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 11:40AMBy 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 09:09AMBy 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 09:46AMBy 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 09:29AMBy 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 09:52AMBy 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 08:43AMBy 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 08:29AMBy 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 10:11AMBy 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 10:03AMBy 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 08:15AMBy Isaac Butler My incompetence as a story-teller is totally Twitter and Facebook's fault.
SOURCE: Parabasis at 10:40AMBy 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 08:02AMBy 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 12:03PMBy 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…
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