Weekend Round-up

Here’s Kipper showing why it’s so easy to find excuses not to write. Good intentions often get trumped by someone who really wants attention right now and will sit on your pad of paper to make sure he gets it. One of the things I was trying to do on that paper was try out…

Review: A Disappearing Number and The Real Inspector Hound

The National Theatre live broadcast of A Disappearing Number proved to be a stunning experience. A heady mix of drama, math, physics, love, romance, ritual, music, classical Indian dance and rhythms — it sounds too complicated to work, but it does. In fact, it’s kind of magical. Put together by the theatre company Complicite, this…

Publication: Sex and How to Get It

Drop by Polite Company magazine to see my humor piece, “Sex and How to Get It.” Worth a chuckle or two, I hope. Feel free to leave a comment or repost it to Twitter or Facebook. That’s how word of mouth spreads these days. Which reminds me: Kit Marlowe‘s The Big Splash can now be…

Shakespeare-a-Go-Go

I set off Sunday for a Shakespeare double-header with my theatre buddy, Ron, and got all the way to Massachusetts to fill up on cheap gas before I discovered that I had left my check card in the cash machine: D’oh! We got to Shakespeare & Co for the first order of the day: A…