Originally posted in 2011. When I adapted the Hawthorne short story “The May-Pole of Merrymount” for Metropolitan Playhouse’s Hawthornicopia festival in early ’08, Michael Criscuolo provoked a diatribe from me when he interviewed me on his now defunct blog NYTheatremike. The offending question: “Did you have to read Hawthorne in high school? My answer was some varia…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:03AM on July 4, 2013