Niwa Gekidan Penino: The Room Nobody Knows; Wexner Center, 01/23/14

Hang overhead from all  directions Radiation from the porcelain  light Blind and blistered by the morning light I dream a highway back to you -Gillian Welch, "I Dream a Highway" Here, the slow dance of contingency An afternoon connected to an evening by a slender wish.  Sometimes absence  makes the heart grow sluggish and desire only one person, or one thing. I am closing the curtains. I am helping the night. -Stephen Dunn, "The Snowmass Cycle, 4. Delineation at Dusk" A good friend of mine who I'd lost touch with for the usual...

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Thoughts on Available Light Theater's Next Stage Initiative - Weekend 1

Available Light, for which I have an undisguised affinity, has undertaken a project to stage brand new work - in various stages of readiness and experience, in readings or workshop stagings, each piece one show only: Next Stage Initiative.  This weekend I went to all three productions (next weekend with scheduling I can only make two of the three).  It's predictably uneven but it's also, perhaps just as predictably, one of the most inspiring and invigorating things I've seen in a while. Two of the pieces were brand new - Matt Slaybaugh's...

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Mark Flugge Quartet; Natalie's Coal-Fired Pizza and Live Music, January 8, 2014

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