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Funny Business

Funny Business

The “screwball comedies” of the 1930s and ’40s threw audiences a curve. They veered away from the original romantic comedy genre with witty dialogue, physical sight gags, role reversals, social...

Funny Business

The “screwball comedies” of the 1930s and ’40s threw audiences a curve. They veered away from the original romantic comedy genre with witty dialogue, physical sight gags, role reversals, social...

All Together Now

All Together Now

The sounds of a small orchestra drift down from an open window above one of the parking lots at Erector Square. It’s Friday afternoon, and already the light is fading....

All Together Now

The sounds of a small orchestra drift down from an open window above one of the parking lots at Erector Square. It’s Friday afternoon, and already the light is fading....

Worlds Away

Worlds Away

The name of the game is disconcerting: I Expect You to Die. But that’s exactly what happens. The first time, I last a minute or so. I’m sitting in a...

Worlds Away

The name of the game is disconcerting: I Expect You to Die. But that’s exactly what happens. The first time, I last a minute or so. I’m sitting in a...

Word Processing

Word Processing

Aristotle, in his Poetics (ca. 330 B.C.), claimed that a poet’s function is not “to relate what has happened, but what may happen…” In his Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1802),...

Word Processing

Aristotle, in his Poetics (ca. 330 B.C.), claimed that a poet’s function is not “to relate what has happened, but what may happen…” In his Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1802),...

History in the Making

History in the Making

Home movies are made for home. Most of us would never think to show ours in public. But the silent flickering of family weddings, birthdays, vacations, baseball games and parades...

History in the Making

Home movies are made for home. Most of us would never think to show ours in public. But the silent flickering of family weddings, birthdays, vacations, baseball games and parades...

Love Story

Love Story

An “old-fashioned love song” is what the audience is promised at the beginning of On the Grounds of Belonging, currently onstage at Long Wharf Theatre. That promise will be fulfilled....

Love Story

An “old-fashioned love song” is what the audience is promised at the beginning of On the Grounds of Belonging, currently onstage at Long Wharf Theatre. That promise will be fulfilled....