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Articles by Matthew Clinton Sekellick
I Still Feel Like Myself: Simple Arithmetic - The Alt
When I was in elementary school, I remember laying in bed at night marveling at the fact that I was nearing the end of sixth grade. The inevitability of time passing was right there for me to see. I’d been through repeated cycles of school years and it dawned on me that I would repeat another six years, be off to college, then on and on into my adult life and pursuits. I have friends a decade or two younger than me who are in their forties or have turned fifty.
The Divide: 'Tis the Season to Raise Questions - The Alt
The end of the year brings out everyone’s Top Ten picks for the year. The top ten movies, the top ten albums, the top ten books, etc. Sorry to disappoint you, I don’t have a list of top ten anything, what I do have is a stocking full of questions leading into 2018. I’ll divide these into three categories: federal, state, and local. On the Federal level: Can America survive another year of Trump? Can Trump survive another year in office?
I Still Feel Like Myself: Go to the lights - The Alt
“Hello, this is the police.” About ten years ago I awoke to the sound of that phrase being spoken at a confident volume in my house. It was about midnight and I had this highly unusual experience of an unfamiliar voice summoning from slumbers, far different from Barbara quietly intoning, “Time to get up or you’ll miss your flight.” It was Barbara who first woke to the voice outside our bedroom and saw a bright beam of light shining under door.
I Still Feel Like Myself: Waldo & The Employees - The Alt
One of the many things that occupied my mind in classes during high school was making a list of possible band names. I still have it in one of my file cabinets. I gravitated towards file cabinet storage from the time I was in my mid-twenties. It turns out not many of friends were drawn in that same direction. I still have five of them; three are tall, five-drawer models, plus a pair of shorter ones with two drawers – nineteen drawers total.
Opinion: Death of a Cinema - The Alt
The sad truth is that the proposal for an 11-screen cinema at One Monument Square deserved to die. It deserved to die far more than the proposal for a non-profit to tear down Leonard Hospital and build affordable housing, whose death resulted in Troy issuing a 2.5-million-dollar bond to tear down the aging, asbestos-filled liability. Some claim that a failure to develop the former City Hall site now, mixed with persistent NIMBYism, would give Troy a reputation bad enough to scare developers away.
Despite talented cast, "This" isn't quite it - The Alt
Do we ever really know our closest friends? Even the ones we’ve known for years? This, about a group of college friends attempting to navigate the minefield of middle age, tries to answer this question, among others – and the answer gets lost along the way. Jane (Julia Coffey), Alan (Mark H.
Sweeney Todd in the round at Mac-Haydn Theatre - The Alt
Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd is fairly well-known, especially since the release of the 2007 Tim Burton film starring (who else?) Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter. While there is a risk taken in producing new work – people hesitate to attend shows they don’t recognize – there’s also a risk taken in producing shows that are known and loved; the audience will compare the current version to all the versions they’ve seen before.
Summer theater for people bored by theater
If you’re anything like me, going to a show is one of your favorite ways to spend an evening. On the other hand, if you’re like me, you’re bored to death by most theater. Not all theater, just what we seem to get here: big aging Broadway tours and local productions of plays you’ve seen five times by directors who couldn’t stage their way out of a paper bag. Forgive my millennial hyperbole—but my theory is we’re all so used to being bored by theater that we’ve come to expect boring theater.
Cuomo’s Bait and Switch
In January, Bernie Sanders praised New York governor Andrew Cuomo’s proposed Excelsior Scholarship as a “revolutionary idea for higher education.” The plan — passed last week — offers free tuition to New York’s public colleges to students whose families earn less than $100,000 annually. Cuomo has grabbed the national spotlight with this new program, which the governor estimates will benefit nearly a million families.
Looking Up: The Trial - The Alt
As I write this, the trial of two of the young women at the center of what has become called the UAlbany/CDTA “bus incident,” was beginning. If you follow local news at all, you’ve heard a basic narrative of this incident that goes something like this: There was a fight on a bus, and three black women, students at the University at Albany, reported to police having been attacked by a group of white students after a racially tinged exchange, while being called racial slurs.
Rapp On This: Raging scum - The Alt
In 1989 a sculptor named Arturo DiModica stuck a 16 foot-long, 2 1/2 ton brass sculpture of a bull in front to the New York Stock Exchange. Without any kind of permission from anybody. He said the sculpture was in reaction to the stock market crash of 1987 and a symbol of “the strength and power of the American people.” He also mentioned that he had four more identical sculptures for sale.
The Divide: What will it take to make America safe again? - The Alt
What will it take to make America safe again? The shooting death last week of Mayor Kathy Sheehan’s adopted son’s brother, Christopher Hardy, immediately brought back sad memories for me. On Feb. 1, 2015, Super Bowl Sunday, my niece Sara was shot to death by her boyfriend in a domestic violence murder-suicide while attending Tulane Law School in New Orleans.
Guest Opinion: Vampire Light
Watching abandoned and vacant buildings, many labeled zombie properties for their in-between ownership statuses surrounding foreclosure, eerily but beautifully breathe with an otherworldly soft white glow last fall, I couldn’t help but think of a line from Marx’s Capital: “Capital is dead labour, that, vampire–like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.” Artist Adam Frelin and architect Barbara Nelson, along with teams of dozens, put together this...
Acting in Solidarity: Working for a Living Wage
On Thursday, September 10th, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a push to increase the state minimum wage to $15 an hour. On the heels of Fight for 15’s victory in New York, a movement led by fast food workers demanding $15 an hour, we can all celebrate a major victory for working people in New York. In the theatre, many of us work part- or full-time low wage service jobs to support ourselves while we create work at night, and many of us can expect a raise if this bill becomes law.
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