Ethics Hero: Meat Loaf
His voice may have diminished greatly over the years, but Meat Loaf, always more ham than hamburger, truly loves performing, and it shows. And his determination to give an audience everything it paid...
View ArticleThe Anti-Smoking Zealots Go To A Show
Smoking on stage is sometimes necessary, but a small and vocal group of zealots don't want to hear it---or see it, or smell it. Continue reading →
View ArticleNow THIS Is An Unprofessional Actor
Is this the most unethical theatrical performance ever? Continue reading →
View ArticleIn England, Art Designed To Show The Ugliness Of Racism Exposes The Ugliness...
Self-righteous fools should not be permitted to dictate what are proper subjects, themes or messages of art. Continue reading →
View ArticleThe Wall Street Journal’s Uncultured Culture Critic
WSJ culture critic Joanna Kaufman reveals herself as lazy, arrogant, disrespectful of artists, and most crippling of all, to be afflicted by the attention span of the average Twitter addict. Continue...
View ArticleThe Destructive, Useful, Unethical Presumption of Bigotry, Part 2: The Oscar...
The significance of the lack of blacks among the Oscar acting nominations is exactly the opposite of how it is being represented. Continue reading →
View ArticleKABOOM! The Dumbest, Most Unethical Broadway Audience Member Ever
And yet there are people who oppose capital punishment.... Continue reading →
View ArticleI Can’t Decide Which Is Worse, That “Hamilton” Is So Greedy, Or That They...
Producers of the smash hit Broadway musical “Hamilton,” soon to sweep the Tonys in historic fashion, have raised the top premium seat price to a record-obliterating $849. The previous high for...
View ArticleOpening The Door, Tit-For-Tat, And The Drunk In The “Hamilton” Audience
Those advocating that this kind of audience abuse become accepted need to pay attention. Theater cannot survive these proposed rules. What the drunken audience member did was wrong, but the cast was...
View ArticleReflections On My Final Visit To “The Greatest Show On Earth”
Traditions and institutions that we assume are strong and will last forever can vanish, casualties of random, unrelated factors, changes in the culture elsewhere, apathy, bad decisions, bad luck, and...
View ArticleGive My Regards To Broadway
The retreat of live professional theater on the highest level into the remote, elitist niches now occupied by symphony orchestras, opera companies and ballet will leave a large void in the culture, as...
View ArticleEthics Poll: How Bad Does A Theatrical Performance Have To Be To Ethically...
I know a LOT about this topic...
View ArticleHere Is How Free Expression Is Valued In Those Wonderful English-Speaking...
Looks like the Brits took the lesson of countryman George Orwell's "1984" the wrong way...
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