https://smokeandmirrors.cityofsmoke.com Essays on Theater and the Arts Sun, 31 Oct 2010 19:44:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.33 https://smokeandmirrors.cityofsmoke.com/archives/756 Tue, 05 Mar 2002 18:51:02 +0000 http://smokeandmirrors.cityofsmoke.com/?p=756 Heading down to Walker Street to attend a performance of The Guys at the Flea Theater last month, I thought I was on my way to see Bill Murray reunited with Sigourney Weaver in their first professional collaboration since the Ghostbusters movies. The Guys is the two-character, three-hankie play that Jim Simpson, the Flea’s founder and artistic director (and Weaver’s husband), commissioned from a Columbia journalism professor named Anne Nelson in October of last year, after meeting her at a dinner party and hearing her talk about her experience helping a fire captain to write a series of eulogies for the Continue reading]]>