Category: Theatre
Big Apple Dylan
Sometimes things just happen together. The day after Alane and I go to the Big Apple Circus with Jared and Viviane, Jimmy Fallon releases this…
Josette Bushell-Mingo
One of the great joys of my early days in professional theatre was a Blade Runner-esque version of Of Mice and Men with an extraordinary…
Keith Jarret Köln Concert – Ultimate Improv
Reading, Messy by Tim Harford, I came across this story of how for his most famous concert and most successful recording, Keith Jarrett played a broken…
The Value (the Arts Make Money) of Being a Tree by Miranda Colmans
The Value of Being a Tree is a blog post by my friend, Miranda Colmans that neatly summarizes the arguments for state seed funding for…
Mandy Patinkin Speaks for Himself
In a gossipy article on Death and Taxes (http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/204250/11-actors-everyone-hates-to-work-with/?-0) about actors no one likes to work with, all the other stories were rumors from others,…
You Totally Avoid the Whimsy Trap
Q. One thing that impresses me about your work is that you totally avoid the whimsy trap. How do you do that? A. I guess…
Taste of Sunrise by Susan Zeder at Wheelock Family Theatre
Deaf and Hearing Join Together Last night Alane and I saw a Taste of Sunrise at the Wheelock Family Theatre in Boston. It’s a play…
Energy from Twitter
As part of a Twitter-ersation @wethehumanities, I have been thinking, with experts in the field about medieval music, the behavior of scientists and now tonal…
Pushkala Gopal and Unnikrishnan
Another discovery. I have told people for years about the Indian dance company from Tamil Nadu and Kerala that I toured with in the 1980’s,…
Mother Courage and Her Children
As part of my thinking about what I am going to do next, I have gone back and found this stream of photos. I was a…
