"Wonder of Wonders, Miracle of Miracles": Look at what Donald Trump has accomplished so far! Yuck!
Gratitude to my wife and occasional accompanist for buoying up this performance of my latest song parody at the piano.
Actors Theatre Indiana romps through a farce — unusually, without a founder in the cast
"Don't you love farce?" runs a memorable rhetorical question in Stephen Sondheim's "Send In the Clowns." There's lots to watch on the screen for characters in "Unnecessary Farce." Desiree's bitter song points to the conditions that underlie farce: Misunderstandings, false assumptions, confused or deceptive identities, upsets, personal disasters. None of that is any fun when you're living it. If relatively minor, the conditions of farce may seem risible shortly after the dust has settled. If more serious, they will be permanently unsettling. As a literary or dramatic genre, however, most people do indeed love farce. But, frankly, the whole bag may seem unnecessary — and not just as part of the pun in the last line of Paul Slade Smith's "Unnecessary Farce." Actors Theatre Indiana opened the show Wednesday night in the Studio Theater at the Center for the Performing Arts . The premise is a police sting operatio
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