Theatre News

I’ve got a few gigs coming up that I’d like to let you all know about. First up is The Hound of the Baskervilles at City Lit. We open this coming Monday, September 3, and run Fridays — Sundays through mid-October. It features the incomparable Don Bender as...

Pathetic and Sad

I was contemplating some kind of diatribe against Michael Vick, soon-to-be- former Atlanta Falcons quarterback and also-soon-to-be inmate of a federal penitentiary. I wanted to make a statement regarding what a sick fuck that douchebag turned out to be, and I wanted...

Godless Heathen

I am an atheist. My wife knows I’m an atheist. Some of my friends know it. I haven’t exactly kept it a secret, but it just doesn’t come up in conversation that much. I think it’s something that many people don’t want to talk about. Maybe...

Master of Verona

I posted this review on Amazon.com, but I thought I’d reprint it here because I’d like to get the word out about this book. David Blixt was the fight director for the stage version of A Clockwork Orange I was in just before I got married. He’s a cool...

The Bourne Ultimatum

There is a fight scene in The Bourne Ultimatum, which I saw last night, that forced me to alter certain preconceived notions I had about the “proper way” to film a fight. It occurs at the end of a lengthy and incredibly tense three-way chase scene, where...