15 stories by "Parabasis"
By Isaac Butler Before my wife and I both semi-retired from theatre, we rarely had to buy tickets to Broadway shows. Either through her business or my artistic connections, we generally got …
By Isaac Butler After Eric Cantor's stubborness and assholery accidentally saved the New Deal, after Mitch McConnell's hilariously craven "back-up plan" something appears to be shi…
By Isaac Butler If Michael Billington didn't exist, Americans would have to invent him so that they could continue to complain about British snobbery towards the US. Simply put, Billington's…
By Isaac Butler Intiman is inviting local theatre artists to submit blueprints for reviving the company. My guess is Paul Mullin wasn't invited.
By Isaac Butler I'm a bit late to the Sherlock party, having missed its television run and its first release on DVD. Now that it's on Netflix streaming, Anne and I have just completed the fi…
By Isaac Butler I seem to be noticing a rising tide in posts, columns, conversations, tweets, facebook status updates etc. that are driving me nuts. They are all well meaning, and genuine, I…
By Isaac Butler Longtime readers of Parabasis probably know that I'm all for loosening and restructuring (without getting rid of) copyright law. Short version: Copyright is s established in …
By Isaac Butler For a trip down memory lane to the Stonewall era, here's WaPo's Greg Sargent with a moving and precise bit of memoir writing: I grew up in the far West Village in the 1970s, …
By Isaac butler I wish I had something profound and meaningful to say about the long overdue victory for equality here in New York last night. Long time readers of Parabasis probably know th…
By Isaac Butler I spent almost exactly twenty four hours up in the Catskills as a resident artist at The Orchard Project courtesy of the good folks at The Exchange. I spent time with their c…
By Isaac Butler Today and tomorrow, I will be up in the Catskills, working as a resident artist with the Exchange's Core Company, a group of college students and recent grads who have gather…
By Isaac Butler My incompetence as a story-teller is totally Twitter and Facebook's fault.
By Isaac Butler He's talking about England, but his thoughts are here, courtesy of the Guardian online. In discussing this British habit of producing "skilfully packaged celebrity-led p…
By Isaac Butler If it's factually accurate, you can't write about it without it having already happened. At some point, all nonfiction must grapple with how it positions the past. The most c…
By Isaac Butler It's been a long time since I've gone a full week without blogging. In that week, i've had a ton of work to do for school (I was teaching an intensive course) and drove acros…
