards the end of the graphic non-fiction narrative The Fifth […]

Jerry Lewis That Time

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Jerry Lewis is up to his old tricks. You know, the cane-throwing trick. The glass in the mouth trick. And the withering glare and obnoxious comments which repel some of […]

A Day in the Death of Will Gardner

“Well, that’s the Good Wife. He’s dead. Josh Charles, ladies and gentlemen.” That’s how David Letterman put it Monday when Josh Charles appeared on Late Night.   Charles’ Good Wife […]

Bard Wars

C3PO: But wait, where do you go? Pray, do come back! Most typical this is. O wretched fate, To be deserted by my friends most dear. These human beings care […]

Green room

“And you can…” “Um, I know a lot of people’s last words.” It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations. “Example?” “I like […]

Whole Lotta Shakespeare Goin’ On

The Westport Country Playhouse has finally announced what’s filling the June slot on its 2014 season: Sing for Your Shakespeare, a new revue of songs from stage musicals and other […]

An extra Hartbeat

Hartbeat Ensemble—Connecticut’s version of the San Francisco Mime Troupe, exploring social issues through a variety of entertaining styles—has a Youth Play Institute. The program’s teenaged playwriting interns learn how to […]

More Theater Beatles

  These Papers Bullets! (at the Yale Repertory through April 5; see review here, more reviewy stuff here, preview here) is the latest, but far from the first Fab Four-fueled […]