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University administrator and teacher by day, theater and arts critic by night.

DF CITY PAPER: Coming Up in Philly Theatre (Spring 2014)

Nine upcoming productions in Philly to watch for. (I’ll be seeing and reviewing some of these and more, so keep watching this […]

Am I right that there were three Oscar nominations for BLUE JASMINE? One – Cate Blanchett for Best Actress – is absolutely […]

From the New York Times — Ben Brantley reviews MACHINAL Several friends of mine saw this in previews, and came back raving […]

The best news is it’s not bad – certainly not the train wreck that I feared when the AUGUST film was first […]

THEATRE TALKBACK: IS IT FAIR TO JEER? (NY TIMES, 2 August 2011) In 2011, I wrote this piece, which might be subtitled, […]

(An editorial note — from 2002 through 2006, I wrote a series of short reviews of New York theatre. These took the […]

Oh, it’s just too perfect. At 7:15 on the opening night of Nerds, a musical about Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, PTC […]

Not sure what to make of NEBRASKA. It’s beautifully done, and I found a lot of it moving, and funny, and depressing […]