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: After More than Two Deca...

There are a lot of titles Bridgeport’s Bubby Swiger has gone by and continues to go by. He’s a dad, a husb...

Posted by Jeff Toquinto
Time Travel: A 1987 Valley Hills Shoppin...

Who remembers the Valley Hills Shopping Center off of Virginia Avenue and U.S. Route 50? Although the site is still t...

Posted by Dick Duez
It's Happening: Curtain to Open on The W...

On our way to Lambert’s Winery last Wednesday evening for live music and coal-fired pizza, m...

Posted by Julie Perine
Off the Shelf: Wellness Events Continue ...

Wellness events have become one of our most popular and most requested events at the Bridgeport Public Library. ...

Posted by Angela Spatafore
The Grapevine: Revisiting Old Games, Enj...

The Clarksburg Farmers Market is held every Saturday morning from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Tractor Supply Co. parking lot a...

Posted by Rosalyn Queen
ToquiNotes: First of its Kind Business i...

Heard the latest? Some have, since I saw it mentioned on a social media message board. Many have not since there was l...

Posted by Jeff Toquinto
The Cyber Beacon: Protecting Public Trus...

After a brief hiatus, it is great to be back writing the Cyber Beacon. Cybersecurity never stands still, and neither shoul...

Posted by Joe Earley