The Gloucester Stage Company, Hacked

You may not have noticed - unless you spent Friday night clicking onto the Gloucester Stage Company's website - but a hacker posted graphic images of injured children and war rubble where ads for musicals usually can be found.

The company described the message as supporting Hezbollah, and suspected the hack occurred because Gloucester Stage's co-founder and artistic director is Israel Horovitz (below). Alerted Friday night, the company's webmaster took the website down and re-secured it so that it could be back up and running Saturday morning.

"It's not even a mosquito bite," said Horovitz, reached on his cellphone today. "It's just somebody hacking a little theater's computer at a time when bombs are falling on families."

"In a way," he continued, "it's ironic because I just, the night before it happened, had a play on at The Cherry Lane called "Beirut Rocks," which is specifically about the fighting there, that took a point of view that everybody's right and everybody's wrong and they've got to stop before they kill their children."