Before Theatre Was Theatre...

This week's Suspension of Disbelief looks at theatre's formative years before the Greeks got ahold of it. Before the Greeks, there were the Egyptians. Before the Egyptians, there were cavemen. And before cavemen, there were insects.

Read it here.

Beyond Dracula

There's a whole universe of horror out there, so why must Actors Theatre of Louisville keep trotting out Dracula again and again, year after year? That's the question JSH asks in this week's Suspension of Disbelief, and provides a list of suggestions for spooky shows that might be a lot more interesting than the played-out old Bram Stoker bloodsucker. Read it here.

From Tumblety to Titus

Erik DeCicco, who played Dr. Francis Tumblety in Toulouse-inations (see image below), has been touring throughout Florida with Skrank Tank's production of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Abridged.


The show rushes through a whirlwind of comedic blink-renderings of the Bard's works, usually with rather warped twists - Titus Andronicus, for instance, is presented as a Food Network-style cooking show.

Read more about it here and here.

Reveling in the Obscure

Old is the new New, indeed: JSH recycles his "Forgotten Scripts" rant from the Catclaw blog for his latest column on Theatre Louisville, albeit with extensive rewrites and additions. Read it here.

Further Adventures in Retro Radio

On the heels of JSH's column on old radio theatre yesterday, the Voraxical Theatre blog now has further ruminations on the subject, with lots of downloadable goodies! Click here to get with the program.

Radio Drama

Jeffrey Scott Holland's latest Suspension of Disbelief column for Theatre Louisville is about the nearly-deceased (in the USA, anyway) art of the radio play - or what they call in Germany, Hörspiel, the cinema of the ears. Read it here.

The Shakespeare Apocrypha

This week's Suspension of Disbelief column concerns those Shakespeare plays that academia refuses to accept.

Read it here.

Our favorite one of those, The Birth of Merlin, has been planned by Catclaw for over a year and is finally coming to fruition as a puppet show. Stay tuned for further details!