Director Robert Falls Goes Minimalist

In the past few years, the director of Chicago’s Goodman Theatre has been generous with the scenery, covering the stage with enormous boulders for Desire Under the Elms or heaps of rubble for A True History of the Johnstown Flood. But with this fall’s staging of The Seagull, he’s dropping the fancy production values and concentrating entirely on his actors.

Books By The Yard – The Annual Library Sale

“Probably all of the volunteer-run, big library book sales around the country have discussed the issue of hand scanners, and probably there are yearly re-hashings of the discussion. Some libraries have forbidden the scanners at the sales (though smart phones can and do provide the same data, just a bit more slowly; are they to be banned as well, and how would that accomplished?).”