One of my schlubbier idosyncracies is that I not uncommonly leave shows at intermission. For the most part, this is because it’s very hard for me to suspend disbelief. I’m also prone to vicarious stage fright. Dropped lines, slow set changes, all the blips and bleeps of live theater … they tie me up in […]
Monica Wyche and Dean Poyner, the actress and the playwright, now ply their trades in New York City and, judging from their blogs (Monica’s here, Dean’s here), city life agrees with them. Monica and I did a show together some years ago. She’s excellent. Dean I don’t know so well, but I did attend a […]
I wonder how many small-time holy men are wishing they were him right now. Yesterday, Pastor Terry Jones was obscurity itself. His Gainesville, FL congregation just a slip of a thing. As few as 30, by some counts, as many as 50 by others. Today his name is on the lips of every news anchor […]
