The rise of E3T
The Tuesday-night readings at Plays and Players have an official name: “E3T” which stands for “Every Third Tuesday,” which, cleverly enough is when the readings occur. I like it. It’s…
Read moreThe latest by John O’Hara
And by “John O’Hara,” I do not mean the drunkard from Pottsville who wrote about his fellow Pottsvillian drunkards in books like Appointment in Samarra, Pal Joey, and Butterfield 8, the last…
Read moreNew reading series at Plays & Players
The title pretty much says it all. Bill McKinlay has started a new reading series that steals its tone from the old, Tuesday-night reading series that the Brick Playhouse used to…
Read moreThe people I drink with in November
Some family matters have kept me from writing, blogging, and doing the sorts of things that I write and blog about, so to compensate, I drank with some theater people…
Read moreIn the shadow of the Brick Playhouse
The Brick Playhouse is the stuff of legend. It was this 60-seat theater above a restaurant on South Street, between Sixth and Seventh, roughly across from where Tower Records used…
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