Things I learned from this week's Reader (8-30-05)

Theater edition.

-Denise Druczweski's Inferno is "a delightful comedy with heart."
-Corn Productions' The Bad Seed is a "laugh-out-loud spoof."
-Corn Productions is apparently associated in some way with something called "Tiff and Mom."
-"What carries [The Lion King] isn't the melodramatic plot and characters but the stagecraft."
-Wicked "offers a revisionist account of how green-skinned teen misfit Elphaba and her perky blonde schoolmate Glinda are transformed into the witches of Oz."
-"[The] Orestia ... retells the ancient Greek legend of Orestes, who murdered his mother after she murdered his father because he had slain her daughter."

Wow, Greek legend. I'm all cultured now. Thanks, Reader!