In early April I woke up from a familiar nightmare. I’ve been having the same recurring dream pretty much since Fringe registration closed back in March, a dream with varying…
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Greetings from Edinburgh! It’s 2am on the eve of the world’s biggest arts festival, and I can’t sleep. Actually for the past three consecutive nights it has been the same,…
From my whatsonstage.com blog “Darwin on the Fringe”: In four days the Edinburgh Fringe previews commence and I’m not ready! A few hours ago I did my first full rehearsal…
Friends, I’d like to introduce you to my newest offspring: “Rapconteur“. The album follows on from the Rap Canterbury Tales, and includes five new rap adaptations of great literature, oral…
That’s the title of a review article in the current issue of Trends in Ecology and Evolution (TREE), the highest-cited peer-reviewed science journal in evolutionary biology. The review was written…
Whew, So when the review by Olivia Judson came out a few weeks ago in the New York Times, one of the main points of contention in the comments section…
New York, New York, big city of dreams… Well, the day before yesterday I returned from my first off-Broadway run, landed in Vancouver, and promptly came down with a wretched…
Dear Friends with Friends in New York, Because let’s face it, everyone knows someone who lives or recently lived in New York. In less than two weeks The Rap Guide…
Continued from Part 1 We arrived in Cairo a few days before our show and took some time to check out the city and go over our material. We were…