New Yorker: “While it is no shock that Streep and Wolfe are faithful to Brecht’s theatrical philosophy, it comes as a pleasant surprise to see Kevin Kline invest himself to a similar degree. Kline—who was the terrifying Nathan in ‘Sophie’s Choice,’ and Trigorin to Streep’s Arkadina in Mike Nichols’s 2001 production of ‘The Seagull’—is, quite possibly, the best partner Streep has had onstage or onscreen.”

BBC: “Speaking to the Radio Times, the Evita composer said he did not have ‘a huge desire’ to write another musical.”

The Village Voice‘s Izzy Grinspan offers an interesting dichotomy: do people prefer Rent or The Warriors? He has a point. I’m a huge fan of The Warriors, but if I hear “We won’t be back before it’s Christmas day / Take me out tonight” one more time, I may have to hole myself up in the apartment with AC/DC and bust out the bourbon.

Back in 1993, when I had grand plans of forming an improvisational troupe in Sacramento that fizzled, I wrote down a list of all of the games in Whose Line Is It Anyway? that I used for auditioning potential actors. I lost the list many years ago, which is just as well, seeing how terrible my handwriting is. Thankfully, Wikipedia ha a list of nearly all of the games used on both the UK and the US incarnations of the program.

Also, if this is true, I had no idea that Tony Slattery went through a midlife crisis where he refused to answer the door and the telephone for six months.