Not That Kind of Camp

My review of Sendak and Kushner's Brundibar is here. I hope that headline doesn't keep people away; it's a pretty delightful evening, and the seats are a steal. Not in the review: Across the aisle from me at the performance, laughing audibly, was Cal Arts' own Tamar Fortgang, in town for business and for a reading tonight of Murray Mednick's Clown Show With Bruno Schulz at Irish Rep. There's also a Holocaust backdrop in that play, but I don't think there are songs or anthropomorphic animals, alas.

Trial by Fizzle

My review of The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial is here.

Say It Ain't So

Though I haven't found his New York affiliate since I've been here, it's still sad news to learn that Phil Hendrie will hang up his brilliant, twisted radio shtick. I can't think of a better multi-voice actor of his kind, apart from Harry Shearer or Stan Freberg. Hendrie takes it the level of spontaneous genius.

Groovy

Nice photo by Steven Osman with my Evidence Room piece. And a correction: Bart's final quote, attributed to Hamlet, should have been attributed to Shakespeare, and should have read "local habitation and name." The line delivered not by the gloomy Dane but by Midsummer's Theseus.

"Appalachian" Trail

An Appalachian Twelfth Night, an L.A. production I was proud to be part of a few years back, is getting ready to book a tour. Here's a promo page. There are some more tunes on this page. I'm not sure I can be part of the tour, but I'm bursting my buttons that I was part of the original cast (and that we made an original cast album, using that vestigial folk-art method, ProTools), and pleased as punch that the homespun charms of this little-production-that-could will have a new life on the road. To upend Feste: Thus the whirligig of time brings in his rewards.

A Mamet Musical?

And other L.A. news from Playbill. Happy to see Jason Robert Brown on In the Continuum on the CTG slate.

The Weight of Evidence

I take a pained, cautiously hopeful look at what's going on with L.A.'s irreplaceable Evidence Room here. Very strange to report this story from New York.