willcub: Aah, so that explains all. by Kyle

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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…

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…

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…

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.

O'Hara reading "Ode to Joy" by Kyle

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. …

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

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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…

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 …

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 …

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&…

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…

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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…

For kicks by Kyle

I added some posts I like to my "Best of" links to the left. Check em out if you like.

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…

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…

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. …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…