A&E Blog

Posted on June 12, 2020

Everyone has a favorite Sondheim musical, or at least they should. Stephen Sondheim is one of the t...

Posted on June 04, 2020

I don’t know how to contribute to the current conversation because I don’t know what is left to say. ...

Posted on May 28, 2020

The best of us have figured out a way to be lifelong learners and teachers simultaneously. Nineteen...

Posted on May 21, 2020

During my college theatre years I fell down a lot…literally… It was the second perfor...

Posted on May 14, 2020

Time for some real talk. Let me begin by saying that the views and opinions expressed in this...

Posted on May 07, 2020

Find your light! You will hear these words quite a lot if you happen to wander into a darkene...

Posted on April 30, 2020

What if… What if I told you that those two simple words make up the foundation for the syste...

Posted on April 23, 2020

William Shakespeare turns 456 years old today. I am a professed Bardolator, which is one who...

Posted on April 16, 2020

There can be great power in the pause. Actors and directors use different words to describe i...

Posted on April 09, 2020

I am hopeful that history could repeat itself. Between the 14th and the 15th centuries, a ser...

Posted on April 01, 2020

Terrence McNally has passed away. I understand that most of you engaging with this blog probably have no id...

Posted on June 01, 2013

I hate money. I hate what people will do to acquire it. I hate not having it. I hate how not...

Posted on April 05, 2013

The last theatre project that I was involved in at college was an ethnographic research based original play based upon...

Posted on April 01, 2013

My grandmother had some crazy expressions. She was a remarkable woman that I got...

Posted on February 02, 2013

I was afraid I had lost Art! You see, in the summer of 2002, I was living in the College Park Apartment...

From the Bench: Former BHS Standout with...

Sometimes, opportunity is created by a series of events that may be positive and negative. Such is almost certainly th...

Posted by Jeff Toquinto
Time Travel: One of City's Legendary Bus...

Many may remember this spot from decades ago. This is the Green Parrot Tourist Camp, which was built by Pete Hall - l...

Posted by Dick Duez
The Grapevine: Recent Neighborhood Event...

If you are a summer person, then I am sure you are really happy about the soaring temperatures we have been having.&nb...

Posted by Rosalyn Queen
ToquiNotes: Robert Barrett's Journey to ...

Perhaps it is a smell. Maybe it is something we see. Or often times it is something random that conjures up the memory of...

Posted by Jeff Toquinto
Off the Shelf: Summer Reading Program St...

There’s a month left of this year’s Summer Reading Program, Oceans of Possibilities! It...

Posted by Savanna Draper
It's Happening: A Daytrip to Hovatter's ...

The giddy repetitions of “Are we there yet?” had rhythmed from the backseat for about the last 10 miles...

Posted by Julie Perine
City Faces in Different Places

This week’s Bridgeport City Face is Tara Linch. Meet her and her family here! Tell me about you and your...

Posted by Julie Perine