Fair Enough Play: Yessica Yu – “Quiz Lady”

We all know someone who would be great at one of those money-winning shows- but never gets the gumption to go and win the actual money. Yessica Yu’s “Quiz Lady” is about someone just like that, Anne Yum (played by Awkwafina). Anne grew up watching a “Jeopardy”-like show called “Can’t Stop the Quiz,” which offered …

Thrice Bitten (Part 1): Chris McKay -“Renfield”

Poor Bram Stoker! He had no idea that the expanding popularity of cinema and the vagaries of copyright laws would turn a well-executed, well-received epistolary horror novel into part of the foundational, subconscious mythology of anyone born after 1897. And he never got to cash-in. It’s sort of impressive that a hundred years later people …