Today: Love, Sadness

At my most unsettled, I don’t sleep well. I know that’s not unusual, and I only mention it because since becoming a parent, the most unsettled times usually have to do with loss, and during those times, part of why I don’t sleep is that the working...
StageStruck: Pulp Fiction

StageStruck: Pulp Fiction

“Different times, different prohibitions,” says the proprietress of The Well. It’s 1956, and this daughter of a Prohibition-era bootlegger runs a Chicago nightclub catering to lesbians. Vivian is one of the five characters, all women, in Pulp, a...
A Majestic Summer

A Majestic Summer

The Theater Project has generally filled the hot-weather lull between its nine-month seasons with concerts and musical cabarets. This summer adds a full theatrical production, Stones in His Pockets, a two-man play about a couple of locals in rural Ireland...