A Doll’s House

Earlier this month, Josh Hitchens directed a production of Henrik Ibsen’s play A Doll’s House, starring West Philly actors Jennifer Summerfield and Ryan Walters. The entire play was staged within the parlor of the Ebeneezer Maxwell Mansion, a preserved Victorian-era mansion up near Germantown. The photo above shows Jen,who plays… Continue reading

Alp d’Huez

(Entry updated June 2013, because the video was made public on YouTube). Sometimes video projects don’t start out as public projects. One example is Alp d’Huez, a wonderful play by John Rosenberg. In November 2012, I was asked by Jennifer Summerfield, who was one of the two leads, and her… Continue reading

“The Screening Room of Dr. Caligari”

This review of Hollywood vs. America by Michael Medved (Harper/Collins 1992) appeared in two magazines. The beginning sections discussing Medved’s treatment of movies appeared in Z Magazine (date forgotten).  The later section, “The Statistics of Baron Munchausen,” was published in The Humanist, January-February 1993 under the title “Michael Medved Drowns by Numbers.”  Continue reading