I watched all of SOUTH PARK and all I got was this lousy towel.

The essay "The Theatre and the Blues"

A short essay on being talented.

Who is Bobby? An Inquiry

A short tour of my book collection

Another in the on-again/off-again series "Lost Classics," an examination of Susan Stroman's movie musical version of THE PRODUCERS.

A new essay from your resident contrarian.

David Lynch. Artist. David Lynch was an artist from Missoula, Montana. He wrote and directed the films Inland Empire ,  Mulholland Drive...

Not all holidays are created equally, but there is a ubiquity about them. It is necessary, for example, to have a bright spot in the...

Searching for something to watch this last weekend, I stumbled upon a movie that loomed large in my mind as a kid while, when it...

I suppose most people have burgers and hot dogs and pools and fireworks and I enjoy all those things, but my 4th of July tradition is to...

Stephen Sondheim is a musical theatre composer and lyricist from New York City, New York. He wrote the scores for the musicals Here We...

In the mid-1970s, when the country was in a deep malaise over Watergate, Vietnam, the failure of most of the late-60s protests, artists...

One need only look at the output from Walt Disney Studios in the 1960s and see that, progressively, Walt was less and less interested in...

** out of **** We find ourselves in that time of year where films in which studios have no faith are dumped on the American public. The...

After seven weeks of hashing out words (when I was able) about the rehearsal process for a production of Waiting for Godot I’m currently...

A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of seeing James Taylor and his All-Star Band at Oak Mountain Amphitheatre in Pelham, Alabama. I’ve...

For the next two weeks, in honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, I continue to celebrate my mentor and teacher...

I remember reading Neal Gabler’s Walt Disney. A magnificent book, supposedly the first to tell of the man’s warts as well as his...

Influences on writers don’t have to be writers, do they? As I went down the rabbit hole of thinking about influences on my life and work,...