Friday, March 2, 2012
This is the second of a two-part blog post.
In my previous blog post, I wrote about The Inconvenience’s Hit the Wall. The other noteworthy new work I saw in the early weeks of 2012 was A…
SOURCE: From the Ledge at 05:27PMWednesday, February 29, 2012
This is the first of a two-part blog post.
While some theaters in the city are still going on their merry way with productions of Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams, and, inexplicably, hoary ch…
SOURCE: From the Ledge at 09:24PMFriday, February 24, 2012
If you’ve been following my blog since 2007, you know how I love my Oscars – in the same way that the Manning brothers love Superbowl rings, Paula Deen loves lard, Elton John lov…
SOURCE: From the Ledge at 03:15PMFriday, February 17, 2012
I gotta admit I always have a certain level of apprehension whenever I go to see a Hypocrites show. Mind you, it’s not a “walking alone down a dark alley scared of being jumped by an axe…
SOURCE: From the Ledge at 05:28PMWednesday, February 8, 2012
Out of gas – that’s exactly how I feel after a gruelling 2011 hopping around three continents and working non-stop on demanding client projects. I’ve been popping in and out of this …
SOURCE: From the Ledge at 09:01PMWednesday, December 21, 2011
As I said in my previous blog post, I flew lots and lots of miles over three continents in the course of 2011. But when I was in Chicago, I made sure I slid my butt into a theater seat (over…
SOURCE: From the Ledge at 06:19PMSunday, December 18, 2011
And, I’m back! Yes, 2011 has been a bountiful and memorable year, my dear readers, but it has also been quite the frenetic, stressful, distraction-filled year too, so my sincerest apo…
SOURCE: From the Ledge at 11:46AMFriday, November 4, 2011
Whew! The past couple of weeks have been a whirlwind blur of commuting every week to the city of the gateway arch, and pulling in long hours on an intense strategy project. That’s the re…
SOURCE: From the Ledge at 05:47PMFriday, October 14, 2011
Although I love all theater, I have a soft, melty, mushy spot for musical theater (I was once memorably harangued by a neighbor in the hi-rise I used to live in for singing showtunes at nigh…
SOURCE: From the Ledge at 12:37AMThursday, October 6, 2011
With a travel schedule that is, to say the least, brutalizing (anyone want to swap with me on my five-day weekly sojourn to the city of the gateway arch?), it’s been quite a challenge …
SOURCE: From the Ledge at 12:24AMSunday, September 25, 2011
When I was still joylessly participating in the gruelling gay dating circuit (oh so many years ago during the Paleolithic age), one of the criteria in my mental checklist for moving beyond a…
SOURCE: From the Ledge at 05:18PMTuesday, September 13, 2011
Sometimes, Chicago can be a city of theatrical size queens. And no, gutter-dwellers, it’s not what you think. Over the past several years, the city has seen ambitious, grandiose, unapo…
SOURCE: From the Ledge at 07:07PMFriday, September 9, 2011
I’ve seen some of the most memorable Chicago productions of Stephen Sondheim’s masterpieces at Porchlight Music Theatre (Company in 2003, Sweeney Todd in 2004, Assassins in 2007) but I h…
SOURCE: From the Ledge at 09:07PMWednesday, September 7, 2011
When Stephen Sondheim, the mighty deity of the American musical theater, speaks (or writes a letter to the New York Times), the national theatrical eco-system of critics, practitioners, an…
SOURCE: From the Ledge at 02:20PMSaturday, September 3, 2011
Where have I been? Looks like everywhere, except for this blog. August was a blur of 15 hour days for nearly two weeks straight in Arizona trying to get my client project completed, …
SOURCE: From the Ledge at 10:51PMSaturday, August 13, 2011
This week, we’ve been bombarded by the horrifying images of the London riots but in the summer of 2005 we were also confronted by a different set of terrifying images from that city – th…
SOURCE: From the Ledge at 11:19PMMonday, July 25, 2011
No one with even a passing interest in food and restaurants could have missed Chicago’s palpable, almost manic anticipation for the menu that would follow the highly-lauded “Paris 1906�…
SOURCE: From the Ledge at 11:09PMSaturday, July 23, 2011
When I moved to the US from the Philippines for graduate school in the mid-1990s, I never thought I would end up living in Chicago. I’ve visited it before then since I had cousins who li…
SOURCE: From the Ledge at 06:39PMFriday, July 8, 2011
The big theater news of the 2011 summer have centered around the critical and popular success of the world premieres of About Face’s The Homosexuals and the Goodman’s Broadway-bound Chin…
SOURCE: From the Ledge at 07:44PMFriday, July 1, 2011
I can safely say that David Henry Hwang’s Tony-winning M.Butterfly is one of the plays that shaped my love for theater. I saw several local productions when I was growing up in Manila in…
SOURCE: From the Ledge at 07:32PMWednesday, June 22, 2011
As a bona-fide, pink-union-card-emblazoned, goldstar gay, you’d think I would be rushing breathlessly to About Face Theatre’s world premiere of Philip Dawkins’ The Homosexuals. Well,…
SOURCE: From the Ledge at 09:37AMSunday, June 19, 2011
I recently came back from Hong Kong, a city that in my and many of my travel-savvy friends’ opinion is in the top five destinations in the world. It’s a dazzling, vibrant, breathlessly…
SOURCE: From the Ledge at 06:11PMTuesday, June 14, 2011
The one thing I clearly remember about going to see the Danish film The Celebration back in 1999 at the Music Box Theatre was that my friend Niels, who was originally from Copenhagen, kept b…
SOURCE: From the Ledge at 07:50PMWednesday, June 8, 2011
It’s been quite the week since I got back from Hong Kong, jumping back into the corporate fray with the zeal of someone who didn’t just get back from a ten day vacation. I’m bac…
SOURCE: From the Ledge at 11:24PMFriday, May 27, 2011
I’m writing this blog post half way around the world, in Hong Kong, mercifully away from the rain and cold that has caught Chicago in their grip. I don’t get back to the US until after…
SOURCE: From the Ledge at 09:50PMMonday, May 23, 2011
I think it’s fascinating that, unlike other conversations I have had about Chicago restaurants, whether it’s The Girl and The Goat, or Hot Doug’s, or Tac Quick, or Avenues at the Penin…
SOURCE: From the Ledge at 03:53AMFriday, May 13, 2011
My game-to-see-everything theater buddy Joel has told me that if there is one play he won’t ever go to again, it’s Georg Buchner’s unfinished masterpiece of theatrical naturalism Woyze…
SOURCE: From the Ledge at 06:54PMFriday, April 22, 2011
In November of last year, I came back to Manila, where I was born and lived till my early twenties, for the first time after 13 years of living in the United States. It was a joyous, heart…
SOURCE: From the Ledge at 08:09PM 
