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Saturday, June 16, 2012

Ms. Milarch (and Her Vagina) Go to Lansing by Davi Napoleon

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 03:51PM
Saturday, June 9, 2012

No New NPR Car Talks–But a New Musical by Davi Napoleon

Earlier 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 01:20PM
Wednesday, January 11, 2012

David Wheeler and the Theater Company of Boston Remembered by Davi Napoleon

Here’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 12:18AM
Wednesday, November 30, 2011

How to Be Happy by Davi Napoleon

A 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 01:18PM
Sunday, August 28, 2011

Hurricane Irene Bombs on Broadway by Davi Napoleon

After 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 01:41PM
Thursday, June 30, 2011

Loss of Liberty and the Pursuit of Theater by Davi Napoleon

According 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 02:51PM
Thursday, June 9, 2011

Remembering the Dead at Tony Time by Davi Napoleon

Each 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 12:44PM
Saturday, June 4, 2011

Robert Brustein and His Dads by Davi Napoleon

You 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 10:04PM
Monday, May 9, 2011

Selling Myself for School by Davi Napoleon

Schoolbiz  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
Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Latest Up-to-the-Split-Second “Spider-Man” News! Read All About It!! by Davi Napoleon

“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 04:55PM
Sunday, February 27, 2011

Michigan Theater in Crisis: Film Tax Incentives in Jeopardy by Davi Napoleon

In 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…

SOURCE: The Faster Times at 03:48PM

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Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
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