Tuesday, October 22, 2013
by 99Seats Spoiler alert: This is a post about Carrie, both the old and the new, so if there are spoilers here...I feel sorry for you. Get out of your house more. Towards the end of the new …
SOURCE: Parabasis at 02:35PMTuesday, June 19, 2012
Via the always handy You've Cott Mail comes a point/counterpoint that really highlights why conversations about art, commerce and the generation gap really don't go too far. Emily White, a 2…
SOURCE: Parabasis at 11:10AMTuesday, June 5, 2012
I'll admit: on my first read, I was about as miffed by this Carey Perloff article as Lauren Gunderson was. I thought, Really? We're back here again? Didn't we all do this dance, like, two ye…
SOURCE: Parabasis at 08:47AMWednesday, April 25, 2012
Polly Carl says everything, ever, right here: Art rises from the unknown and the undiscovered. Sometimes different is better if only because it makes us stop and consider languages and cultu…
SOURCE: Parabasis at 12:02AMTuesday, April 24, 2012
Well. So far, the Guthrie hasn't released an official response to the flap about their 2012-13 season, but, as Ben in the comments to my A.D. Excuse Bingo post below pointed out, we did get …
SOURCE: Parabasis at 11:14AMFriday, April 20, 2012
Seats With the flap around the Guthrie's season gathering some steam and generating a bit of press, apparently there will be a statement coming from Joe Dowling and the Guthrie next week. Wh…
SOURCE: Parabasis at 01:44PMFriday, April 6, 2012
I don't think it's possible for me to agree with this more. Seriously. The culture that encourages and celebrates misery, pain and generally awful behavior in artists is one of the more dama…
SOURCE: Parabasis at 11:10AMFriday, March 23, 2012
by 99 Seats This morning I read this at the Onion A.V. Club, and then I read this at Flavorwire. Both pieces look at work that was terribly reviewed in its time, but has since gone on to not…
SOURCE: Parabasis at 10:59AMFriday, March 16, 2012
I find copyright/copyleft issues kinda endlessly fascinating, so I was pretty psyched to read to Isaac's HowlRound piece on it. You should definitely check it out; it's a great, comprehensiv…
SOURCE: Parabasis at 11:21AMMonday, March 5, 2012
by 99 Seats Chuck D famously said that rap is CNN for black people. I do not consider this hyperbole. I'm not a huge rap fan, but one thing that I find constantly interesting about most rap …
SOURCE: Parabasis at 10:32AMSaturday, January 7, 2012
All right. L'Affaire Loughlin, as Isaac has so aptly dubbed it, continues apace, with the comment thread approaching 60 comments. Some are thoughtful, some are angry, some are prideful, some…
SOURCE: Parabasis at 03:29PMFriday, January 6, 2012
In the comments to the post below, Scott Walters weighs in: When I read Tom's essay, I knew it would be controversial, and allow a lot of people to thump their breasts in outrage. But it am…
SOURCE: Parabasis at 10:15AMThursday, January 5, 2012
This hit my inbox this morning, both from a friend and in the always useful You've Cott Mail. Oh, boy. Well, as you can imagine, I have some things to say. I left a comment, as...
SOURCE: Parabasis at 09:13PMTuesday, November 22, 2011
For various reasons, I have found myself surrounded by 20-somethings of late. I swear I'm not seeking out their company. They just keep popping up. Honest. One way they've shown up in my lif…
SOURCE: Parabasis at 12:25PMTuesday, August 23, 2011
by 99 Seats Let's talk about all the good things and the bad things that may be. (Sorry. I had to complete the lyric. It would have killed me forever.) Over at the often-intriguing HowlRound…
SOURCE: Parabasis at 11:19AMFriday, July 22, 2011
by 99 Seats Once more unto the breach, dear friends. Chad Bauman, Marketing Director at the Arena Stage, has written a post detailing the history and importance, once again, of dynamic prici…
SOURCE: Parabasis at 08:51AMThursday, July 21, 2011
by 99 Seats On Twitter yesterday, Tony Adams asked a question I found intriguing: Comic-fans, how does rebooting titles compare with the same plays being redone? Similar impulse? or totally …
SOURCE: Parabasis at 08:40AMTuesday, June 21, 2011
by 99 Seats This song is 20 years old. That is all.
SOURCE: Parabasis at 03:45PMby 99 Seats This is pretty scary, weird stuff in and of itself. But that's just part of it. In the ever-evolving world of campaign fundraising, some politicians have stumbled on yet another …
SOURCE: Parabasis at 02:59PMby 99 Seats I should preface this by saying that I think the world of Alli Houseworth. We hung out a bit at the last Arena Stage Convening I was at. She's good people and her Twitter feed is…
SOURCE: Parabasis at 11:13AMMonday, June 20, 2011
by 99 Seats While I didn't do a lot of TV talk this season (because, honestly? TV sucked a lot this past season), my love of Community knows no bounds. In fact, it keeps growing. To aid in t…
SOURCE: Parabasis at 01:27PMby 99 Seats I wasn't at the TCG Conference this year, but I followed a lot of the proceedings online in various things and such. Despite my earlier misgivings, I've slowly but surely succumb…
SOURCE: Parabasis at 12:15PMby 99 Seats With all the stuff I've had going on and the long, low funk that's been hanging over me, I've mostly let the David Mamet stuff slide because...well, yeah, yeah, one of the countr…
SOURCE: Parabasis at 11:46AMby 99 Seats So, yeah. My play at E.S.T. closed on Saturday, after about 16 performances and a couple of weeks of rehearsal. It was a one-act play that I've been working on, on and off, for t…
SOURCE: Parabasis at 10:30AM 
