In this life one can be truly in love with only a precious few significant beings at most. Don’t trust me when I talk of Mehitabel; my devotion is unconditional. She is the embodiment of everything ...

Don Marquis, a native of Walnut in Bureau County, was a prolific author who might be best remembered as the creator of archy, a wry literary cockroach, and his feline love, mehitabel. (The insect, as ...

I have been told that the cockroach is of all insects the most repellant; as I have never seen one, I have no reason to doubt the accuracy of this judgement. It creates, however, horrible problems in ...

ASHLAND — Oregon Cabaret Theatre”s summer offering is “archy and mehitabel,” directed and choreographed by Jim Giancarlo and based on poems by journalist Don Marquis of the New York Sun. The book is ...

In 1916, writer-columnist Don Marquis introduced the characters of Archy and Mehitabel in The New York Sun. Archy was a little cockroach who thought himself a poet and believed that "creative ...

The always working Carolyn Hennesy has finally found some time to mount the L.A. boards again. Carolyn takes on the co-title role of Mehitabel in Dan Gilvezan's The Secret World of Archy & Mehitabel ...

What could possibly come of the strange collaboration between a tiny, six-legged creature whose ancestors walked with the dinosaurs, and an overworked, overwrought newspaper man in New York City?

Twenty years into the Andrew Lloyd Webber era, using actors to portray cats hardly seems extraordinary. But having a man play a roach – that’s a different story. The Orlando Opera Company has come up ...

Did you know that Mel Brooks co-wrote an Archy and Mehitabel musical? I didn’t, until after I wrote about the Don Marquis books about the cockroach and catthe other day. Eartha Kitt — Eartha Kitt! — ...

ARCHY the cockroach crawled slowly from his hiding place under a sink and looked outside. There was devastation everywhere: burned-out buildings, fallen skyscrapers, craters a mile deep and no sign of ...