to find a link to this cool article by Paige Williams I read in the print edition about Bill Arnett, champion of southern black vernacular artists. It's a lengthy article so there's only a l…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 02:10PMTom Stoppard's great play, Arcadia, is 20 this year. Brad Leithauser writes a nice tribute to the play on the New Yorker's website. Here's a quote-- The play presents a sly sermon on the un…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 01:26PMI have a Tumblr? I've been reposting a bunch of cool pictures -- New York School, Patti Smith, and various other things I've found on other pages. I was going to have them repost over here b…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 12:06AMCriticlasm posted this on Facebook and I enjoyed clicking through and reading them all. You can do the same here.
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 12:02AMI enjoyed this article at Lambda Literary the other day. Here's a brief passage-- I pull a book off the shelf, little with an electric orange cover. Lunch Poems, by Frank O’Hara.&nb…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 03:39AMvia Tumblr http://frankswildlunch.tumblr.com/post/56948372714/whaling-museum-and-view-from-rooftop-nantucket
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 01:59AMI'm giving Tumblr a try. If things work I'll be posting here and there too (and over there I'll also slap up pics from Instagram, maybe repost images and other things, we'll see).So, here go…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 12:35AMare we? (See part 1 here and part 2 here.) We're talking about attendance. Isn't that the conundrum? How can we continue to make art at all if we're not participating in a relationship with …
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 02:21PMcongratulating Celebration's revelatory production of The Color Purple for, exactly? (See part 1 here for background.) Is it boring the audience with yet another play about "gay mating …
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 10:07AMI enjoyed some posts last week at Bitter Lemons about Celebration Theatre's recent hit production of The Color Purple. Most incendiary among the writing and comments was the suggestion&…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 08:24PMCheck this out--Venus de Mars has been a longtime fixture in the Twin Cities music scene, producing seven original albums over the past two decades. Known for provocative stage shows that in…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 03:51PMto mull all this Fringe stuff over with my blogger hat on. (See part 1 here, part 2 here, part 3 here, and part 4 here.) When I was a producer all I wanted to do was…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 08:54PMor media at all, right? That's my first response, anyway. (See part 1 here, part 2 here, and part 3 here.)And I don't just mean as an artist, either, although I think that's a healthy …
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 04:09PMPlaybill has a fun article about playwrights attacking critics. The whole thing is worth reading but I like the writing at the end quite a bit.In the best of all possible worlds, added [Time…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 02:00PMrecently on Bitter Lemons asking if it's possible to be friends with someone whose show you review. (Part 1here, and part 2 here.) Bob actually writes for Examiner.com and is a critic, so we…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 10:02AMafter seeing Fringe shows, I was confronted with a rating system with three choices: "Loved," "Liked," or "Not my thing." (See here for part 1 of this post.)This don't allow much…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 04:40PMOkay, finally back with some more writing about my experiences with the Hollywood Fringe. It's going to turn into some long, multi-post meanderings; I hope you'll stick with me. There …
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 10:33AML.A.-based writer/director/professor Holly L. Derr just posted some thoughts about our show on her blog today. She mixed it up with Neil LaBute a few months ago in the comments of a critique…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 07:18PMI added some posts I like to my "Best of" links to the left. Check em out if you like.
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 12:47AMwhere I left off on David Wojnarowicz's bio, Fire in the Belly, by Cynthia Carr. I'm still somewhat early on in the book, and she's talking about his "cryptic phase." I had to share this sen…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 02:33AMI'm wrapping up my tenure as first-time Hollywood Fringe producer, and I'm also acutely aware of how I've neglected poor FWL in service of The Miss Julie Dream Project. So I thought I'd writ…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 01:46AMFive more to go. Things went well last night for The Miss Julie Dream Project. I wish I'd taken some pictures of the house and whatnot. It was all such a scramble up until the show started. …
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 05:04PMtoday! Get your tickets here. You can also check our website for more detail. Here are a few of my favorite production photos. All photos by Luke Gattuso. Sasha Harris and Tim Ven…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 03:47AMfeaturing all nine collaborating writers on The Miss Julie Dream Project and listen to us try to summarize the plot of Miss Julie.First performance is this Tuesday. Get your tickets here. TH…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 10:20AMfor The Miss Julie Dream Project.THE MISS JULIE DREAM PROJECT: FELL-SWOOP-NOTES EDITIONMISS JULIE: THE PLOTThe plot of Miss Julie is simple. To put it as bluntly as one co-writer Samm Hill d…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 01:44AMI'm doing this show? And that we have this crowdfunding campaign going on? And that we're in the 2nd week of rehearsals with a killer cast and it's going to be amazing and I'm insa…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 10:53AMBret Easton Ellis writes in Out about the weird Jason Collins coming-out adoration news cycle. The Gay Man as Magical Elf has been such a tricky part of gay self-patronization in the me…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 03:05AMI wrote about him here last year after seeing his movie, Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man, at Outfest.Lambda Literary has a nice obit-- Taylor Mead, actor, Beat poet, performance art…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 03:20PMI'm reading Frank O'Hara's poems at Gay May Days this weekend! It goes on all weekend, but I show up on Saturday from 5-7pm. It's at Spirit Studio on 2601 Hyperion in Silver Lake.Come check …
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