David A. Miller

WHITE HOUSE MEMO In Economic Drama, Bush Is Largely Offstage By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG President Bush is appearing more detached from the nation’s economic reality, focusing on foreign affairs as others speak for his administration.

What a great article.  (Thanks Finn for the tip.)

I am always so pleased when my friends are participating in creating additions to the dignified Canon of Western Theater with soon-to-be-classic plays such as this one.

Here’s one answer.  Who knew?  (Thanks to Adam for the tip.)

30 minutes to the Oscars.  I care more about the New York Rangers game thats on right now than the Oscars, but I also appreciate the overlap:  Assistant Coach Mike Pelino is wearing a wireless mic tonight and one of the pieces that they showed was Mike talking to the booth about the fact that…

Flesh hypocrisy: The world’s first self-proclaimed vegan strip club has opened in Portland, Oregon. Casa Diablo Gentlemen’s Club is owned by Johnny, who says the strippers cannot wear any leather, fur, silk or wool and no animal products are on the menu. One dancer said: “I’ve been a vegan for 3 1/2 years and I…

“I would like to say that there isn’t anywhere to go from here, is there, unless, like some exemplars, recent ones, I could get a pat on the head from the Pope.” I wish I was more like Doris Lessing.  Doris Lessing rocks.

Many of my colleagues and those that I admire post Edna Vincent Millay.  I am not as literary as they are.  My poetry post is this: Student, why do you dream of me When you dream of your acre of trees? It was agreed I came to burn leaves It’s all I ever claimed to…

I’m guest blogging on the Empire State Partnership’s new blog this month.   It’s a series of Radical Rules based on this premise: If I apply the dictums that I have learned as a theater director to my practice as director of education and to the efforts of the education program, great arts in education work…