A Funeral Home in Brooklyn

"A Funeral Home in Brooklyn," published by Smith & Kraus and originally produced by Blue Coyote, is out in print. It's part of "2008: The Best Ten Minute Plays for Two Actors." You can order your copy here.

Ben Lerman at Left Out

My review of "An Evening with Ben Lerman" is up at NYTheatre.com. One more performance left of this very entertaining gay stand up/musician at the Left Out Festival.

Lynn Nottage Wins

And a well deserved win it is - "Ruined" for the Pulitzer.

"...we hold the Iowa Marriage Statute violates the equal protection clause of the Iowa Constitution."

Frank Rich's elegant demolition of the anti-marriage right's last pathetic gasps. I've read this many times now.

The Times article also has a link to the Iowa decision.

"...the County has been unable to identify a constitutionally adequate justification for excluding plaintiffs from the institution of civil marriage."

Thrilling words to read.

Ah Crap

I accidentally deleted by whole blogroll. OK. I'll fix this soon.

Henry VIII I Am

I'd never been to the Grolier Club before - never even heard of it - but I saw the article in the Times last week on the exhibit there, commemorating the 500th anniversary of the ascension of Henry VIII. It's a fun exhibit - bibliographic items, the Cloverdale Bible, letters written on vellum by various diplomats bitching about instransigent popes, even some cartoons and virulent attacks by Dickens. They have the Spanish Inquisition's copy of Shakespeare's works, where they've blotted out certain lines in the play, "Henry VIII" - presumably any lines referring to Protestants and 'not damned.' It's free, over on East 60th Street, through May 2.

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