Tomorrow is Tony Day. It’s one of things I look forward to all year. I count down. I watch the clock. I make myself a touch crazy about it.
The thing I love about the Tonys, though, is that while it certainly creates a little extra crazy it also heals me a little bit. We all [...]

They might be a bit late in getting to you, but here at last are the 2011 Tony nominees! You know the rules by now. I’ll link to each show the first time they are listed and throughout you’ll find my thoughts in italics wrapped in parenthesizes.
Best Play
Good People
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The Tony nominations are out! It’s officially Tony season again and the gods are smiling and the the lights of Broadway are twinkling and I will have my annual post of nominees and links to shows up just as soon as I can.
It’s a work in progress, but the Tony nominations are here, and that’s [...]

Can I please just offer one piece of relationship advice this Valentine’s Day? I’m not going to pretend that I can sit confidently upon a lofty perch and proclaim how to have a happy, healthy relationship because I have such a stellar track record. What I do have, however, is a happy, healthy relationship. So [...]

I friggin’ hate the stress of Valentine’s Day. This year is particularly difficult. First, I still don’t have a card for Irving. Well, I do, but I bought it six months ago and it is now missing in the throng of boxes that have yet to be unpacked after moving nearly four months ago. It [...]

Yahoo! News just ran an article about the mistakes men make around Valentine’s Day. It was mostly obvious stuff. Thinks like don’t buy your 30-yr old girlfriend a stuffed teddy bear or a heart-shaped box of chocolate you picked up in the check out aisle at the pharmacy. It frowned on forgetting to make plans [...]

You know those holiday movies on Lifetime and the Hallmark channel where the girl who’s obsessed about her job or her family stress or the impending doom of the number 30 finally meets a good guy and they have a montage of cheesy holiday moments set to standard carols? Maybe he tosses snow balls at [...]

It’s that time again. Tony Season! Yes, I’ve been slightly out of sight lately, but I’m here. And I’m excited.
I am trying to condense some of my Tony posts into one big Tony post since I’ve been a terrible procrastinator and we’re already only 10 days away. To start with, I have included the list [...]

Ladies and gentlemen, can I please take a moment to look into the sky, throw my head back into a yell, and let loose with one astounding “Thank God!”? After what seemed to be an almost impossibly long year, 2009 is finally on its way out. Can I get an amen?!
Don’t get me wrong, 2009 [...]

This year has been rough. Two dear friends moved to opposite sides of the country, I lost my job, the director of my festival passed away (details on that entire experience in another post), and I’ve been dealing with some rather unpleasant gloom that decided to latch on to me somewhere around mid-April and just [...]