Sick of fancy sycophancy

It's a weird aspect of a career in arts criticism that you get, sometimes, heaps of criticism for your criticism. So one must needs acquire one of those little Goresque lockboxes. As a musician and a creative writer, I was/am used to critical reactions (both...
StageStruck: Y'all's Town

StageStruck: Y'all's Town

Harrison, Texas, is a fictional small town that playwright Horton Foote superimposed over his real-life hometown of Wharton. Many of his plays are set in "Harrison," and he developed almost a repertory company of characters who show up in various works. All...