Theater / Ideas Newsletter (June 10-20, 2025)
I’m starting to get back in the swing of things, and at the same time managing to carve out time to write. The result may not be more posts, but longer posts. This may or may not be a welcome thing…
My last newsletter was about theater and AI. This one only has one theater-related post, and it is twelve years old. But I hope you find them interesting anyway. So here goes:
A good friend of mine, Tom Loughlin, and I go way back. Tom, who like me is a retired theater professor (although his specialty is teaching acting), wrote a post on his blog A Poor Player (link in my article) called “The Age of Futility” (also linked to in my article), which discussed a common question that most of us eventually have to come to terms with: “what’s the point?” After reading it, I was inspired to respond in an Old School way on my own blog.
The Age of Sensibility.
I also wrote a long post about, well, me! (Part of my new category “Personal Ruminations.”) I discuss how, all my life, I have been fueled by curiosity, and how a long ago appendix by writing teacher Peter Elbow (truly a Terry Pratchett-worthy name) explains how I keep my “enthusiasms” barreling forward.
On Curiosity
And finally, I intend to dig stuff out of the archives, either from my old blog (the origional Theatre Ideas over on blogspot) or other places where they might have disappeared into the cyber mists of time. This one was written twelve years ago almost to the day.
From the Archive: Saying It To Their Faces
Thanks for reading!