In the wake of the Signature Theatre’s revival of Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, much has been made about the racial implications of turning a one-person Anna Deavere Smith play into a multi-cast affair.
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The Promise of Death
Another thought on The Promise:
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NBA for (Meta) Fiction
Trends need not bear meaning, especially when they’re unintentional.
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All Work and No Frame Makes Steven a Dull Boy
Because I’m a fan of nuance, allow me to complicate my recent treatises on my preferred brand of art.
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Useless
Remember when I wrote about the uselessness of subjective declarations of artistic taste?
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‘A’ is for Apple
Remember when I wrote about frameworks?
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FYCD
What do Being a Human Person, Val, and The Sparks Brothers have in common?
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What’s in a Genre?
Does it matter whether or not The French Dispatch is considered an anthology?
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As the Terminator Promised…
If you do something every day, and then you stop doing that something for a period of time, the intervening intermission can have a distancing effect that provides space to reconsider what you were doing before.
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Slipstream
Becoming Cousteau being released on the same day as The French Dispatch: coincidence or marketing slipstream?
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Write All Nite 