The Wicked Stage

As the year grinds to an end, I'm particularly hard-pressed to come up with a coherent wrap-up. A lot of it was focused on non-journalis...

Writing about theater doesn't get much better than John Lahr's profile of Pinter and The Homecoming , in the current New Yorker , i...

The awards I started 10 years ago next month are on Wikipedia . As far as memory serves, the entry is correct.

A nice Friday off-topic read, from my old Silverlake/Echo Park hood: The tale of a man in a wheelchair, a cowardly thug, a smashed laptop, ...

In this brief interview clip about Sweeney Todd , Sondheim avows the undeniable influence of Bernard Herrmann, and strenuously disavows the...

Just saw Farnsworth Invention , about which I may post more thoughts in the future. The short version: Aaron Sorkin has so many obvious weak...

The man who called August Wilson "the worst kind of moralist" and thinks PJ Harvey is a soul singer now has a blog , ladies and ge...