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The jokes hold up in Old Globe's Importance of Being Earnest
Superiority to Hot Shots: Part Deux is the least of its accomplishments.
I laughed myself into a coughing fit after only fifteen minutes of the Old Globe’s production of The Importance of Being Earnest. In fairness, I also cracked up over the film version where Reese Witherspoon ...
Dandelions are not the most Christmaslike plants
A lot biology crammed into the four corners of the house
Last year, my wife and I hosted my entire family for a week over the Christmas break. All told, we had eight people in the house: me and Sara, my three brothers, my younger brother’s ...
Monsters that prowl the shadowy corners of memory
Tarrytown in University Heights
I like that Ichabod Crane believes in ghosts. Tom Zohar plays Ichabod in Backyard Renaissance Theatre Company’s debut production of Adam Wachter’s Tarrytown — with Katrina (Kay Marian McNellen) and Brom (Bryan Branville) similarly borrowed ...
Reindeer Monologues at OB Playhouse
The dark, unlovely picture painted by this play
We get the conceit of Santa’s eight reindeer from the reindeer husbandry practiced by the indigenous people of Fennoscandia. In Siberia, the locals shave curlicues of meat from frozen reindeer steaks, which they eat raw ...
American Carnage in City Heights
Choose your own apocalypse
When the world as we know it ends, will it be our fault? Broadly speaking, dystopian sagas diverge into two camps. On the one hand, you have your bleak future in the vein of Fahrenheit ...
Tenth Avenue Art Center’s Evil Dead: the Musical
Even badder badness
My wife and I saw Tenth Avenue Art Center’s Evil Dead: the Musical this year, because Halloween. We did not sit in the front row “splatter zone,” where spectators enjoy periodic soakings in fake blood ...
Lest we be lost in the long black night
Gamma Rays at Cygnet Theatre
On account of inexcusable ignorance, I initially thought that Cygnet Theatre had produced a contemporary drama with Paul Zindel’s The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds. To my ear, the title fit a short ...
Un-burgers, breakfast burgers, Ur-burgers, taco burgers
Ponce's, Circa, Wa Dining Okan, Rabbit Hole, Daybreak Island Grill
What makes a burger? Obviously, ground meat enters the equation, and there must be some sort of presentation beyond slapping a griddled patty down on a plate, but it’s hard to qualify exactly what a ...
Hamlet, and wacky theories
To be or not be at the Old Globe
Following in the rich tradition of worldwide dads, my father has been known to entertain a bevy of wacky theories, often encapsulated in simple pronouncements that sound absurd on the face of things, but ultimately ...
