| Tigers' 'other guy' Jones looks to help
I just start laughing," Jones said, looking to his right at the row of lockers that includes Cabrera and Ordonez, as well as Edgar Renteria, Gary Sheffield and Carlos Guillen. "It's like an All-Star convention. Those guys can hit. Those guys can play." With those guys around, it is easy to get overlooked, even when your manager begins the spring by predicting that you are going to have a big year. Jim Leyland said just that about Jacque Jones, the "other guy" the Tigers traded for last winter. "I think quietly he's been a big addition," Leyland said. "I know we haven't played yet, but I think he's going to be a huge addition." .
Strawdog's 'Richard III' fails the test of character
Director Nic Dimond describes himself in a program note as "a reluctant Shakespeare fan." Maybe that's why a pervading aura of ambivalence hangs over his production of "Richard III" at Strawdog Theatre Company.
It's not a terrible show by any means. The script has been adroitly cut and shaped for a swifter pace than usual, and the large cast skillfully negotiates the always-tight Strawdog space. But as is too often the case with storefront Shakespeare in Chicago, it's also not astounding enough conceptually to make up for the uneven performances in the ensemble. If you don't have actors who can knock the poetry of Shakespeare out of the park, you should at least provide some fresh insights into the world of the play. Here, some of the actors were inaudible as soon as they turned upstage.
Has SNL found its Fauxbama?
Saturday Night Live finally may have found its Fauxbama. Word has it in comedy circles that Donald Glover, a writer for Tina Feys sitcom 30 Rock, will begin performing on SNL with this weekends episode, the shows first since the end of the writers strike. .
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