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Can AI Write and Compose a Successful Musical?

I stand before you as the enemy of silicon, except when it fills broad sandy beaches, enables handy digital devices...

A Whale of a Character

The creators of the musical, The Further Shores of Knowing, approached me to join their production as a director and...

Joy & Light vs. Darkness & Despair: Living on the Edge of ‘Flippity’

Nations rise and fall. Political figures come and go. And nothing dates as quickly as today’s news. But if you...

This Meme’s For You

With this blog we gear up for a more concerted social media presence — wish us luck! In so doing,...

A Hero that Stands for “Nothing”?

Thanks to gravity, humans need to feel the ground beneath their feet. Similarly, above us, and in the horizontal plane,...

The Further Shores Ain’t Kansas

The Wizard of Oz has delighted audiences for over eighty years. For me, Yip Harburg’s lyrics stand out as among the...

“Some Will Listen”

The Zeitgeist — which, from the German, translates as “spirit of the age” — has in our time become a...

That Clean, Aristotelian Feeling

I asked a friend the other day what he desired most from a dramatic performance. His response was, I want...

The Timeliness of The Further Shores

In early March of 2020, the concerns around Covid-19 were reaching its height. In response, Broadway suddenly went dark. This...