Irene and I leave in a few minutes for our hop across the pond.  We'll be in London for a week.  Maybe I'll blog, maybe I won't, but for sure I'm turning off my iphone for a week.  I'm weary of looking at glowing screens. Instead, we're going to see a...

What kind of theater would I like to produce? thrills in language and physical playnon-didactically engages with community and political issuesventures easily from realism & naturalism to high stylerelishes an on-going engagement with the classicsis...

Matthew Carter, Seàn Patrick Judge (a great name for an actor), and Greg Dean are now performing Harold Pinter's The Caretaker in a nigh-abandoned store front in a downtown Houston strip mall, the tatty atmospherics of which meld nicely with the gloom...

I'm an opera newbie.  Irene has introduced me to the Met's HD movie presentations and I often struggle to stay awake.  During the first two acts of Turandot, I kept drifting, unable to keep my eyes open.  But, I didn't ever quite fall asleep, so the...

Work on making the 'hand feel' of the Kindle something more akin to a book and less technological and plastic.  Wrapping the thing with an additional leather cover won't do it.  If the thing feels good in the hand and is pleasant to the eye--if it...