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TT: The eleventh day of the eleventh month
On October 9, 1918, an HMV sound engineer named Will Gaisberg set up a primitive piece of recording equipment immediately behind a unit of the Royal Garrison Artillery stationed outside Lille and ...

TT: Good old days
A new friend of mine who dances for a living wrote the other day to tell me that she's just been cast as the Woman With the Purse in Jerome Robbins' Fancy Free, the wonderful 1943 sailor-suit ballet that made ...

TT: Almanac
"Pictures can work perfectly; life cannot." Helen Frankenthaler (quoted in The Art Newspaper, June 2000)

ENTER, STAGE RIGHT?
"When the curtain goes up, I don't care whether the author of the show I'm about to see is a Republican, a Democrat, an anarchist or a drunkard, so long as he's taken the advice of Anton Chekhov: 'Anyone who says the artist's field is ...

The Clyde Fitch Report

The Afternoon Report, November 10, 2008

The Management Wants Your Plays

Scott Eckern: Enemy of Freedom, Lover of Bigotry, Death and Hatred

The Critical Condition

Flashback!: Is “Don’t Stop Believin’” a masterpiece?

Is Ugly Betty really Angela Chase?

Extra Criticum

Dreams of Our 21st Century WPA...
OK. So... call me crazy but... with all this talk about stimulus this and stimulus that, am I the only member of the performing arts community who hears those words and immediately makes the irrational leap to fantasies about our...

On Chicago Theatre

A Long Overdue Update
First off, I must apologize for the fact that it's been almost two weeks since I wrote here. No excuse is terribly good, but I guess that at least I can offer the turmoil of the election (Ohmygodwediditwedidit!) and some developments in my own life (Short version: things in my theatrical career are looking very promising...

Parabasis

Hm.
What do you all think about this? Just thought it was relevant w/r/t the whole conversation we've been having today about Liberal (In)Tolerance.

The Producer's Perspective

As close to a course in producing as you can get.
There's no bar exam for Producers. No boards to pass in order to practice. No degrees required

The Wicked Stage

Angel Passing