“Teddy Ferrara” Midway through opening night of Christopher Shinn’s tragic “Teddy Ferrara” at Goodman Theatre, an elderly woman became unresponsive in her seat, prompting the patrons around her to panic, calling an ambulance, asking everyone to back away and give her space and halting the show. The actors froze in place and then passed a pillow off the rather spartan set for the woman to lie on more comfortably. She eventually came around and as the audience held its collective breath watching EMTs carrying her out of the Owen Theatre on a stretcher, she raised both arms above her head and declared, “I’m so sorry ya’ll.”
Dime Stories: RNC Night Two—Prom Night for Pimps, Trolls and Mutants Say this for the ongoing criminal enterprise that is the Trump presidency: nothing is beneath them. When they find their way to one morally reprehensible bottom and you think they cannot go lower, they find a way to keep digging in order to achieve a greater depth of lawlessness and repellent behavior.
Today in the Culture, April 8, 2021 | Opening Locks | Rising Mercury | Waxing Roth | Remembering Sahlins ART Gilberts Grant Cranbrook Academy of Art $30 Million Toward Diversity The Cranbrook Academy of Art outside of Detroit has received a $30 million donation from the Michigan-based billionaires Jennifer and Dan Gilbert, one of the largest ever made to a graduate-level arts program in the U.S., reports The Art Newspaper. "The funding will support the creation of full-tuition fellowships…
