In recent years, there has been nothing that I have enjoyed more in the theater than one of the excellent new translations of French farce by David Ives at the Shakespeare Theatre. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen three of the four shows he wrote produced there, and they’ve all been delights. So when it was […]
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Theater – An Inspector Calls
When the Boy sent me the information about this production (and about the ones upcoming), I was super excited – and for a dumb reason. All the shows put on by the Shakespeare Theatre Company this fall have been under 2 hours with no intermission. Basically – movie length, and when they’re done, they’re done. […]
Theater – King John
Ok, I’m going to be honest with you straight up here. I fell asleep during this show. That’s not a way of saying this play is boring, or that you shouldn’t go, or that you wouldn’t enjoy it. It’s a way of saying I’ve been very VERY tired the last week or so and all […]
Theater – Cry It Out
I feel like a broken record lately. So much of the media I’ve consumed in recent months has been focusing on new motherhood, and it makes me feel seen and like I’m not alone. Because when you have a baby in the winter, it can feel isolating, and hard to get out there with your […]
Theater – Comedy of Errors
I have enjoyed Shakespeare for a long long time. And somewhere in my brain, I have a very basic memory of what my first experience seeing Shakespeare was. I can’t be 100% sure, but there’s some bit that niggles at me and says, “Comedy of Errors”, and I’m not sure why. It may be because […]
Theater – The Color Purple
It’s a strange thing, my theater viewing this summer. Normally I would have seen more shows than I did, but we’ll just mention the baby again as a reason why the Boy and I aren’t going out and seeing more – especially evening performances. But I’m thinking now of the last show I saw – Ain’t […]
Theater – Ain’t Too Proud
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 […]
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 […]