When Tom Loughlin first posted a lament over the latest Broadway League numbers at his Poor Player blog, I doubt he realized the firestorm he was kindling.Indeed, the comments on that origin…
The Boston Globe confirms that David Wheeler, long-time director at the American Repertory Theater and founder of The Theatre Company of Boston, has died.David was a great fixture on t…
Tom Loughlin, who blogs at A Poor Player, throws out a stark post after reviewing the latest Broadway League and NEA numbers. (83% of Broadway tickets to plays were purchased by Caucas…
Terrence Howard & Anika Noni Rose in Cat on a Hot Tin RoofJohn Lahr, theater critic for The New Yorker, just posted a roundup of the Best Theater of the Year on that publication's Cultur…
1. The Trip"Everything's exhausting when you're past 40."Two British stars take a trip to the North of England together in this Michael Winterbottom project that was edited down f…
In this morning's Boston Globe, an article appeared which has Facebook on fire with condemnation.Apparently, some theater companies are trying to find ways to assimilate the lifestreaming cr…
Actually, that's me as the elusive Lord Somerville. The video was shot and edited by Brad Kelly. That's my voice as well. We made a couple of these for the Somerville Community Access Telev…
Jacob Marley awaits the audience for our 4th Trolley Christmas Carol today., a photo by arthennessey on Flickr.The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond
Ornamental Self-portrait, a photo by arthennessey on Flickr.The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond
Watch live streaming video from occupyboston at livestream.comThe Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond
In case you haven't seen it, yet, playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis wrote an e-mail to the Hartford Courant about seeing the Hartford TheaterWorks production of his play: The Motherfucker With…
If you wandered past Channel 3 on your TV tonight in Somerville you saw the unexpected. And probably laughed! Can you spot the non-actor? This is the closest I'll ever come to being Lorne Mi…
"Where Be Your Jibes Now?" - Hamlet at UC Davis, a photo by arthennessey on Flickr.The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond
Stephen Sondheim isn't as terrified of the internet as Michael Kaiser.Heck, Mr. Sondheim finds a certain optimism in the passion of the online exchanges about theater, even in internet theat…
Scott Walters, over on his Theatre Ideas blog, publishes the first in what he is promising to be a multi-post series called "Occupy Lincoln Center."His first post is a comparison of the inco…
The Flavor Graveyard, a photo by arthennessey on Flickr.On the tour of the Ben and Jerry's Factory they told us that the worst flavor disaster might be Sugar Plum, which was so bad that dist…
Today in the Huffington post we find another lost column by Michael Kaiser's grandfather. It is nice of Mr. Kaiser to type these up for us, as they were probably handwritten before word proc…
What is an arts journalist anyway?Many news outlets have critics who double as arts reporters, but most daily newspapers separate the duties of reviewing and reporting.Of course, the arts be…
Nantucket Harbor, a photo by arthennessey on Flickr.The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond
The film I co-wrote screened at the Houston Comedy Film Festival last night and is on at the the Red Rock Film Festival later this month. Our Kickstarter campaign to raise money to offset t…
My friend Erik Rodenhiser offers his services. Erik is owner of the Griffen Theatre in Salem where I spend most of my waking hours during October. We are coming down to the wire on Hallowee…
Yeah, it's just a little busy today in #Salem. Here's the line outside our show., a photo by arthennessey on Flickr.The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond
Below is a video of the start of the Occupy Boston crackdown. The people being seized are Veterans for Peace, who put themselves between the protesters and the police. The Mirror Up To Nat…
Wedding arrival at the Crane Estate - Castle Hill - Ipswich, MA, a photo by arthennessey on Flickr.The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond
Where I'm at! Our film plays at the Pawtucket Film Festival This Afternoon!, a photo by arthennessey on Flickr.Me at the Pawtucket Vistors Center for the screening of our film at the 12th A…