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Thom Dunn is a Boston-based writer, musician, and utterly terrible dancer. He is the singer/guitarist for the indie rock/power-pop the Roland High Life, as well as a staff writer for the New York Times’ Wirecutter and a regular contributor at BoingBoing.net. Thom enjoys Oxford commas, metaphysics, and romantic clichés (especially when they involve whiskey), and he firmly believes that Journey's "Don't Stop Believing" is the single greatest atrocity committed against mankind. He is a graduate of Clarion Writer's Workshop at UCSD ('13) & Emerson College ('08).

Oh Hey What's Up Kate Burton

This past weekend, we began previews for our production of The Seagull at the Huntington. I can say without bias that this is the funniest Chekhov play I've ever seen (and possibly the first time I've actually looked Chekhov to be humorous). But on top of that, the production also features Kate Burton (aka Vice President Sally Langston on Scandal plus like a million other things) and her real-life son, Morgan Ritchie, as the onstage mother-and-son Arkadina and Konstantin, which is pretty cool. Here are two videos I put together about the show, which runs through April 6 at the BU Theatre: 

THE SEAGULL deals with a fictional family onstage, but the Huntington's production also extends to three generations of the real-life Burton family. Kate Burton and her son Morgan Ritchie discuss their experience playing an onstage mother-and-son, while director Maria Aitken shares her own history with Kate's parents, Richard Burton and Sybil Christopher.
What's so funny about tragedy, anyway? Come behind the scenes of Chekhov's passionate classic with cast members Kate Burton, Morgan Ritchie, Auden Thornton, Marc Vietor, Nael Nacer, and Ted Koch, along with director Maria Aitken. THE SEAGULL plays March 7 - April 6, 2014 at the Avenue of the Arts / BU Theatre.