The Rest of Me

My Hartford Courant review of La Cage Aux Folles at the Goodspeed Opera House is here. My CTnow preview story about Cirque Eloize at Foxwoods Resort Casino is here. My […]

The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus By Christopher Marlowe. Adapted by Kee-Yoon Nahm, Andrej Visky and Rachel Carpman. Directed by Visky. Scenes Design and Puppet Design by Claire De […]

Non-Theater Theater Book of the Week

Frank Jacobs: Five Decades of His Greatest Works (Running Press, 2015) Having bestowed hardcover collections on a host of “Mad’s Greatest Artists,” the magazine finally is getting around to honoring […]

The Saint Sees It Through

The first spoken lines of the first episode of The Saint TV series in 1962, starring Roger Moore as Simon Templar: Simon: Thank heavens for English theater bars. We’ve had […]

The Employee of the Year Review

Employee of the Year Created by 600 Highwaymen. Presented by the International Festival of Arts & Ideas June 20-27 at the Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven. Closed. 600 Highwaymen doesn’t […]

Carmen de Lavallade ends her autobiographical one-woman show As I Remember It with several lines from “The Song of Mehitabel” by Don Marquis: my youth i shall never forget but […]

Theater Jerk Comics Section

More theater-themed comic strips, culled from the invaluable strip sites GoComics.com and comic kingdom.com, to stick onto your virtual Green Room refrigerator. This week: Steve McGarry’s BioGraphic Bud Blake’s immortal […]

Arts & ideas: some quiet quibbles

I’m such a lover of balanced commentary and critical credibility that–having been roundly knocked out by the fantastic efforts of Taylor Mac, Dan Zanes, Ragamala dance company and Mark Morrison […]