Since they were contemporaries, I sometimes wonder if Sinclair Lewis and Norman Rockwell hated each other. Lewis dealt so unmercifully with the American ideals that Rockwell glorified. Kingsblood Royal is Lewis’ satire of race relations in middle America, circa WW II. The hypocrites, the climbers, the bigots and bullies. The same stock company of actors […]
When I contacted Clayton Kale last week about publishing a serious UFO piece in Link Magazine, I did so expecting a polite “we appreciate your interest …” boilerplate reply … or no reply at all … or a spam filter erected in my honor. Link, for all its hipness and youthery, still is published by […]
At the top of the season, the best marketing angle for Charles Busch’s Our Leading Lady seemed obvious. The play is about the company of actors who were performing at Ford’s Theatre on the night Lincoln was shot and the star of the show – the eponymous leading lady – is Laura Keene, to be […]
