I wish I had been a better student.

   I attended Eisenhower College for my bachelor’s degree. Don’t bother looking for it. It no longer exists. Its syllabus…

   This past Sunday, Barry Gaines, UNM Professor Emeritus, delivered a prelude to the production of Macbeth that would occupy our stage that afternoon. He reminded me of an historical fact that lived just outside the perimeter of my…

“Stars, hide your fires;

Let not light see my black and deep desires …”

                                                    — Macbeth

   We are drawn to light. It’s in our DNA.…

Without a little dramaturgy, you won’t know where you are. Dramaturgy — which sounds far too much like a major affliction — is the process of establishing physical, social, political and other contexts for a given play.

There are other functions of dramaturgy, too,…

We do love our extravaganzas, don’t we? Especially when accompanied by outrageous sums of money spent in their making. For example, Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark, Broadway’s latest budget buster, will cost $65 million by the…