I've had this migraine which has been following me around since the weekend so I am not up for a precise detailed review of this performance, but I do want to say ( Read more... )

I thought some people I know might be interested in this new book from Cambridge University Press ( Read more... )

An article on the jig, originally a farce, scandalous dance, or slapstick
http://www.historytoday.com/lucie-skeaping/all-singing-all-dancing

It is always gratifying to realize that one can apply oneself to the appreciation of culture while still getting a full measure of gratuitous sex and violence ( Read more... )

Kes: for those theatrically-inclined friends of mine who may not be acquainted with this artist, I encourage you to check out the Wikipedia article which discusses his career and style ( Read more... )

Alexx and I went to the Central Square Theatre ( Read more... )

the only reason I got today's Google doodle--
"I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this theorem, which this doodle is too small to contain"--
is because I have read Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia" about a hundred times?

Next weekend I am actually going to see a production for the first time at the BCA.

1001 is a play written by Jason Grote which takes its basic structure from _The Arabian Nights, _, but which also weaves in a modern story abou a couple living in New York City, Alan, the man, being Jewish, and his girlfriend, Dahna, being Arabic. Really, though, this is a story about how we use story to make sense of a seemingly insensible world. ( Read more... )

Yesterday Alexx and I went to see the all-male Propeller Theatre Company's performance of "Comedy of Errors" at the Huntington Theatre ( Read more... )

Kes: This is my favorite local Shakespeare company but, sadly, it has one of the least accessible Web sites I've ever experienced, so apologies for not providing more details about where and when the performances are occuring ( Read more... )