People are talking about vaginas these days. And the associate artistic director of the Performance Network Theatre in Michigan took steps to protect them.
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 03:51PMEarlier this week, NPR announced that the Magliozzi brothers—you may know them as Click and Clack—are retiring. Stations will air favorite segments of Car Talk as reruns. I’m not all t…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 01:20PMHere’s a story I wrote about David Wheeler, who died last week, and his marvelous theater in Boston, which predeceased him. I got to know David when he was at Robert Brustein’s Ameri…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 12:18AMA recent study by the London School of Economics concluded that three things top the list of what makes folks in the UK happy–sex and exercise, and the obvious one, going to theater.
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 01:18PMAfter the flood of brilliant pre-show publicity—other shows on the Rialto shut down in anticipation of its arrival—Hurricane Irene turned out to be far less powerful a production than al…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 01:41PMAccording to the New York Times, two years ago, inmates in California had access to opportunities in the arts, activities that probably reduced recidivism. Then, there was an arts coordina…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 02:51PMEach year at the Tony Awards, the celebration halts for a few minutes to pay tribute to the artists we’ve lost during the year, actors, directors, designers, producers. This year, the obit…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 12:44PMYou don’t have to share a gene pool to be someone’s kid. He doesn’t have to adopt you. Hell, he doesn’t even have to know who you are. I hadn’t met Robert Brustein when he started …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 10:04PMSchoolbiz This isn’t a pretty story. I don’t go around telling it, even to good friends. But a journalist’s job is to convince people to reveal what they wish they hadn’t, and I …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 12:57PM“Producer Suggests Taymor Will Step Aside” blasts the New York Times. On the afternoon of March 9, 2011, this latest Spider-Man headline, accompanied by a photo of outgoing direc…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 04:55PMIn the last few months, I visited some of the theaters in Southeast and Central Michigan, and what’s going on is unprecedented in this region. Theaters are popping up all over, and many ar…
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