Support or enjoy? (with a little Fringe thrown in)
Colin's post about supporting theater was fun for me because it took me back to the waning days of the theater blogosphere -- or "theatrosphere," as Parabasis' Isaac Butler used to call it, …
Colin's post about supporting theater was fun for me because it took me back to the waning days of the theater blogosphere -- or "theatrosphere," as Parabasis' Isaac Butler used to call it, …
Hey y'all, The Last Temptation of Paula Deen is going great! We've got three more performances; next one is this Sunday at 4pm. Get tickets here.Here are some pics by Luke Gattuso.
The Last Temptation of Paula Deen starts tomorrow, y'all. Get yo'selves a ticket.Paula Deen has been really generous to our writing process over the past few months. When I first started thi…
for The Last Temptation of Paula Deen, which starts on June 6 at 8pm. Get your tickets here.I'm trying to use Instagram somewhat regularly for the first time, so here are a couple of fun pic…
on our crowdfunding campaign for The Last Temptation of Paula Deen, which means I can actually update this page for a change. I suppose I could've done it before, but I figured I'd leave it …
Fell Swoop's new show, The Last Temptation of Paula Deen, is registered for the 2014 Hollywood Fringe! We're going to be at The Lounge Theatre on Santa Monica Blvd, and we're going to be a h…
is getting excited about great actresses in one-scene roles in overpraised movies. Tilda Swinton is marvelous in The Grand Budapest Hotel.I actually admired the movie and could probably go o…
Finally got to 12 Years a Slave. My favorite part was Alfre Woodard's scene. I admired the movie, but her performance was the only part of it that brought tears to my eyes.Also saw something…
After my first point about The Wooster Group's new show (for the record, I'm generally a fan and admiring of their work and history), I was going to post in the comments of Bitter …
shortly after it opened. I found its jokey Native American drag and flat, affected speech unsettling, but I didn't think much more about the show after. I've been a fan of Troilus and Cressi…
since I updated this. I went to New York. Russia invaded Ukraine. Matthew McConaughey won an Oscar. The world moves too fast, you know.Hopefully more soon.
And we're throwing a party on March 5. Come join us as we step away from our devices for a night of telling Tales from the Internet!Buy advance tickets at Brown Paper Tickets. Please join us…
twice in the theater. The first time was with great excitement and determination to get to the 70 millimeter, Cinerama Dome experience. I walked out of the movie baffled, frustrated, and a l…
I have every intention of writing on two very different projects, seeing at least two movies and maybe a play on top of it, working on Fell Swoop's Fringe 2014 project, doing some volunteer …
made a movie and it opened today. It's called At Middleton and it's lovely. I am going to try to get to it this weekend and all of you should too. It's playing at Sundance Theatres in West H…
and just watched the first episode of the new season. Kim Gordon and Richard E. Grant are guest stars. Rita Wilson is back. And Natalia gets her eff you moment to Adam. I am very happy with …
this. You should too.
I turned on HBO over the weekend so I could watch Looking. I want to write about it, but with only one episode in I can't say much more about it except that I think it looks very promising. …
which surely owes Woody Allen (or Mia and Ronan Farrow) a thank-you for what I think is going to be a little break from the internet morality police. But that's a different post, I…
I finally focused enough yesterday on my new play, Hope House, to get some work done and feel like I'm starting some momentum on it. Of course today I didn't work on it at all, so there's th…
about the HBO documentary Valentine Road, and never posted it. I was looking over old posts tonight and looked at it again; the movie really upset me at the time and I felt strange about pos…
is perfect, because that movie is all about his face. Also, is the mustache an homage to Lars and the Real Girl?
(See here for the full story.)"It's accidental. I was not in any way thinking of that," [Woody Allen] said. "The two things that come up all the time that I was never thinking of were anythi…
Or, if you prefer my obnoxious subtitle, "The Straight Gaze."See here for part I.One element I found a little strange as I watched was the lack of any real sense of POV for the main gay play…
on Saturday at Cinefamily's double feature with Cruising. We've seen Cruising on DVD so didn't stay, although I did want to a little, just to see it with an audience. I probably would'v…