“I was trained as a classical musician, so my approach to theater comes from a different perspective than most playwrights.” So says Mary Lou Newmark in discussing Breathing Room her stunningly beautiful and sensibly subversive work now on stage at the Greenway Court Theatre. Ms. Newmark’s
In the U.S. recently: Pope Francis. Chinese President Xi Jinping. Russian President Vladimir Putin. And a political zombie—yet another threat to shut down the government, this time because radical Republicans want Planned Parenthood defunded. This last one has become really tiresome. John Boehner’s advance-notice resignation staved off
Arms and the Man is one of George Bernard Shaw’s most appealing plays; which is what he intended it to be. Shaw’s first play, Widowers’ House, produced in 1892, was an assault on the practices of London slum lords. His next play, Mrs. Warren’s Profession was
Here you have reviews of two shows The Princes of Kings Road at the Neutra Institute Museum and Gallery, and Café Society at the Odyssey Ensemble Theatre. I suggest you read them jointly as both function in revealing the strengths and flaws of the other. Along
American Falls by Miki Johnson is a lovely and touching piece of writing. It is a work about time and history, the history that was, the history that will be. Seven characters from the small Idaho town of American Falls; A gregarious Billy, “Mound of Clouds,” a Native
Here you have reviews of two shows The Princes of Kings Road at the Neutra Institute Museum and Gallery, and Café Society at the Odyssey Ensemble Theatre. I suggest you read them jointly as both function in revealing the strengths and flaws of the other. Along
Yesss! We’re finally back to our ersatz Survivor season. We’ve endured months of chest pounding and breast beating on the beach, with the contestants attacking each other. Not much else to do, there’s no voting going on for another four months. There has been plenty of spending, which
Post-debate note: The political wind seemed to change at the second debate. So--praise cheeses!--this may be the last Trump-centric column. He’s what’s happening, baby! His poll numbers keep climbing, the TV coverage is non-stop, and the rest of us just want cover our ears and shout
For me, the internet can be like standing in line at the supermarket. Oh, those tabloids! My eye is also drawn to the lurid headlines under the end of an online article, or to the movement in the far right column. And I end up
I always feel a kinship between August Wilson and the ancient Greek playwrights. Like the dramas of Euripides and other Athenian dramatists there are always outside forces at work driving the characters of Wilson’s plays, for the Greeks it was the Gods, for Wilson the interplay
