An audio recitation of Robert Browning's "Porphyria's Lover."

A new essay from your resident contrarian.

There are a myriad number of stories of great writers being burned by Hollywood. At the beginning of the sound age, dramatists of note...

Greetings, readers! I hope you all had a nice holiday season and are as ready for the New Year as I am. 2024 was both challenging and...

Growing up as an actor, I always believed actors were born, not made. Certainly, one can learn techniques of speaking and movement,...

Not all holidays are created equally, but there is a ubiquity about them. It is necessary, for example, to have a bright spot in the...

Note: This is not meant to be a criticism of the entirety of the Me Too movement, but one story of those who exploited it for...

As you read this, we are in the second day of summer, a season I appreciate (for all the life, the beauty, the cooling pool outside, the...

Whenever I contemplate who America’s dramatic masters are, my answer is always Eugene O’Neill and Edward Albee. The reason for this is...

I was perhaps in my junior year of high school when the news broke that, after many years of speculation and debate, Thomas Jefferson,...

Last week, in reviewing Netflix’ new docuseries The Outreau Case: A French Nightmare, I brusquely went over a subject near and dear—the...

While during his lifetime, his work became more and more critically derided, there has been a resurgence of interest in American...

I’m still vertical. It’s a low bar for living, but there you are. After this experience—rehearsing for my first stage role in nearly 20...

Prefatory Note: I acknowledge I can never understand the suffering women have experienced and continue to experience in instances of...

I recently got the exciting news that a short play of mine, Approaching the Summer Sun, is slated for publication in the first issue of...

For this final week of May, Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, I conclude celebrating my mentor and teacher David Henry...

This work contemplates, albeit in a slightly deranged way, the events of protest in the United States in the years 2016-2019. It makes no...

I remember reading Neal Gabler’s Walt Disney. A magnificent book, supposedly the first to tell of the man’s warts as well as his...

I can remember being as young as six and needing books around me constantly, though I wasn't sure I could read well. I liked books, the...

For the next few weeks, I'll be sharing my favorite works of art. These are not necessarily my answers to "What is the best movie/tv...