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Monday, August 12, 2013

by Kyle

via Tumblr http://frankswildlunch.tumblr.com/post/58062127123

SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 11:13AM
Saturday, August 10, 2013

I went to the New Yorker online by Kyle

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 02:10PM

The New Yorker Online about Arcadia at 20 by Kyle

Tom 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 01:26PM
Friday, August 9, 2013

Did I mention by Kyle

I 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 12:06AM

Your Logical Fallacy Is by Kyle

Criticlasm 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 12:02AM
Thursday, August 1, 2013

D. Gilson on discovering O'Hara by Kyle

I 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 03:39AM
Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Whaling Museum (and view from rooftop), Nantucket by Kyle

via Tumblr http://frankswildlunch.tumblr.com/post/56948372714/whaling-museum-and-view-from-rooftop-nantucket

SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 01:59AM

FWL of Blogspot, meet FWL of Tumblr by Kyle

I'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 12:35AM
Monday, July 29, 2013

But we're not just talking about the art, by Kyle

are 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 02:21PM

What are we by Kyle

congratulating 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 10:07AM
Sunday, July 28, 2013

Gay theater and pandering by Kyle

I 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 08:24PM
Friday, July 26, 2013

Scary stuff by Kyle

Check 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 03:51PM
Tuesday, July 16, 2013

It's easy for me by Kyle

to 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 08:54PM

Who cares about reviews by Kyle

 or 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 04:09PM

As an aside by Kyle

Playbill 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 02:00PM

Bob Leggett wrote a column by Kyle

recently 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 10:02AM
Monday, July 15, 2013

So when I started writing reviews by Kyle

after 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 04:40PM

More Fringe thoughts by Kyle

Okay, 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 10:33AM
Saturday, July 13, 2013

Holly L. Derr on The Miss Julie Dream Project by Kyle

L.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 07:18PM
Wednesday, July 10, 2013

For kicks by Kyle

I 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 12:47AM
Tuesday, July 9, 2013

I picked up by Kyle

where 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 02:33AM

Fringe thoughts by Kyle

I'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 01:46AM
Wednesday, June 12, 2013

First show down! by Kyle

Five 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 05:04PM
Tuesday, June 11, 2013

The Miss Julie Dream Project starts by Kyle

today! 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 03:47AM
Sunday, June 9, 2013

Check out our trailer by Kyle

featuring 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 10:20AM
Sunday, May 26, 2013

Notes toward a program note by Kyle

for 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 01:44AM
Thursday, May 16, 2013

Did I mention by Kyle

I'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 10:53AM
Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Gay Magical Elves by Kyle

Bret 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 03:05AM
Friday, May 10, 2013

RIP Taylor Mead by Kyle

I 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 03:20PM
Friday, May 3, 2013

Oh, and guess what? by Kyle

I'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 …

SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 01:15AM