DF on the Problem with Family Drama
Family relationships are an essential theme in modern drama. Yet, in my 45-plus years of theatre-going, I can hardly remember a production […]
Listening to Books — Dropped Names by Frank Langella
There are many things in actor Frank Langella’s compulsively readable Dropped Names that grabbed me, and not always in a good way. […]
DF’s Summer TV Diary… or, The Special Pleasures of Bad Television
In the coming weeks, I plan to do a few short reviews of TV shows I’ve been catching up on this summer. Some […]
DF Book Review — John Lahr’s Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
What a daunting biographical subject Tennessee Williams must be! For starters, his oeuvre – surely one of the greatest in American theatre – is also […]
Moon Man Walk Review (Orbiter 3, July 2015)
Though both the play’s title and the name of the fledging theatre company (Orbiter 3, here presenting their inaugural production) evoke space […]
Bitter Homes and Gardens Review (Bearded Ladies, July 2015)
By nature, I’m more contrarian than agrarian. I’d almost always choose indoors over out, and I spend many of my happiest hours […]
Theatre in Los Angeles — An Ode to Oddball Casting
“It’s not a theatre town.” As a kid in Los Angeles, I routinely heard this from pundits and friends. Like so many […]
Listening to Books — Fitzgerald, Parker, & Wilder
I rarely do as much recreational reading as I’d like, and last year I decided to fix that. My inspired idea was […]
Murder for Two (Philadelphia Theatre Company, June 2015)
This little musical, a recent hit off-Broadway, is a chamber-sized murder mystery with a small cast. The character of police detective Marcus […]
DF on “You’ll Never Walk Alone” and Carousel (WRTI Radio)
A week or two ago, I got a call from Meridee Duddleston, a news anchor and reporter at WRTI-FM, a local classical […]
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