Last night I went to go see The Civilians This Beautiful City, about Colorado Springs and the impact of the Evangelical Christian movement there.  For those of you who haven't seen the show (or read the reviews), while the Civilians were down there researching the show, the whole Ted Hagga...

People tend to have two reactions to crisis. They get conservatized, or they get radicalized.  Theatre in America has been in crisis for awhile; some would argue the regional theatre movement has been in crisis since it began (and since the Government didn't make good on its promise to fol...

Oh, we're almost done... And I'm sort of... actually, really quite... grateful. It's time for this show to be over.  There's a lot about it that is unique and awesome and works quite well, but it's dragged on for too long, and for me at least partially overstayed its welcom...

I think it's safe to say from reading A.O. Scott's review of Watchmen that he didn't really get- or apparently even bother to try to get- the original graphic novel. I'm a big fan of Scott's but his misreading of the book is kind of extraordinary: ...brutality is not merely part ...

Okay folks, I'm a little bogged down with all the shows opening and getting them up on Critic-O-Meter as well as writing some proposals and applying for a few programs. In the mean time, might I recommend you read the following two semi-interrelated posts from RVC Bard about race and theatre? Th...

Might I suggest, dear readers, that you buy yourselves a jar of pickled chili peppers and start throwing them in dishes?   It's kinda like... you know the first time someone told you to put a bunch of anchovy fillets into your tomato sauce and you were like ew, gross and they were li...

Holy crap, they've got three more episodes to try to wrap this thing up, and it doesn't look like their anywhere close, although they at least have further set up my favorite end-game scenario: Giant Space Fight WIth Cavil For The Future!! Seriously, though, this week's episode combined ...

I'm pretty sure the last time it snowed this heavily, The Rapid Response Team was performing at Galapagos.  This would've been 2006.  February, to be precise. Dick Cheney had shot a man in the face with a shotgun, and we were scrambling to figure out who could tell the best joke ...

Count me as amongst the scores of lefty bloggers totally puzzled by the Right Wing obsession with the idea that Democrats are going to revive The Fairness Doctrine. For those of you just tuning in (as it were), the Fairness Doctrine was a policy of the FCC that required license holders to (a) public...

When I was a kid, there was no more prized occurrence than the Snow Day.  It felt like Christmas all over again somehow. I hated school growing up.  I liked learning, liked some of my teachers, but had few friends and, as I've talked about on this site before, had to deal with a lot ...