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Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Telecharge Is The Worst by Parabasis

By Isaac Butler Before my wife and I both semi-retired from theatre, we rarely had to buy tickets to Broadway shows. Either through her business or my artistic connections, we generally got …

SOURCE: Parabasis at 11:40AM
Saturday, July 9, 2011

Michael Billington, National Treasure. by Parabasis

By Isaac Butler If Michael Billington didn't exist, Americans would have to invent him so that they could continue to complain about British snobbery towards the US. Simply put, Billington's…

SOURCE: Parabasis at 09:09AM
Thursday, July 7, 2011

Mike Daisey Bait by Parabasis

By Isaac Butler Intiman is inviting local theatre artists to submit blueprints for reviving the company. My guess is Paul Mullin wasn't invited.

SOURCE: Parabasis at 09:46AM

Sherlock by Parabasis

By Isaac Butler I'm a bit late to the Sherlock party, having missed its television run and its first release on DVD. Now that it's on Netflix streaming, Anne and I have just completed the fi…

SOURCE: Parabasis at 09:29AM
Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Arg! (A Short Rant About Contemporary Theatre Commentary) by Parabasis

By Isaac Butler I seem to be noticing a rising tide in posts, columns, conversations, tweets, facebook status updates etc. that are driving me nuts. They are all well meaning, and genuine, I…

SOURCE: Parabasis at 09:52AM
Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Is This Intellectual Property Insanity? by Parabasis

By Isaac Butler Longtime readers of Parabasis probably know that I'm all for loosening and restructuring (without getting rid of) copyright law. Short version: Copyright is s established in …

SOURCE: Parabasis at 08:43AM
Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Greg Sargent Remembers The West Village in the 70s by Parabasis

By Isaac Butler For a trip down memory lane to the Stonewall era, here's WaPo's Greg Sargent with a moving and precise bit of memoir writing: I grew up in the far West Village in the 1970s, …

SOURCE: Parabasis at 08:29AM
Saturday, June 25, 2011

Hold On To This by Parabasis

By Isaac butler I wish I had something profound and meaningful to say about the long overdue victory for equality here in New York last night. Long time readers of Parabasis probably know th…

SOURCE: Parabasis at 10:11AM
Friday, June 24, 2011

My Catskills Tour Diary by Parabasis

By Isaac Butler I spent almost exactly twenty four hours up in the Catskills as a resident artist at The Orchard Project courtesy of the good folks at The Exchange. I spent time with their c…

SOURCE: Parabasis at 10:03AM
Wednesday, June 22, 2011

A Question For You by Parabasis

By Isaac Butler Today and tomorrow, I will be up in the Catskills, working as a resident artist with the Exchange's Core Company, a group of college students and recent grads who have gather…

SOURCE: Parabasis at 08:15AM
Sunday, June 19, 2011

Shorter Julie Taymor by Parabasis

By Isaac Butler My incompetence as a story-teller is totally Twitter and Facebook's fault.

SOURCE: Parabasis at 10:40AM
Saturday, June 18, 2011

Stephen Unwin asks: Do We Do Too Much Shakespeare? by Parabasis

By Isaac Butler He's talking about England, but his thoughts are here, courtesy of the Guardian online. In discussing this British habit of producing "skilfully packaged celebrity-led p…

SOURCE: Parabasis at 08:02AM
Friday, June 17, 2011

The Art of the Past by Parabasis

By Isaac Butler If it's factually accurate, you can't write about it without it having already happened. At some point, all nonfiction must grapple with how it positions the past. The most c…

SOURCE: Parabasis at 12:03PM
Thursday, June 16, 2011

This Place is Dead Anyway... by Parabasis

By Isaac Butler It's been a long time since I've gone a full week without blogging. In that week, i've had a ton of work to do for school (I was teaching an intensive course) and drove acros…

SOURCE: Parabasis at 02:32PM

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2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards