(A couple months later, ’cause writing and thinking take time!) Passover is a holiday about freedom. It celebrates the liberation of the Israelites, the forerunners of the Jewish people, from slavery in Egypt, as told in Exodus (or, for the less Biblically inclined, in Dreamworks’s Prince of Egypt or by…
I already knew theatre was valuable to me. It taught me skills I still use in my career. It helped me become more confident in the way I conduct myself day-to-day and opened my eyes to new ideas and ways to see the world. But despite all that, I’ve always…
The other day at the gym, I overheard a group of teen guys chatting about their graduation ceremonies and who’d get to sit at whose table. They talked about a girl who “never asks you questions back, like, no matter how many times you ask her. She just gives you…
There are lots of classic comedy icons I love, but any fundamentals I know about comedy, I learned from Looney Toons. The way my mom feels about Star Trek, my dad feels about Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck. Because I was so young the first hundred times I watched classic…