John Cage 101, Available Light

Anyone who’s read this blog even glancingly over the years can probably tell Available Light’s John Cage 101 had a particularly hard row to hoe for me because I’m such a fan of Cage and that whole ‘40s and ‘50s New York milleu.  While the new show – written by the company and directed by Matt Slaybaugh – isn’t entirely successful it reaches in a way you’re lucky to see a theatre company even attempt once in its day.  In a season – except for Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson – that has so far felt a little more like regrouping and circling...

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Flying Away; Todd May, Rickenbacker Girls

...They'llnever fence the silver range.Stars are out and there is seaenough beneath the glistening earthto bear me toward the futurewhich is not so dark. I see.-Frank O'Hara, "Digression on Number 1, 1948"A. said once (after Steve Earle, in case anyone who googles it jumps my shit), "Todd May is the best songwriter in Columbus and I'd stand on Ron House's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say it." And, you know, while the soil here is rich with candidates - House and Jerry Decicca, Marcy Mays and Sue Harshe, Andy Robertson and Lara Yazvac, all...

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