Disco Pigs

discopigsPig and Runt, best friend for seventeen years,  live a sort of retro punk lifestyle in Cork (which they call “Pork”), Ireland. They’ve invented their own slang and live in a reality of their own construction. The two knock about town [Read more...]

Nightingale and Finian’s Rainbow

Nightingale with Lynn Redgrave and Finian’s Rainbow

I’m going to a tiny town in Alabama called Florence for most of this coming week, so, with the exception of a column which you’ll see tomorrow,  my next collection of comments and reviews will be a couple of weeks away.  [Read more...]

Catalyst Theater has closed

As reported by Jane Horowitz  in today’s Backstage column, the move from CHAW to the Atlas Theatre had too great an economic impact on the highly regarded Catalyst Theater Company, [Read more...]

Show Boat

showboatFor such an old ship, the Cotton Blossom’s in no danger of sinking. Over the course of eighty years it’s been buoyed by national adoration for what transpired on its decks in 1927. [Read more...]