Bay to Ocean Journal: Institutional Door by Catherine Carter

Bay to Ocean Journal: Institutional Door by Catherine Carter

​ Author’s note: the poem began with one of those everyday struggles with a heavy door, the kind that doesn’t want to open and then apparently isn’t going to close and then suddenly bangs shut, maybe catching people in it, when it occurred to me that a whole lot of not-so-literal “institutional” doors are designed […]

Spy Review: Perfect Arrangement – A Perfectly Arranged Dramedy by Steve Parks

Spy Review: Perfect Arrangement – A Perfectly Arranged Dramedy by Steve Parks

​ There’s nothing perfect about the arrangement that serves as the comic premise of Topher Payne’s Perfect Arrangement—except perhaps that it is perfectly suited for Pride Month. Directed by Joe Fox for Groove/Factory—the company formed by the merger of E.T. Wilford’s Groove Theater and Cece Storm’s Factory Arts Project—Perfect Arrangement begins as a surreal farce […]