Here are some of the things I’ve written over the last eight months that hadn’t otherwise appeared on this blog.
- An interview with Damon Wayans, pictured here, about his new sitcom “Poppa’s House,” for AARP magazine online.
- Similarly, a Q&A with Reba McEntire about her own new sitcom “Happy’s Place” and her role on “The Voice” for AARP (though you might have to be a member to read this one).
- A history of mail-in voting, presented by the National Postal Museum and written for Smithsonian Magazine.com
- A review of Bruce Springsteen‘s Halloween show in Montreal that first appeared in The Vinyl District.
- Catching Nick Lowe with Los Straitjackets at the Atlantis, for the Vinyl District.
- Watching Ben Folds recording a live album with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center.
- Other rock reviews that appeared on my Substack that had also been in Vinyl District for The Go! Team at the Black Cat; Billy Bragg at the 9:30 Club; The Magnetic Fields, doing half their 69 Love Songs at the Lincoln Theatre; a showcase of DC Legends by BandHouse Gigs; apparently not a farewell tour by the Righteous Brothers, a barroom gig by The Rubinoos; Elvis Costello teaming up with Daryl Hall at Wolf Trap; Beck doing his own concert with the National Symphony Orchestra; and a Robert Plant / Alison Krauss makeup gig at Wolf Trap.
- Many theater reviews for Broadway World, including “Dixie’s Tupperware Party,” which ran at the Kennedy Center before Tupperware went bankrupt; an experimental filming of a work called “Homeless Garden” at Avant Bard, an unusual musical about Eva Perón’s corpse, “Mummy in the Closet,” at GALA Hispanic Theatre, a nationally touring company of the musical “Mean Girls”; and two Irish works, “Shaw’s Shorts” and “An Irish Carol”; and a Step Afrika! Holiday Show.
- There were a couple of provocative things at Studio Theatre, “The Colored Museum” and “Exception to the Rule”; and a Second City show, “Dance Like There’s Black People Watching” at Woolly Mammoth.
- I covered two creative adaptations of Brontë and Shakespeare at the Capital Hill Arts Workshop, a commedia dell’arte “The Moors” by Faction of Fools and Riot Grrrls “The Tragedie of Macbeth” by Taffety Punk.
- Musical events for Broadway World included Laura Benanti and Jordan Fisher headlining “Broadway in the Park” at Wolf Trap, Pink Martini marking their 30th anniversary at the Kennedy Center; and two cabarets focusing on jazz women and Stax Records at Signature Theatre