On Saturday morning everything seemed normal. Jim and I went at to breakfast at Luna in The Castro. It was crowded. The waiter divided a “four top” made up of two small tables, so the two gents next to us were sitting very close indeed. I couldn’t help but eavesdrop a [...]

Today’s edition of the University of Maryland’s student newspaper features a story on the student-produced and directed Grand Guignol play that I mentioned here yesterday. The Lab: An Experiment in Grand Guignol gets high marks from student reporter Dave Smith, though his article could have used another proof-read and a healthy dose of judicious editing:
“The [...]

An actor at the University of Maryland writes about his experiences performing in a Grand Guignol production on campus:
“I’m very thankful for this opportunity to explore such an obscure artform, one that is seldom done anymore. Grand Guignol is such a melodramatic, overly-exaggerated way of theatre. It definitely goes for shock value, using realistic scenes [...]

The first reviews of our new show Hypnodrome Head Trips are starting to trickle in. In her review for the San Francisco Bay Times titled “A Grand Time at Grand Guignol,” Linda Ayres-Frederick writes:
With high technical production values, Thrillpeddlers lives up to their name, delivering thrills that stimulate the mind and other portions of the [...]

The reviews are in for CanStage’s revival of The Rocky Horror Show, which opened last week at the Bluma Appel Theatre in Toronto, and they’re not pretty.
Paula Citron of the Globe and Mail writes:
Pity the poor Rocky Virgins, that distinct underclass of society who has never experienced either the stage or movie versions of [...]