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Wondering About Critique…
Here’s a pretend letter from a pretend reader of a blog dedicated to thinking through various issues related to art-making and Christian faith. “Dear Blogging Person, How does a working artist deal...
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The American Clock
I’ve got to get out more. Last night, I trekked downtown to small venue I’d never been to before, one of the performing spaces for Cornish School of the Arts (it may be the only one…I don’t know). I...
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Three Tall Women Demonstrate Why Art Matters
Megan Cole as A, Alexandra Tavares as C, and Susanne Bouchard as B in Seattle Repertory Theatre's production of Edward Albee's Three Tall Women At 7:15 p.m. on this Wednesday evening I was in a bit of...
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What Two Months of Civil War Reading Will Do To You
“It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped.” After two months of reading, and a trip to Gettysburg, Washington, D.C., and Virginia, here’s a little of...
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Learning to Work on Your Work
So I went from full time to half time to all-the-time. From lots of people everyday to hardly any people any day. From interactions with people focused primarily on what some would call...
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Theatre Spiked Sunday Morning: On Experiencing “The Agony and Ecstasy of...
Mike Daisey (photo by Kevin Berne) Race. Labor. Civil War. Apple. Corporate responsibility, art, and Christ. The present moment, Sabbath, friendship, taking on the world. Somewhere in China, men,...
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Two Pennies Left: Why The “How” of a Thing Matters
FYI, up front, this post is not about flowers. It is about content and form in art-making, conversation, and relationship. It’s about the connection of human essence and identity to the...
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Thoughts on “My Fair Lady”
[Caveat: I wrote the following over the weekend before I'd had much a chance to read up on Shaw's take on things. Now I know more. Tomorrow I'll return to this theme. What follows in this post is...
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George Bernard Shaw and the Fight for Pygmalion
“Don’t talk to me of romances; I was sent into the world to dance on them with thick boots–to shatter, stab, and murder them.” — George Bernard Shaw. (His Collected Letters) The basic facts are...
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Humor Abuse: See It at The Seattle Rep
I’m not really a clown kind of guy, but years ago, back in the 80′s, I spent a memorable evening of theatre in the presence of one of the best. Avner the Eccentric, he called himself, and I remember...
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