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Balkans via Bohemia: October 2013
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Music Media. Playwriting. Politics. International Intrigues. Friday, October 25, 2013. Welcome to those of you who have ended up here at Balkans via Bohemia by way of my article in The Baffler. On the Luddites. ( "A Nod to Ned Ludd". I am a playwright and editor in America's Mid-Atlantic region. My latest play, Nero/Pseudo. Will be performed this spring by WSC/Avant Bard. Venue TBA.) The play features music by James Elkington ( The Zincs. Mekons, Waco Brothers, Skull Orchard, Three Johns). Widow of Yugos...
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Balkans via Bohemia: January 2014
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Music Media. Playwriting. Politics. International Intrigues. Monday, January 27, 2014. Uncle Tupelo's No Depression. On Tuesday, January 28, 2014, Sony Legacy will release a deluxe edition of one of the most important records of the past 30 years: Uncle Tupelo's No Depression. The record was first released by Rockville Records in June 1990, and slowly but surely Uncle Tupelo. Helping to establish a branch of American music that remains vital to this day. But one of the highlights of the project was not o...
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Balkans via Bohemia: February 2013
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Music Media. Playwriting. Politics. International Intrigues. Friday, February 15, 2013. Nero/Pseudo Reading in NYC. After a bit of fallow time following the delightful staged reading that WSC/Avant Bard. Held for my play Nero/Pseudo. Back on May 30, I'm delighted to be able to say (along with Ian Hunter) that this "rock'n'roll circus" is headed to New York City on Thursday, March 7, 2013. A staged reading. One night only. As a part of the Emerging Artists Theatre. S New Works series. At the Tada! Opens a...
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Balkans via Bohemia: Nero/Pseudo: Meet Alan Katz
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Music Media. Playwriting. Politics. International Intrigues. Wednesday, April 16, 2014. Nero/Pseudo: Meet Alan Katz. As part of my blogging about. Balkans via Bohemia , I will be introducing readers to members of the cast and creative team of the show.). Is very fortunate Alan Katz. And Harold Pinter's No Man's Land. Alan is also a translator, poet, dog whisperer, house manager and Tweeter (@dcdramaturg). He will contribute guest posts to Balkans via Bohemia. What's the strangest fact about the ancient w...
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Balkans via Bohemia: Our American Cousin: A Sort of Defense (Revised)
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Music Media. Playwriting. Politics. International Intrigues. Monday, April 13, 2015. Our American Cousin: A Sort of Defense (Revised). One of the most popular posts on. Balkans via Bohemia was a piece I wrote back in 2009 in response to a. Slate piece by Timothy Noah that made the argument that. Our American Cousin – the play performed at Ford’s Theatre on the night of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination 150 years ago – was a terrible play. I have edited and updated my (sort of) defense of. Noah’s piec...
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Balkans via Bohemia: The Final Five!
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Music Media. Playwriting. Politics. International Intrigues. Wednesday, May 28, 2014. So we're finally at the final five shows in the WSC Avant Bard. And tickets are going fast. Let's just say the The Shop at Fort Fringe will have the feel of the amphitheatre for these last few shows of our run. There's also been some terrific news about my musical collaborators Jon Langford. As we head into the home stretch. With an article in early May in the granddaddy of all rock publications: Rolling Stone. Press Re...
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Balkans via Bohemia: Our American Cousin: A Sort of Defense
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Music Media. Playwriting. Politics. International Intrigues. Friday, February 13, 2009. Our American Cousin: A Sort of Defense. As far as cultural criticism goes, Slate. Has - in its 13 years of existence - been dedicated to the proposition that lazy and superficial snark is the optimal mode of discourse. (I wrote about this a bit in my article about the web magazine. In the Boston Phoenix. Back in 2003.). Of Our American Cousin. It's an oh-so- Slate. What was it like to watch? Insert heavy sigh here....
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Balkans via Bohemia: April 2013
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Music Media. Playwriting. Politics. International Intrigues. Monday, April 22, 2013. Charlotte Brontë and Robert Southey: A Correspondence. A few days ago, The Nation. Posted a powerful article by Deborah Copaken Kogen. My So-Called 'Post-Feminist' Life in Arts and Letters". That sketched out the immense vicissitudes of her publishing career as a woman. At the end of her article, Kogen cites a single line of a letter written in 1837 by Robert Southey. And, um, the Luddites. So I couldn't resist the u...
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F.A.M.E. – Food, Arts, Music and Everything-Like-That | CzechingIn
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A blog about an English lady in Prague. Czech out Czech land – Photo Page. FamE – Food, Arts, Music and Everything-Like-That. FamE – Food, Arts, Music and Everything-Like-That. Now, I don’t often do reviews of events or restaurants on this blog, as I generally prefer to document happy musings of random events or to recount a lovely weekend or similar. However, I’m a busy bee and write regularly for Expats.cz. And the Guardian travel website. Article on JetSettlers Magazine:. Expats.cz article on the.
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