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 […]
More on Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh — and the Quagmire of Literary Estates
When I wrote recently about John Lahr’s marvelous Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh, I didn’t mention one of its odder […]
Opera Review: Dialogues des Carmélites (Caramoor, July 2015)
Dialogues des Carmélites was (to me, at least) a surprising choice for Will Crutchfield’s Caramoor Opera. Poulenc’s masterpiece falls outside what the Festival […]
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 […]
Opera Review: La Favorite at Caramoor (July 2
Last Saturday, I finally made it to the Opera Festival at Caramoor, something I’d long wanted to do, but the timing never […]
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 […]
Annalise & Anna Mae — Why I’m Still Watching How to Get Away with Murder
I didn’t plan to write about How to Get Away with Murder. For a while, I doubted I’d even finish the series, […]
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