March 2012
4 posts
Beelzebub Has a Devil Put Aside For Me
My review of the CSC’s production of Brecht’s Galileois now up at The American Conservative website. Check it out!
New Double-Feature-Feature
Over at my other blog I’ve started a new feature: the weekly double-feature, two great movies that you wouldn’t think go together, but that I argue do. This week: “The Philadelphia Story” and “Blue Valentine.” Check it out.
Stratford's Torch Has Been Passed
Regular readers know that my wife and I are long time patrons of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, a landmark institution in the history of classical theatre and a key vehicle for the continuation of the classical tradition. Stratford just announced that Antoni Cimolino - the ultimate insider, having grown up professionally at Stratford from actor, to director, to Executive Director, to General...
#SeussSpeare
This is really too good. Highlights:
“Peaseblossom and Mustardseed, bring me some brew!” said the Ass on the Grass to Thing One and Thing Two.
I do not bite my thumb at you. I bite my thumb, though. Yes, I do!
I sat there with Juliet./We sat there, we two,/And I said, ‘How I wish/I were no Montague.’
Oh look! Here comes Malvolio! Those yellow stockings have...
