24 stories by "99seats"
by 99Seats Spoiler alert: This is a post about Carrie, both the old and the new, so if there are spoilers here...I feel sorry for you. Get out of your house more. Towards the end of the new …
Via the always handy You've Cott Mail comes a point/counterpoint that really highlights why conversations about art, commerce and the generation gap really don't go too far. Emily White, a 2…
I'll admit: on my first read, I was about as miffed by this Carey Perloff article as Lauren Gunderson was. I thought, Really? We're back here again? Didn't we all do this dance, like, two ye…
Polly Carl says everything, ever, right here: Art rises from the unknown and the undiscovered. Sometimes different is better if only because it makes us stop and consider languages and cultu…
Well. So far, the Guthrie hasn't released an official response to the flap about their 2012-13 season, but, as Ben in the comments to my A.D. Excuse Bingo post below pointed out, we did get …
Seats With the flap around the Guthrie's season gathering some steam and generating a bit of press, apparently there will be a statement coming from Joe Dowling and the Guthrie next week. Wh…
I don't think it's possible for me to agree with this more. Seriously. The culture that encourages and celebrates misery, pain and generally awful behavior in artists is one of the more dama…
by 99 Seats This morning I read this at the Onion A.V. Club, and then I read this at Flavorwire. Both pieces look at work that was terribly reviewed in its time, but has since gone on to not…
I find copyright/copyleft issues kinda endlessly fascinating, so I was pretty psyched to read to Isaac's HowlRound piece on it. You should definitely check it out; it's a great, comprehensiv…
by 99 Seats Chuck D famously said that rap is CNN for black people. I do not consider this hyperbole. I'm not a huge rap fan, but one thing that I find constantly interesting about most rap …
All right. L'Affaire Loughlin, as Isaac has so aptly dubbed it, continues apace, with the comment thread approaching 60 comments. Some are thoughtful, some are angry, some are prideful, some…
In the comments to the post below, Scott Walters weighs in: When I read Tom's essay, I knew it would be controversial, and allow a lot of people to thump their breasts in outrage. But it am…
This hit my inbox this morning, both from a friend and in the always useful You've Cott Mail. Oh, boy. Well, as you can imagine, I have some things to say. I left a comment, as...
For various reasons, I have found myself surrounded by 20-somethings of late. I swear I'm not seeking out their company. They just keep popping up. Honest. One way they've shown up in my lif…
by 99 Seats Let's talk about all the good things and the bad things that may be. (Sorry. I had to complete the lyric. It would have killed me forever.) Over at the often-intriguing HowlRound…
by 99 Seats Once more unto the breach, dear friends. Chad Bauman, Marketing Director at the Arena Stage, has written a post detailing the history and importance, once again, of dynamic prici…
by 99 Seats On Twitter yesterday, Tony Adams asked a question I found intriguing: Comic-fans, how does rebooting titles compare with the same plays being redone? Similar impulse? or totally …
by 99 Seats This song is 20 years old. That is all.
by 99 Seats This is pretty scary, weird stuff in and of itself. But that's just part of it. In the ever-evolving world of campaign fundraising, some politicians have stumbled on yet another …
by 99 Seats I should preface this by saying that I think the world of Alli Houseworth. We hung out a bit at the last Arena Stage Convening I was at. She's good people and her Twitter feed is…
by 99 Seats While I didn't do a lot of TV talk this season (because, honestly? TV sucked a lot this past season), my love of Community knows no bounds. In fact, it keeps growing. To aid in t…
by 99 Seats I wasn't at the TCG Conference this year, but I followed a lot of the proceedings online in various things and such. Despite my earlier misgivings, I've slowly but surely succumb…
by 99 Seats With all the stuff I've had going on and the long, low funk that's been hanging over me, I've mostly let the David Mamet stuff slide because...well, yeah, yeah, one of the countr…
by 99 Seats So, yeah. My play at E.S.T. closed on Saturday, after about 16 performances and a couple of weeks of rehearsal. It was a one-act play that I've been working on, on and off, for t…
