The Bad Boy of Musical Theatre

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 ...

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...

'Twas a year full of New Line, still soldiering on Down this long, winding road, toward a long promised dawn; 'Cause when times feel...

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 ...

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...

A big part of the punk mindset is nihilism -- everything sucks, everyone is stupid and corrupt and selfish, everyone lies, the world is a pi...

I had programmed an entirely different 2024-2025 season for New Line. In retrospect, I see now that my mistake was in thinking about seasons...

So here's the deal.  Theatres across America are still struggling with the lingering effects of the Great Plague . Dozens of great theat...

One of my side hobbies lately is finding old novels and plays that are the sources for famous musicals, and if these sources are out of prin...

I've always loved horror, and Dracula in particular. In 1995, I wrote my own gay vampire musical, In the Blood , and as I wrote, I read ...