The Alice Seed
I really enjoy this play by Mike Sepesy, as well as the follow-up: The Douglas Tree.  There were things I liked about the production and things that I did not.  Mostly the things I didn’t like revolved around the sneaking suspicion that Mike wasn’t given the resources that his play deserved.  [...]

Lost…in the Underworld
So, I’m catching up on a play-viewing backlog and, unfortunately, this review will seem a bit terse from the lapse of time. I’ll start at an uncomfortable place: as I reported in my entry dated September 16th, I was pretty pumped about seeing Finn in the Underworld at convergence. But the seeing didn’t [...]

Tom Hanks stops by Convergence
On Sunday evening Tom Hanks stopped by The Liminis theater at convergence-continuum for two hours. All reports indicate that the man is incredibly generous and an all-around great guy. I would know from personal experience, except that I was at home asleep with a sick two-year-old at the time. C’est la vie…

The Heidi Chronicles
Just went to see The Heidi Chronicles at the Eldred Theater at Case.  I enjoyed the show, though it continued a recent pattern for me of finding myself strangely at odds with shows that are “realistic” in nature. This was the first time I’d been to the Eldred despite my desire to [...]

Ah, cell phones…
I just opened up my web browser and found a blurb on Yahoo! News that I had to follow. It took me to TMZ, that most wonderful of gossip sites, and showed Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig running a scene in a preview production of the upcoming play A Steady Rain. As fate would have [...]