(Theater, New York) Legendary cinematic alpha dog Al Pacino is listed at five-seven – “listed”, ha ha – and still he’s pulled off some of the most crazed and powerful characters in movie history, so this is not a cause for concern or anything, here, but still, read this and feel your bones turn to glass. ...more...

(Theater, Chicago) Now, of COURSE Jim Henson never let Kermit and Gonzo and Miss Piggy get up to something as unsavory as cussin’, are you crazy? That’s not the sort of thing that Jim Henson would have approved of, not at all, not even for a minute. ...more...

(Theater, Los Angeles) Meet Quiara Alegria Hudes. She wrote the book for In the Heights! Also, she won the Pulitzer last year for Water by the Spoonful! ...more...

(Theater, Richmond) No one really does Cymbeline; it’s kind of a “languish Shakespeare”, which is understandable, in that Cymbeline is a story of royalty and scheming and murder, whereas Macbeth, for example, is a story of murder and scheming and royalty. Totally different! ...more...

(Theater, Philadelphia) Toronto native George F. Walker’s written two dozen plays in his career so far, which at current exchange rates is like twenty American plays, and yet do you know who George F. Walker is? ...more...

(Visual Art, Theater, Cincinnati) David Lindsay-Abaire broke his playwright’s cherry in 1999 with Fuddy Meers, about a lady with amnesia and her helpful family. (Everyone dies at the end.) ...more...

(Theater, Boston) Whether or not you dig their particular style, the Car Talk brothers, Click and Clack (or Tom and Ray Magliozzi, if you prefer), know what they’re talking about; unsurprising, really, considering they’re both MIT graduates. ...more...

(Theater, Louisville) This is a great idea, we should all do this! The next time you see an elderly lady on her way to the restroom, just trail along behind her! ...more...

(Theater, New York) This is the sort of question that playwrights and actors ask themselves when the desire to have a hit supersedes the desire for exploration and muted lighting, because Harry Potter is somehow a half-decade in the past, which means the time is right to start making fun of him. And people will buy that stuff. ...more...

(Theater, Chicago) Okay, not explicitly; she doesn’t remove her thumb or ask people to pick a card. ...more...

(Theater, Chicago) There are pretty much two ways it can go: either you’re groomed to be something in particular, or people start saying things like “You can be whatever you want!” to you when you’re far too young to have any idea what you might want to be, or even what the options are, really. ...more...

(Theater, Hartford)Giulia Melucci published I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti in 2008; in it she recounted a spate of less-than-ideal boyfriends, all of whom, apparently, she made homemade pasta for ...more...

(Theater, New York) People talk more about the musicals, because musicals are SPECTACLE and GLITZ and Liza Minnelli in a top hat or whatever, but very quietly in the last couple of years the “straight play” has made a considerable comeback on the GWW. ...more...

(Theater, Washington DC) There’s no profit, and no dignity, in trying to make someone quit before he or she is ready. Here’s the way the equation works: If (a) has desire, and (b) has a willingness to satisfy that desire for mutual gain, then (a + b) = (c)ome on back, dude, let’s find you a jersey. ...more...

(Theater, New York) What a time it must have been, the age of the Warhol Superstars, Andy Warhol and his Factory, holding court downtown, the early ’60s – shooting speed, holding happenings, the Exploding Plastic Inevitable, unleashing the Velvet Underground on the world, ...more...

(Theater, Austin) We speak here from experience: The Hideout Theatre might be nuts. ...more...

(Theater, New York) A couple of years ago, Avatar came out and started setting CRAZEE box office records, like that you’d maybe think everyone in America had seen Avatar at least once. ...more...

(Theater, Los Angeles) One of the big bombshells last week, depending on where you’re sitting, was the report that minority births in 2011, for the first time, outnumbered Caucasian births in America. Whuh-oh! ...more...

(Theater, Bay Area) Memphis came from TheatreWorks and American Idiot from Berkeley Rep, and though that’s only a pair of shows, the two of them combined probably played more performances than any half-dozen randomly selected Broadway productions. ...more...

(Theater, Chicago) Marvin Gaye’s life was a minefield, and in many ways a disaster, and that’s putting it mildly, and easily, and kindly. ...more...

(Theater, New York) The Delacorte turns 50 this year! Yay! Fifty years ago we were still putting men who had the Right Stuff into tin cans and shooting them into space on rockets, which is not something we do any more, so… hooray, future? ...more...

(Theater, Columbus) (Please get that.) It will, somehow, be June by the time this week ends, which not only means that – whee! – our lives are rapidly ending, but also that the weather will soon begin to get very, very hot for most of us, at least in the places where it is not already very, very hot. ...more...

(Theater, New York) Back when we were all trying to figure out if we were ever going to get an actual winter (nope!), the Flea Theater had this thing on its boards called These Seven Sicknesses, which was Sean Graney’s re-imagining of the seven surviving plays of Sophocles. ...more...

(Theater, Denver) Every day, almost, the world gives you another example of how relentless is the march of time and how foolhardy we are to try and forestall it. ...more...

(Theater, Austin) Who can describe these guys, accurately? ...more...