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April 2016

April 21, 2016

Running the Stats on Shakespeare!

Shakespeare's 400th death day comes up this weekend, so I've done some analysis for FiveThirtyEight...

March 2016

March 24, 2016

Dwelling In Wounds To Hide From Grace

I really enjoyed seeing a broadcast of Kenneth Brannagh's The Winter's Tale (and, if the...

February 2015

February 25, 2015

The Story of Shmuel and Tailoring Support [Guest Post]

This is a guest post by Ellery Weil on The Last 5 Years. I've included a...

February 17, 2015

No Villains, Just Inept Lovers in The Last 5 Years

The Last 5 Years tells the story of Jamie and Cathy's relationship, from the moment...

January 2015

January 10, 2015

Into the Weeds (and the Woods) [Radio Readings]

My new, weekly radio program, Fights in Good Faith, premiers today. You'll be able to stream...

December 2014

December 08, 2014

The Last 5 Years is totally our next Symposium topic

Eeeeee! EEEEEEEE! Eeeeee! For folks who aren't familiar with Jason Robert Brown's The Last 5 Years,...

September 2014

September 28, 2014

But Who Will I Take Care Of? [Desire of the Everlasting Hills]

Last week, I had the pleasure of seeing Desire of the Everlasting Hills at a screening...

September 16, 2014

Justice Laid (Possibly Unlawfully) Bare

I'm reviewing Arguendo today at The American Interest, and explaining how this play about a Supreme Court case...

August 2014

August 24, 2014

They Eat Horses, Don’t They?

Last night, I got to see a special screening of the Folger Theatre's 2008 production...

July 2014

July 21, 2014

The Worm at the Heart of the Tower in Merrily We Roll Along

This post is one in a series on friendship, explored through the lenses of Stephen...

June 2014

June 15, 2014

The Merry Merchant and the Sad Antonio

Last night, I had the pleasure of seeing the closing night performance of The Merchant of...

March 2014

March 23, 2014

Math, Moolah, Meddling Spies, and Monarchs

Here's the roundup of my most recent writing for The American Conservative, which includes math nerdery,...

March 03, 2014

If Only Angels Would Prevail: The Ballad of Sweeney Todd

The Pope Francis bookclub post will run on Wednesday, since the chapter seemed apropos for...

February 2014

February 27, 2014

Coriolanus’s Lonely Love

I'd never read or seen Coriolanus before a group of friends and I went out to...

May 2013

May 25, 2013

Oh, the places you might not want to go!

Tomorrow, I get to watch my brother graduate, and I'm quite excited for him, and,...

April 2013

April 22, 2013

“You’re Gonna Have to Serve Somebody”

In yesterday's post, I talked about the unenviable invulnerability of indifference, and, it so happened...

March 2013

March 15, 2013

7 Quick Takes (3/15/13)

--- 1 --- I've joined up on one of the online campaigns for Dungeons and...

January 2013

January 22, 2013

Pulling Off the New Vulgarity

I am cautiously optimistic for Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of The Great Gatsby, though, like pretty much...

January 17, 2013

What Do We Owe All the Valjeans?

Since Les Mis seems to prompt endless reprises on this blog, you won't be surprised...

January 09, 2013

But Aren’t Saints Dreadfully Dull?

Tonight I'm seeing Les Miserables for the third time (there have been various outings as people...

December 2012

December 29, 2012

The Inspector Javert Medley [Sequence Index]

I may not have drawn little hearts in my middle school notebooks labelled "Leah +...

December 28, 2012

Javert and Valjean at Prayer

The two things I found most frustrating about the Les Mis movie were the camerawork and...

December 27, 2012

Give Me (and Javert) a Firm Place to Stand

While googling to nail down some of Javert's lyrics, I ended up on his IMDB...

December 26, 2012

Javert: No Quarter Asked or Given

I first saw Les Miserables when I was in middle school, I think, and I was...

December 25, 2012

“The Time is Now! The Day is Here!”

Things I have attended at midnight this year: The Hunger Games, The Avengers, The Dark Knight Rises, The Hobbit,...

December 10, 2012

Finishing the Imago Dei

So, apparently if I host an installment of the Stephen Sondheim film festival the night...

November 2012

November 25, 2012

“Because I am fearfully and wonderfully made”

Frankenstein is at least the great-uncle of the zombie story. The alternate title of Shelley’s...

November 21, 2012

The Monster is Father of the Man

As I warned you, I’m taking some time before I write anything specifically about being...

November 20, 2012

Singing my way to the Sacraments [Index]

In the run-up to my reception into the Catholic Church, I tried to talk a...

November 17, 2012

“No one can be what he wants me to be”

The last two song and sentiment posts have touched on problems of uncertainty. How does...