With theaters closed and live theater on the life support of screen streaming, your committed theater writer is obliged to keeping this column vibrate and relevant until we all can return to live performance venues. Speed the day.
The large manila envelope with the elegant red wax seal must contain a secret or very important information. Especially so, since Bray (Josh Lucas), an engineering professor at Vanderbilt University, Tennessee, has driven all the way to New Orleans to personally deliver it.
The internet is a vast source of information and words of wisdom, such as the following Facebook item attributed to Randy Kellogg: “I asked a friend who has crossed 70 and is heading toward 80 what sort of changes he is feeling in himself? He sent me the following:
The United States has produced a mighty amount of profound playwrights — among them Eugene O’Neill, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee, Lillian Hellman — but the American bard who is most often likened to Shakespeare is the late, and by any dramaturgic measure, great August Wilson.
The sound is deafening. Ruben (Riz Ahmed) is mercilessly pounding on drums while Lou (Olivia Cooke) screams unintelligible noise into a microphone. The duo is appearing at a club.
Happy New Year. We have it on good authority that 2021 will be a little better than 2020, especially when summer gets here and almost everyone will have had their coronavirus vaccine shots.
“Make America Great Again,” piles of supposed proposals suggesting a formative policy agenda, right-wing Christians in the spotlight pushing hard for a thinner line between church and state, calls for government deregulation, a pandemic haunting the nation and the world.
