http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/cultured-people-happier-less-stressed. People who go to museums and concerts or create art or play an instrument are more satisfied with life, regardless of how educated or rich they are. For years we’ve read studies about how arts in education create better students, especially with the math+music connection. Here’s proof (I’m calling it proof) that you don’t [...]
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DEATH, FACEBOOK & THE NTC: close one door, open another
I have a feeling that except for my inner circle, most of the people who know me will learn of my death on Facebook. I’ve heard of two such loses this week as the Denver theatre community bids farewell to two beloveds. First it was Renye, a much loved artist who fell to cancer and [...]
The Virgin and the Badass Bard
Theatre’s obsession with Shakespeare, coined ‘bardolotry’ by George Bernard Shaw, has always escaped me. While Voltaire called his work “an enormous dunghill”, my aversion to Sir Will is far less eloquent. Not knowing my First Folio from my “What ho Malvolio”, I’d quipped “I hate Shakespeare” in defense. “You don’t know what the hell he’s [...]