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We're Not Serious
Mar 14, 2010 9:12am
Nearly every blogger I read who has some interest in seeing a constructive next step in the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process seems almost giddy with excitement over Netanyahu's recent decision to okay a bunch of new settlements right as Joe Biden......
Ways Matthew Murray Goes Wrong
Mar 11, 2010 8:59pm
I was going to write a big long post about this, but I've been driving for close to nine hours today and who honestly has the time? Not me, and not when TalkinBroadway's Matthew Murray has self-evidently ridiculous things to......
Ways We Go Wrong
Mar 11, 2010 10:14am
By Guest Blogger Guy Yedwab I bought the book Why We Make Mistakes recently, because I have long felt that it is important to understand the limitations of the brain. For two reasons: one, because the ways in which our......
Tea Party
Mar 10, 2010 5:18pm
By Guest Blogger Guy Yedwab When I was in high school, I tried my hand at a little prognostication. I can't fully remember the context, but in a spat of bitterness about the ineffectiveness of Democrats, I hypothesized that if......
A New Gospel of Wealth
Mar 9, 2010 11:30pm
By Guest Blogger Guy Yedwab (Hello, Parabasisites! I'm Guy, another guest-blogger brought in by Isaac to fill in while he's gone. I hope he's doing well... now that my company's production of Hamlet is fully struck, I'm here to fulfill......
No, Seriously...
Mar 9, 2010 7:26am
How many times does an anti-gay Republican have to stumble out of the closet before America gets the f*ing point?...
Plumbing the Depths
Mar 8, 2010 9:56pm
By Guest Blogger Ben Owen I'm filled with schadenfreude that The Hurt Locker won Best Picture over that Ferngully remake. But I assume that Hollywood won't take this as a sign that 3-D shouldn't be the future. I'm kind of......
Monique's Acceptance Speech
Mar 8, 2010 4:45pm
So what did Monique mean about the "politics" of Oscar? Let Alyssa Rosenberg and Lotoya Peterson explain it all to you, in ways that intersect with our diversity conversations rather nicely (note: this was from before the Oscars):...
Your Eyes Sparkle Like the Charles River
Mar 7, 2010 2:34pm
By Guest Blogger Ben Owen When I tell people I love Boston, I really mean that I love Boston’s northern suburbs, Cambridge and Somerville. And yet when I come to describing what it is that I love about them, I......
Feeling Nostalgic (Two Brief Complains)
Mar 7, 2010 6:43am
By Regular Blogger Isaac Butler Sorry to bust in with a little negativity on your Sunday, but I promise to keep this short... (1) Jesse Oxfeld really makes me miss John Heilpern. It's not just that the reviews read like......
Life in Hell
Mar 6, 2010 12:01pm
By Guest Blogger Ben Owen Isaac asked me to blog about comics. So with apologies for disrupting the flow of the blog in terms of theme and style (I’m now wishing that, like Samuel and Jonathan, I’d had the foresight......
Decisions, decisions.
Mar 5, 2010 4:52pm
by Guest-Blogger Jonathan Spector Dear Sam (and parabasites), I'm on the verge of making a fairly substantial decision, and wondering if there's any major career related thing that you've ever regretted doing. I find that I almost never regret the......
You Say You Want a New Play?
Mar 5, 2010 4:26pm
By Regular Blogger Isaac Butler Well, boy has Gus Schulenberg got a new play for you! You see, Gus runs a company called Flux. Flux had Archibald MacLeish's play J.B. slated for their season. You might remember J.B.... it's MacLeish's......
Oh, and did you know....
Mar 5, 2010 12:29am
by Guest blogger cgeye ... that Samuel French and other play publishers are participating in the Google Books settlement? That means if you type in a play title or author in Google Books, you'll find more scanned work than there......
A literary office's nuclear option
Mar 5, 2010 12:22am
by Guest blogger cgeye Reading about the pushme-pullyou relationship between playwrights and artistic directors in discussions of Outrageous Fortune, it came to me that I've seen this pattern before. It was in front of me, the whole time.... Managers refusing......
A very informal survey...
Mar 3, 2010 10:13pm
by Guest blogger cgeye Due to local theatrical turbulence, it's high time I ask these questions: For the theatres you follow, how visible are these theatres' board members? Do you know their names? Do you know the chairmen or women?......
Everybody thinks...
Mar 3, 2010 4:23pm
by Guest Blogger Jonathan Spector Sam, I didn't know there was a Pliny the Younger. How does it compare? The last time I was at Toronado I was in pretty bad shape after only three Pliny the Elders. I can't......
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