The Bad Boy of Musical Theatre
Random musings from a bad-ass culture warrior
May 8, 2025
There's Only Us
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Art explores and explains life. That’s the whole point of art. Can art explain Donald Trump and this Moment of MAGA, this angry, dark, cultu...
April 19, 2025
Food of Love: The RENT Glossary
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Have you ever wondered about all those references in "La Vie Bohème"? Me too! Here's what I found. "Dies irae" -- ...
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April 8, 2025
Everything is Still Rent!
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We've just begun rehearsals for Rent , and I could not be more delighted. Our cast is terrific. I saw the show on Broadway in 1997 with ...
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March 25, 2025
My Beautiful Creature
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I spent my high school years crazy, madly in love with Rocky Horror . I saw the movie at midnight screenings at the Varsity Theatre eighty ...
March 18, 2025
Lost in Time and Lost in Space and Meaning
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Most people think of Rocky Horror as silly, sexy nonsense. I thought about it that way in high school when I saw the movie more than eight...
January 1, 2025
'Twas a Year Full of New Line, 2024
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'Twas a year full of New Line, still soldiering on Down this long, winding road, toward a long promised dawn; 'Cause when times feel...
October 9, 2024
Heart Like a Hand Grenade
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New Line has been in transition the last few years. The Great Plague of 2020 didn't really cause this transition, but it sped it up. I ...
September 22, 2024
Everybody's a Critic. Literally.
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What responsibility do theatre reviewers have these days? What role do they play in our culture? And maybe more to the point, what value doe...
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