And then the day came, when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to Blossom. ©Nick Bantock

I realized recently that so many of my "Ask Al" questions come either from curious laymen, or artists who are either in training o...

About Broadway Backwards: "Broadway Backwards is the annual celebration where men sing songs originally written for women and...

“The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the...

playing Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream hosting the Chicago edition of The Hanukkah Hoedown! feeling more lonely than I eve...

Green, how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches. The ship out on the sea and the horse on the mountain. With the shade around he...

- Facebook - expectations - super late nights - Gluten - Most grains - Letting myself go down that deep, dark spiral… - Negative self-talk -...

COMEDIES The Taming of the Shew - The Shrewdriver A Midsummer Night's Dream - Bottom’s Up, Puck’s Fizz Twelfth Night - What you Wi...

it wis January and a gey dreich day the first day Ah went to the school so my Mum happed me up in ma good navy-blue napp coat wi the rid ta...

Dear Sasha,  The cold has truly settled in here in Chicago and we’re looking forward to -17 as a high temp on Wednesday. It is warmer in V...

20. We met high above   Chicago. Both in pain. But   you shared your heartbreak- -for a collection   of moments my soul was n...

To a Child at the Piano by Alastair Reid Play the tune again: but this time with more regard for the movement at the source of it and l...