L. Nicol Cabe

Some paranoid news has popped up recently. Let’s start with the latest on “Spider-man: Turn off the Dark”: Julie Taymor Claims there was a secret plot to fire her from “Spider-man” So, Julie Taymor, in her law suit for copyright infringement, has claimed that there was a plot behind the scenes of the near-deadly musical [...]

I broke my rule for a touring show that has, apparently, been tearing up international stages — L’Effet de Serge from Vivarium Studios, which nearly didn’t make it to Seattle because of visa trouble. The program for the show describes L’Effet de Serge: This off-key aria by the French company Vivarium Studio maliciously turns theatrical [...]

I had water onstage in one play I directed. My production of Lysistrata during my senior year of college featured the women’s chorus tossing buckets of water on the men’s chorus, exactly as called for in the play. Since we were in a small blackbox space, being an undergraduate theatre company, there was much arguing [...]

Clay Shirky is a writer and thinker, basically, about internet technologies and the economics thereof. There’s a video about his concept of cognitive surplus, and the internet, and how we use our free time, not just burnt out in front of the TV, but actually doing something via the internet: I really like his comparison [...]