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Jan 09, 2009

The Importance of Being, You Know, Earnest: How Theater Failed America @ Woolly Mammoth

Mike Daisey gets all worked up in “How Theater Failed America.” Photo by Kenneth Aaron. Mike Daisey doesn’t much care for How Theater Failed America as a title, but it’s more compelling, if less accurate, than How Theater Saved Mike Daisey. Which is presumably why Daisey, world-class raconteur that he is, answers the question of the title, more or less, in the very first scene and then moves on to the good stuff. Though…

Jul 14, 2008

The Hefner Monologues: How Hefnerian @ Fringe

You know John Hefner, even if you don’t know him. He’s a total geek — a costume-dressing, trivia-spouting, shows-Ravenous-to-all-his-first-dates geek. I mean that in a friendly, even admiring way. He seems to be under the impression that his geekdom is an out-of-control malady that exacerbates his dating woes, but really now. We live in the Age of Geeks. The jock-jerk in the White House is as despised as any U.S. president has ever been. Those…

 
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