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So much has happened that I don’t know where to begin. So I will start with THE MAN WHO WASN’T THERE launch party at Annie Bloom’s Books last Wednesday night. How can I thank [...]

There is no more trusty an old nugget than Thornton Wilder’s play Our Town. Many of us endured the reading of it in 8th or 9th grade. I don’t recall when I read it, but it was not [...]

Those who attend Artist Repertory Theatre’s season opener, The Understudy, will find themselves privy to the most misbegotten rehearsal in the history of theatre. This is no exaggeration. [...]

1928. It is the best of times–after Repeal and just before the stock market crash in 1929. Stock brokers are still regarded as respectable people; hemlines have gone up; social moors are [...]

Since my last post, it’s gotten crazy around here. Some of you already know this, but I am in the process of selling my beloved home in Lower Hillsdale Heights. Emma gets to stay there but [...]