Tynan's Anger

Arts & Culture Commentary from a Loving Digital Skeptic

The Best of Tynan’s Anger

In the midst of reshuffling the purpose of this blog, I have decided to provide a neat little summary of where it has been from 2008-Present: Major Features: The Top 10 Quotes from English-language Drama This Decade: Part One: Quotes 10-6 Part Two: Quotes 5-3 Part Three: Quotes 2-1 Rock N Roll Case Studies: #1: [...]

How Michael Riedel is killing theater criticism

Watch this episode of Theater Talk very carefully. Michael Riedel, the instigator of most of the conversation, is not treating the death of theater criticism as a “what if” question. He’s treating it as a given. If the aforementioned death hasn’t happened already, it will, in Riedel’s viewpoint. Very subtly, he manipulates the conversation to [...]

The rise and fall of Mel Brooks

Mel Brooks has gone through many stages of his career, from TV genius to film schlockmeister to mastermind behind one of the great musicals of the past decade. In the two former fields, he faced an embarrassing decline, and, sadly, it’s looking like the same is now happening to Mel Brooks the Tony-winner. After the [...]