Tuesday, August 9, 2011
It's a 1st-person profile of one of my favorite Arkansas actors, Natalie Canerday. Here's a good excerpt.
The best acting advice I ever got came from two people. The first was Dr. Rosemary …
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 07:29PMTuesday, August 2, 2011
as a surprise, but a little play that I wrote continues to perform every Saturday night for the next three Saturdays. It's called "3 A.M. in the Morning," and has been going strong almost e…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 08:16PMFriday, July 29, 2011
Bob and I were in one car, Brandy and the Jennys were in another. Parking was going to be a disaster. We were all trying to get to Coachella in time for Amy Winehouse. She was only a litt…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 02:39AMSunday, July 24, 2011
Thursday afternoon I responded to a call for a last-minute replacement for the July occurrence of homo-centric's reading series. I was deciding what to present and reading over one of the t…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 02:59PMWednesday, July 20, 2011
I'm pretty sure you'll get a chance to see this one in some sort of release or on DVD. You should. It's lovely.
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 06:34PMThursday, July 14, 2011
The other San Francisco documentary I saw was Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure, about the underground phenomenon of Peter and Ray, the screaming elderly alcoholics of the Lower Heig…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 10:13PMI usually write about Outfest about this time every year, and I have been seeing a fair amount. I've still got Hit So Hard at the Ford, my third documentary, on schedule for tonight. There…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 09:10PMMonday, June 27, 2011
to Frank O'Hara. Here's the text:Fantasyby Frank O'Hara (1926-1966)(dedicated to the health of Allen Ginsberg)How do you like the music of AdolphDeutsch? I likeit, I like it better than Max…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 07:07PMWednesday, June 22, 2011
conversation, it seems we missed this. The Wicked Stage linked to it and I'm just reading today. Michael Ritchie in conversation with Theresa Rebeck about programming the three theaters of…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 10:59PMtheater fatigue by Saturday night by the time I was seeing my second show of the day, Brewsie and Willie; I have no idea how these TCG people or critics or more hardcore theater junkies than…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 09:42PMSaturday, June 18, 2011
met at the new used bookstore across the street from the Alexandria Hotel downtown last night and I looked through the drama section for cool old hardback editions of plays I wanted to own b…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 05:09PMFriday, June 17, 2011
Charles McNulty's review of The Method Gun in the LATimes. Unless you plan on skipping it, that is. He gives away the whole show -- THE ENTIRE SHOW -- with mild condescension and thin anal…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 12:47PMThursday, June 16, 2011
at RADAR L.A. I have seen Neva (Monday night) and The Method Gun (Tuesday night), both of which were radical and familiar in their ways, and both of which offered a lot to think about. I fo…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 09:28PMThe Method Gun at the Kirk Douglas in Culver City if you can. It's great fun. I'll write more about it in a bit.
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 03:31PMTuesday, June 14, 2011
and I'm seeing lots of it this week. Most of it Saturday. I think I might actually collapse from theatrical exhaustion on that day, but I'm seeing Neva tomorrow night and The Method Gun on…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 12:07AMon Saturday after attending a concert of George Crumb's song cycle, Winds of Destiny, sung by Dawn Upshaw. JW and I really liked the Crumb evening at the Green Umbrella earlier in the seaso…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 12:05AMWednesday, June 8, 2011
is coming up, as you may know. There's a lot to check out, but I'm particularly excited by the following shows--Teatro en el Blanco: NevaThe Company: As you are now, so once were weRude M…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 09:49PMTuesday, June 7, 2011
and link to L.A. lit blog The Elegant Variation a lot back in the early days of this page. I guess its author, Mark Sarvas, is losing his blogging steam. His latest post is from May 31, wr…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 10:38AMgets problematic for me is that Albee's method of defiance indirectly legitimizes everything the establishment insists on. And by establishment I mean critics, taste-makers, literary manage…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 01:53AMMonday, June 6, 2011
one thing worth noting is that he has a far less complicated relationship to class and race in his writing. His milieu is almost exclusively the white upper middle class. One could argue c…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 11:52PMbeen saying this sort of thing for decades, but I do find it interesting that people aren't exactly putting up with it this time (although Bilerico calls it the "most boring controversy ever…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 09:42PMto get to the best 99-seat show I've seen in Los Angeles since I don't know when. I saw House of the Rising Son this weekend; it's a big success on all fronts. It's an unapologetically gay…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 03:31PMWednesday, June 1, 2011
Art in the Streets at the MOCA Geffen Contemporary on Monday, which was more or less a mob scene. It's a giant bombastic mess of a show and is often quite entertaining, too. I didn't reall…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 12:06AMSunday, May 29, 2011
There's a nice profile by Rob Weinert-Kendt in the LATimes on Kate Fodor today. It's on the occasion of a local production of her play, 100 Saints You Should Know. I saw a workshop of the …
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 12:32PMTuesday, May 24, 2011
Pick one of the following:A.B.C.D.For the correct answer, come check out Bedtime Stories this Saturday at Psychic Visions Theatre.
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 05:43PMMonday, May 23, 2011
Playgoer turned me on to this Village Voice article asking several NYC theater folk about the current state of the avant-garde. My favorite quote is from Taylor Mac.The rule and taboo to br…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 01:33PMSunday, May 22, 2011
with Jonathan Richman. I love it when he starts to dance.
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 01:40PMThursday, May 19, 2011
quote from E. Hunter Spreen in her interview on Adam's blog. It's relevant in light of what I posted the other day.There's this idea that if your talent or ability doesn't express itself wh…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 03:20PMTuesday, May 17, 2011
good read this is! Here's a good (but not the best) quote.When the show went to No. 1 in December 1988, ABC sent a chocolate “1” to congratulate me. Guess they figured that would keep t…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 08:16PM 
