Whenever you spend enough time with a subset of culture, you start to develop opinions and start to recognize patterns and tropes. Maybe you love all the Shonda Rhimes shows, and you notice her reuse of actors across different shows, or phrases that come up again and again. Or you ADORE sci-fi movies, and will […]
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Theater – Natasha Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812
Ok guys, I’m going to do a little bragging up front: I’ve read War and Peace. I know, I know. I’m awesome. You can stop applauding now. How does one read a tome like that? By having a very long commute, and using audiobooks. I’m talking nearly 40 CDs. It was a lot. I think […]
Theater – The Sound of Music
When I was in middle school, I was in a production of the Sound of Music. I played the third von Trapp child/second daughter – Louisa. It’s not a particularly exciting role. But being part of that unit of “the von Trapp children” was very exciting. Probably the biggest part of the that production for […]
Theater – The School for Lies
I think there are a lot of people out there who assume that because a story is old, or it’s performed in a manner dissimilar from the kinds of things they’d see in movies or television that it can’t be funny. That French farce is too fancy, and not the kind of thing that will […]
Theater – Macbeth
I like to think of myself as a Shakespeare aficionado, but even having had season tickets to the Shakespeare Theatre, and going to Shakespearean performances at other places, it’s kind of amazing the number of shows that I have neither read nor seen performed. And not just the obscure titles, but I didn’t see Hamlet […]
Theater – Fun Home
I don’t know about you, but I love my mom. As in, we actually get along pretty well and we’re kind of friends. I don’t tell her everything that I tell friends who are closer to my age, but we have a lot of similar interests, and we email on a pretty consistent basis. One […]
Theater – The Select (The Sun Also Rises)
Do you ever find things in your life well timed? Almost like the universe had coordinated for you to see or hear a thing at a specific moment? I’ve had a time like that lately – our most recent show at the Shakespeare Theatre was The Select, an adaptation of “The Sun Also Rises” by […]
Theater – The Hard Problem
Back in mid-January the Boy sent me a message on facebook with a review of “The Hard Problem”, a link without context. Not a particularly glowing review, but reading the summary of the play, I immediately messaged back “Yes please”. His reply to that? “Yeah that’s what I thought”. So what’s the story that immediately […]
Theater – King Charles III
I have always been an Anglophile, and from my mother, part of that was a fascination with the British Royals. We watched Diana’s funeral (I fell asleep) and William and Kate’s wedding (I took the day off work and barely slept the night before). Meeting and dating an Englishman of my very own feels like […]
Theater – Waitress
I love a musical. I’ve said it a few times before, I’ll say it again. I also know that by having the opportunity to visit New York and see a Broadway show in its original run, I am very very lucky. It’s not something I’m ever going to take for granted. So when we were […]