There comes a time in all our lives when we are no longer as “with it” as we would hope. Maybe that one topic on which you were an expert is one where you are falling behind. You’re not listening to the cool music anymore. You’re not keeping up with the popular TV shows. Your […]
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Theater – Hamilton
I’m not going to beat around the bush here, you clicked the link. You see the title. The picture is right there – I saw Hamilton. And it was amazing. But humor me while I tell a story about all the drama leading up to the show. Tickets to Hamilton were difficult to get – […]
Theater – Camelot
It’s amazing the kind of things we let ourselves think we’re familiar with. So many movies, tv shows and theatrical performance has permeated our general pop culture that it’s easy to think, “Oh, I’ve seen that, right?” I am that way with a lot of movies. I’m pretty sure I haven’t seen Citizen Kane or […]
Theater – Waiting for Godot
There are certain things that as a cultured person you feel you ought to know, or read or see. There have been times when – despite being an aficionado of pop culture – I have failed myself profusely on some of these popular culture touchstones in literature, theater, movies and television. And I felt really […]
Theater – The Winter’s Tale
My father-in-law was recently in town, and we were trying to think of things to do with him and the girls while he was here. He’s visited the Boy before, so many of the touristy things were off the table. And then we were sitting in the kitchen and looked at the bulletin board we […]
Theater – Noura
It’s not too often we get to see something new at the Shakespeare Theatre. Not just plays that are brand-spanking new, but modern ones. There will be one every few years or so, but the company likes to lean on Shakespeare, shows from a slightly later era that may have been rewritten, or “modern” (meaning […]
Theater – Hamlet
When you think about the great works of theater of all time, if you haven’t included Hamlet on your list, you’re probably not putting your list together very well. And it seems that every high schooler in America (and probably in England as well) is made to study the show. Unfortunately for me, that wasn’t […]
Theatre – The Humans
You may have noticed a lot more posts about theatrical productions happening at the Kennedy Center from the past month. There’s good reason for that – 18 months ago when the touring production of Hamilton was announced to be coming to the Kennedy Center, one of the things that was also announced was that the […]
Theater – On Your Feet
One of the most frustrating parts of being a musical-theater aficionado in the past few decades is watching the laziness of the genre. By this, I mostly mean watching the focus on new musicals be either of jukebox style, or based on movies. Sure – when properly adapted, the movie musicals tend to be more […]
Theater – An American in Paris
There are a lot of classic movies I haven’t seen. Or that I haven’t seen all the way through. The one that drives the Boy the battiest is Casablanca. That’s meant to be one of the all-time greats, if not the greatest movie, and I have seen the first third, and maybe the end, and […]