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"There is an art in taking the whiplash of suffering full in the face, an art you must learn. Let each single attack exhaust itself; pain always makes single attacks, so that its bite may be…
Matthew López has been engaged by Searchlight Pictures to write a screen adaptation of Leading Men, the Christopher Castellani novel about Williams and his longtime lover Frank Merlo. LÅ
From 2015:
Milwaukee contains five buildings designed by Wright, most of them private residences. More often than not, his houses were commissioned by people who had a fair amount of money t…
It seems you can't keep England's antic, anarchic holiday tradition down, even as disease stalks the land. Chris Wiegand talks to producers who are putting their pantos on film and in car pa…
"Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of the past."
Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of History
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The form must also meet the content, say critics and scholars. They discuss "an under-theorized element of the discussion on Black theatre: its form. Oftentimes, Black theatre is relegated t…
I miss Hilary and, I expect, always will. I gather that's what happens when you lose a partner in the heartbreakingly unexpected way I did. Just the other day I muttered to myself, "Darling,…
I've written a "Sightings" column for today's Wall Street Journal about the reason why so few regional theater companies are webcasting their shows. Here's an excerpt.
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A scene from A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving:
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"When prosperous the fool trembles for the evil that is to come; in adversity the philosopher smiles for the good that he has had."
Ambrose Bierce, Epigrams
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Says a former theatre student of Baldwin Wallace University's Victoria Bussert, "Theatres have shut down everywhere, and this woman is just like, 'Fuck that! We're doing a play, we're doing …
A recent New Jersey show demonstrates that, if the perfect factors come together, Equity theatre can happen " though it will be more rare in the winter, certainly. "The whole time we were wo…
"Under the agreement, which is tentatively scheduled to last until Dec. 31, 2021, the two unions agreed that Equity will cover work recorded for digital distribution that replaces, or supple…
In today's Wall Street Journal I review the Irish Rep's webcast revival of Bill Irwin's On Beckett/In Screen. Here's an excerpt.
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Ella Fitzgerald appears as a guest on The Dinah Shore Chevy Show. This episode was originally telecast by NBC on March 8, 1959:
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"I don't know how a man can describe his wife to somebody else unless he dislikes her"there is nothing like dislike to make a character appear vivid"but the very things in a woman that make …
"Complaints by staff members and months of internal conflict have led to the ouster of Mosaic Theater Company Artistic Director Ari Roth. … The end to Roth's tenure at the company he set u…
"What baffles me is the comfort people find in the idea that somebody dealt this mess. Blind and meaningless chance seems to me so much more congenial"or at least less horrible. Prove to me …
"I shouldn't have been so surprised. Art has played a major role in bringing this once poor and isolated country into the international arena, and the government subsidizes culture in a big …
Reading Michael Riedel has long been mandatory for theater insiders. They may complain about his journalistic practices, his tendency to sensationalize and distort, his refusal to let a fair…
The musical, which was to be one of the centerpieces of the Sydney Festival in January, was postponed and withdrawn from the festival by the producer after a trans non-binary actor launched …
Walter Brennan is the guest on "This Is Your Life." This episode was originally telecast by NBC on March 30, 1955:
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"But that's medicine, the art of prolonging disease."
"Jesus," I said, with a laugh. "Why would anybody want to prolong it?"
"In order to postpone grief."
Peter De Vries, The Blood of the…
Heidi Schreck's What the Constitution Means to Me has become "the grandmother of [a] genre" that includes, just this fall, Kristina Wong for Public Office (about Wong's run for a local commi…
This year, the number of work weeks has plummeted by 65 percent to about 92,000 " including nearly three months of normal work before the shutdown. The lack of work weeks is pushing some…
