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Teaching Alternatives

September 30th, 2008

In my Theatre of the Oppressed class this  semester, we are reading Jill Dolan's Utopia in Performance: Finding Hope at the Theatre. ...

David Hare on John Osborne

September 26th, 2008

"It is, if you like, the final irony that John's governing love was for a country which is, to say the least, ...

Re-Runs: On Possibility

September 26th, 2008

As I prepared for class today, I stumbled upon a post I wrote back in mid-July that I would like to re-post ...

Prof’s Response to Devilvet

September 25th, 2008

In response to devilvet's suggestion that Don Hall, Isaac Butler, and I suspend our blogging activities until the current economic crisis is ...
[This is part of an on-going series devoted to Patti Digh's Life Is a Verb, a book that I highly recommend. While ...

Life Is a Verb: The Mini-Series

September 22nd, 2008

On Saturday evening, my wife and I went downtown to our iconic independent bookstore, Malaprops, to hear my friend Patti Digh read ...

Economic Bailout

September 22nd, 2008

This has nothing to do with theatre. But I think that this discussion of the economic bailout is persuasive. Blogged ...
Another thought-provoking post by Laura Axelrod, this one on "Our American Identity." Declaring that "we have lost sight of who we are ...

Small Business Offline Promotion

September 19th, 2008

To start your own business is a right way to achieve financial freedom. But when you decide to have it, You really ...

Local Art

September 18th, 2008

Laura at Trainling Spouse Blues writes a report from the field called "Act Locally." Check it out. As far as my own ...