Carv's Thinky Blog

Category: Theatre

  • A Straight Meditation on National Themes, Part 2

    I spent February in the skin of a monster…

  • A Straight Meditation on National Themes, Part 1

    Unless you’re an actor, it’s probable you know nothing about Tony Kushner’s landmark 1993 play Angels in America…

  • Happier Trails

    Yes, it has been a pleasure being a theater critic. Sometimes. On the other hand, it’s also been a pain in the keister…

  • Kitchen Confidential

    This is the week or two during which a show grows up. If all goes as it should, it’ll reach voting age around the time we hit tech week, at which time the director and crew must turn their nearly-full attention to matters of lighting, costume, sound, and set dressing. It’s an awkward week, when…

  • Favorites

    What’s the best movie you’ve ever seen? Now: what’s your favorite? Suppose for the sake of discussion we were to define a person’s “favorite movie” as the movie he or she would be interested in watching the greatest number of times…

  • Another Juror #3

    I thought, “Someday I’d love to play that role myself.” I kinda knew it’d happen, someday anyway, and that premonition both excited and terrified me…

  • Pride and Prejudice

    Watching a cinematic adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility back in 1995, I was struck by an element I’d never understood about her novels: namely, their life-or-death stakes. To a woman of the early nineteenth century, an Austen novel was all but a thriller…

  • The 39 Steps

    I’ll have more to say about Paris later, of course, once our rush of reactions has slowed. In the meantime, it’s my pleasure to offer the following (late) review of a show which opened while we were gone…

  • Pride (In the Name of Baseline Competence)

    If I had written this blog entry 36 hours ago, it would’ve had a very different message and tone. The good folks at Capital Playhouse were kind and clever enough to invite me to appear in their spring production of Legally Blonde: The Musical…

  • Sherlock’s Last Case Trailer

    Here’s the trailer for the play I’m directing, Sherlock’s Last Case, starring John Munn and Steve Tarry…