Peter Sinn Nachtrieb’s “The Totalitarians” has received much critical praise for its farcical take on modern-day democracy in America.  Set in Nebraska, where the candidate for lieutenant governor is something of a cross between Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann (with perhaps a touch of malaprop-inclined George W. Bush thrown in), the play is riotous until […]

Megalomania: A condition or mental illness that causes people to think they have unlimited power or importance. -Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary I am not a psychiatrist or a psychologist or a physician.  But certain psychological deficits are self-evident.  I don’t, for example, think I need to be a professional to analyze an individual who is schizophrenic.  I […]

The sixty-sixth season of Music Circus summer productions of popular musicals kicked off last week with the musical version of “Legally Blonde.”  The play is based on the film (from Amanda Brown’s novel) that starred Reese Witherspoon and was such a big hit that it led to a sequel.  The musical (music and lyrics by […]

Donald Trump isn’t a bigot.  He loves the Mexican-Americans and they love him.  Just ask him.  He’ll tell you.  He just wants to build a wall so the rapists and criminals can’t commit their heinous crimes in the United States. And he doesn’t think a judge of Mexican heritage is a bad judge.  He just […]