Blessed Are the Cheesemakers
Murder hits a small town in Douglas Morrisson Theatre’s Book of Days.
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Theatre Saves TV–Maybe
Can live television be saved? What, in 2014? Is that even a thing? Find out in Thunderbird Theatre’s Show Down! Or you could
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A Tighter Titus
Titus Andronicus is William Shakespeare’s bloodiest tragedy, and for centuries it was also generally considered to be his worst. Although the playwright’s contemporaries loved it, it wouldn’t regain popularity until after Word War II, when all the play’s hand-chopping, child-killing, rape, decapitation and cannibalism no longer seemed as outlandish as it once did. In the age of the slasher flick, Titus’s Grand Guignol elements are once again its primary selling point.
