Small Ball, Long Ball

Happy New Decade, everyone.
Now let’s get started.
We’re going to begin, naturally enough, with baseball.
Baseball is an individual sport masquerading as a team sport. A team is made up of a group of specialists who don’t necessarily have to like each other. A game is made up of dozens of contests between those individuals – the [...]

A Word on the Theatre Summit

I am not going to go head-to-head with Don Hall – this is a sparring match I would lose. I don’t chalk it up to any less passion in my beliefs – it probably has something to do with the sanguine, eat-up-and-laugh-it-out nature of my Italian and Polish Ohio upbringing – which doesn’t really serve [...]

It's About You, Too

By now, you’ve all heard about About Face’s money troubles and their campaign for $300,000 to keep its doors open – either from the media or from emails from the company. I get these direct appeals fairly frequently these days, and I’m used to politely explaining to the Annual Fund staffers at Steppenwolf or the [...]