1. I’d always wanted to see a production of Beat poet Michael McClure’s controversial hippie-era-vintage play “The Beard”, which was the subject of a famous Los Angeles censorship battle back when Ronald Reagan was governor of California (other famous censorship targets in that era included “The Love Book” by Lenore Kandel). The play has just been revived in a
thoughtful new production by the venerable La Mama Etc. theater in the East Village in New York, so I got …