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Last night I caught performance no. 2—sadly, I was away for the opening—of M.A.C. Award Winner Ben Rimalower’s BAD WITH MONEY. Unless you were trapped in the rim of an active volcano for most of 2012 & 2013,… Continue Reading
While most of the world spent the morning glaring down at their own, now seemingly low tech wristwatch with dour carriage, us theatre folk were busy tweeting about the Joan Rivers slight from The Broadway League. And if… Continue Reading
I’m sharing a table at a seaside eatery with a cat right now. They kind of run the island of Amorgos, the east-most Cycladic island in the Aegean before reaching the Dodecanese, then Asia Minor—to be specific. The… Continue Reading
I never spell her name right. The Bacall part. Although, everyone who really knew the lady, called her Betty. I know this—not because I had any intimate friendship with the late great—but because I had the humbling experience… Continue Reading
Hallo from Berlin! After a delightfully exhausting jaunt through the Iberian peninsula, I’ve finally made it to the fadderland. Is that a real German word? …who cares. Such a temperature shift from sweltering Barcelona to rainy fall-like Germany,… Continue Reading
Literally, August soup is coming to you live from a train across the plain in Spain. Crisis averted: my original passage was inexplicably cancelled and I was put on the next train an hour later, demoted from a… Continue Reading
I’ve been exploring Lisboa this week—evening up the score with Vasco da Gama, whose tomb I visited yesterday in a monastery in Belém—and in my exploration, obviously, I’ve been on the hunt for good theater. And it’s here. And… Continue Reading
Sad today. And not just the usual sad that comes along with the death of an admired personality. Not melancholy, not disappointed, no “that’s too bad”-ing—genuinely blue. I suppose it’s strange to be so taken aback by the… Continue Reading
As George Gershwin so eloquently imparted through song, there are numerous, nostalgic summer traditions: family bickering at the Memorial Day barbecue, Uncle Arthur nearly setting the roof on fire with unscrupulously-acquired Chinatown fireworks, cousin Betty wearing shorts so… Continue Reading
I’m no stranger to rejection. And we’ll leave it at that. As an actor alone, I could probably conduct a workshop at the AEA center: the role opposite Ryan Gosling—I was too tall for the costume on set… Continue Reading