April 16, 1869: The Union Flag regaled its readers with a funny story. âA little fellow had a dirty face and his teacher told him to go and wash it. He went out and stayed for a few minutes, and then came back with the lower half of his countenance tolerably clean and the upper half wet and dirty. âJohnny,â said the teacher, âwhy did you not wash your face?â âI did wash it,â said Johnny. âWhy did you not wipe it, then all over?â âI did wipe it as high as my shirt tail would reach,â was Johnnyâs conclusive reply.â
Mint Theater Company will continue its Silver Lining Streaming Series with the on-demand streaming of the three-camera archival recording (filmed in HD!) of Katie Roche by Teresa Deevy, directed by Jonathan Bank, beginning FEBRUARY 1st and continuing through MARCH 28th The price of admission is FREE. To receive a password, visit MintTheater.org.
Days To Come by Lillian Hellman (The Little Foxes, Watch on the Rhine, Toys in the Attic, The Children s Hour), directed by J.R. Sullivan, continues through FEBRUARY 21st. Days To Come turns out to be a gripping piece of storytelling, one whose failure and subsequent obscurity make no sense at all. This is the 14th Mint Theater revival that I ve reviewed since 2005, and the 14th time I ve raved about the results. Such unfailing excellence merits much wider recognition. If you ve yet to see what the Mint can do, start here! said Terry Teachout in The Wall Street Journal.