Last evening I started teaching a three-week graduate intensive called Theatre Practices: Problems in Play Production, the Development of New Plays at NYU Steinhardt’s Program in Educational Theatre.  As a bit of a disclaimer, I inherited the title of the course, so I want to be clear that I don’t necessarily think that play development automatically equals a play production “problem.”  I’m not sure how the title came about, as the course was written before my time at NYU, but I do thoroughly enjoy teaching the course.

Another one bites the dust, people.  These politicians should rethink their chosen professions if they’re going to do these kinds of things.  I’m not a prude, but people in public office need to be a little more careful with tweeting, Facebooking, etc.  So far, this is what sets Barack Obama heads and shoulders above any other public figure this country has seen in a long time.

Sarah Palin’s recent American history gaffe represents just one more moment in a long line of moments that illustrate quite clearly that she should not be a candidate to lead any governing body, including the PTA at her kids’ school. No offense to the PTA presidents of the world.