L. Nicol Cabe

I’ve mentioned the blog Theatre Ideas before. I have some respect for this professor’s perspective: that, despite all the rhetoric otherwise, we theatre people live in a system that relies much more on personal financial assets (or parental financial assets) than it does on hard work and determination. Much like the rest of the country, [...]

Since I catch up on the blog Theatre Ideas with some frequency, I ended up reading this article over at the Huffington Post this morning: The 15 Most Overrated Contemporary Writers. Most of this article struck me as something along the lines of, “You damn kids, get off my lawn!” in its contempt for current [...]

There’s a fantastic article in this week’s Stranger (a free newspaper here in Seattle) called “Make Art Anyway.” It focuses on MusicianCorps, a national program that is, in Seattle, being sheltered by the Arts Corps (which is based on Kennedy’s Peace Corps, while MusicianCorps was more inspired by Clinton’s AmeriCorps). I’ve done a little teaching [...]