“Nothing will come of nothing.” So says King Lear in Shakespeare’s weighty masterpiece of the same name. Little does he know that out of that one word “nothing” will come a whole string of tragic events ultimately leading to the demise of himself, hi …Read more

Anything can happen at sea. Especially on a ship helmed by a mentally unstable alcoholic whose estranged son has brought an outspoken, free-thinking young woman on board. Oh, and did I mention they’re en route to Liberia to set up a Black penal colon …Read more

In the 1970’s, Harvey Milk, a gay charismatic politican, was assassinated for being openly homosexual. Using him as a pivotal character, Jerry James, Laura I. Kramer, Ellen M. Schwartz, and Cheryl Stern created a musical entitled “A Letter To Harvey …Read more

Full disclaimer: I am a John Cullum fan, so when I read that he was doing a one-man show tracing his long career, I looked forward to it. Filmed earlier this year and recorded with pianist Julie McBride, the 80 – minute show featured the 91 year old …Read more

As the pandemic continues, so does non-traditional theatre. Or, in the case of new podcast producer Open-Door Playhouse, reworking traditional entertainment methods for an unprecedented time. For their first production, the audio theatre troupe prese …Read more

In her landmark book On Death and Dying, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross details the five stages of grief. Approaching it on a personal level in The Year of Magical Thinking, writer Joan Didion shares her painful description of denial at the sudden death of he …Read more

In 1919, German-Bohemian writer Franz Kafka wrote a 47-page letter to his father. It was never delivered. Now, in 2021, James Rutherford and Michael Guagno have created a one-man cinematic show from the text of Kafka’s letter. Presented by M-34, Fran …Read more

Bobby is an introspective radio host who has four listeners, an obsession with death, and a hatred for the 6th of November. The latter is understandable, since his grandparents all died in four subsequent years on the 6th of November. (He gives all t …Read more

We’re now in a weird stage of the pandemic where some of us are wondering if we’ve lost the ability to socialize in person, some are breaking quarantine habits in favor of not losing it, and some of us are actually…well, losing it. That’s more or l …Read more

Everything old can be new again with creativity. The question is how to make the traditional relevant and, more importantly, how to attract paying viewers. John Caird and Paul Gordon collaborated to create Little Miss Scrooge, a combination of Charle …Read more