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Across the Sea: Mother Always Loved You Best!
"Every question I answer will lead to another question."In the last few episodes of Lost, maybe ever since "The Constant," it seemed as if romantic love would be salvation for Lost’s lost couples. Now,...
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Shame, Shame, Shame: Every Sentence is Like Butter From My Pen.
Davis: “This isn’t good at all. Your city is wet. Really wet. It must be twice as bad on the ground.”“Shame, Shame, Shame.” It is the title of two New Orleans songs, and the title of last night’s...
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Treme: Take the zzzzz train
This is going to a short review of Treme’s sixth episode, "Shallow Water, Oh Mama," because nothing much happened.It has been a trend so far on Treme to bring on a local NOLA writer to do the episode’s...
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What They Died For: Jack's Cup Runneth Over
“Come and sit down and I’ll tell you what they died for.”Or maybe it can wait til Sunday.Tuesday's "What They Died For" was the penultimate Lost episode. This is the penultimate Lost Cause. You should...
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The Endgame for Lost
Part of the cottage industry known as Lost analyzers, the east coast edition, met at New York City’s Paley Center for Media Saturday to discuss the Lost television series and its final episode airing...
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Lost's Finale: Monday Mourning
How do you plan to do that?" — Smokey"It’s a surprise." — JackLost ended its six year run last night, and as I predicted last Tuesday, it ended with a whimper, not a bang. That was me, whimpering.I...
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Treme: All On A Mardi Gras Day
"I heard you twice the first time." - DelmondAfter a two-week hiatus, during which a real-time Gulf Coast catastrophe continues to dominate the news, Treme returned last night with “All On a Mardi Gras...
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Treme: Wish Someone Would Care
“Hi, my name is Davis. Will you come to my party?”Dear writers of Sunday’s Treme episode, "Wish Someone Would Care," thanks to you, I had to dig up all my old college notes on Kate Chopin. After...
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Treme: I'll Fly Away...and Be Back Again Some Day
"Still here. One day after the next."David Simon and Eric Overmyer’s first season of Treme was marked by high expectations - the expectations of devoted Wire fans, the expectations of New Orleanians...
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A Big Thanks to Watching Treme
The blog Watching Treme, under the guidance of Venetian Blond (I wish I had thought of that moniker), passed on the Versatile Blogger Title to the humble Death Knell.With the title comes much...
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Treme: A Sixty Second Chat with a Pine Leaf Boy
Caught the Grammy-nominated Pine Leaf Boys at Connelly's this 4th of July week-end. Despite common perception, there are people in NYC in July, and most of them were cajun jitterbugging at the Klub 45...
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Emmy Nominations for Treme
Sounding the Award Knell for Treme and Steve Earle who was nominated for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics. The odds look good for Mr. Earle. The competition is underwhelming with various tunes...
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Julius Caesar: The Dogs of War under Threatening Skies in Queens
The weather itself seemed to help "slip the dogs of war" at a recent performance of Julius Caesar in Long Island City, Queens at the Secret Theatre. The thunder and lightning that dramatically begins...
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The Great Unknown: Take Me To The River
The Great Unknown, having nothing to do with Donald Rumsfeld's foreign policy tenets, is a sweetly earnest history-musical reminiscent of Big River or Shenandoah. With a book by William Hauptman, who...
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Weekend at an English Country Estate: Icing on a Favorite Cake
The song that playwright Sara Montgomery metaphorically sings in her Weekend at an English Country Estate is a familiar one. The play is a drawing room comedy reminiscent of Noël Coward's Hay Fever or...
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What Kinda Neighborhood Is This?
There is a theater benediction for those working downtown, Off Broadway, Off Off Broadway, and in community theater, and I paraphrase: may your audience always outnumber your cast. Producing Lanford...
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History Just Got All Sillypants
What's that up in the air? Is it Spider-man from Turn Off The Dark?! Be careful of your wrists! Oh..no...it's just Andrew Jackson's horse hanging from the fairy light rafters of the Bernard B. Jacobs...
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"Your Story Has Kicked Up Quite A Fuss Around The Office" - The Library of...
The Library of America collection, Shirley Jackson: Novels and Stories, is an initial disappointment. Editor Joyce Carol Oates, normally so prolific, is surprisingly silent here.There is little to...
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A Fairy Queen from Queens in Manhattan
Coming into Manhattan like a ship at Fleet Week, The Queens Shakespeare Company arrived this week-end with its large troupe to finish up a successful run of its spring A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Moving...
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Please Forgive the Empty Spaces - Looking for a Way to Peacefully Coexist
Site Under Construction - Looking Toward a Friendly Merger with Irish Stage NYC
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Ibsen's Pillars of the Community: Homecomings Are Not Always Joyous Affairs.
I'm back! With a new gig from the Cape Cod Times which will help me keep this poor blog au current. The review below was originally published in the Times. Chris Kanaga (left) and Danielle Dwyer....
View Article84 Charing Cross Road - Sharing is Caring Especially When It Comes to Books
As the year winds down, I will clean house and gather my freelance work here....In "84 Charing Cross Road," running at the Cotuit Center for the Arts' Black Box Theater, ardent reader Helene Hanff...
View ArticleThe Tweets Are Alive With The Sound Of Music
Right on the heels of the controversial NBC live production of The Sound of Music (ratings great; Stephen Moyer good; Carrie Underwood? I let you decide, I'm not piling on that load), here is the...
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And Then There Was None: God, Shakespeare and Agatha Christie In That Order?
Monomoy Theatre’s “And Then There Were None” features, from left, Bernard Cornwell, Alycia M. Kunkle and Thomas Daniels. photo by SARAH SIERSZYNCHATHAM — An old adage proclaims there are only seven...
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God of Carnage: Letting Your Defenses Down
Starring in "God of Carnage" are, from left, Tom Boland, Braunwyn Jackett, Jody O'Neil and Melenie Freedom Flynn.photo by JOSHUA ANDRUSIt is difficult to know who is having a better time during the...
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