FIVE PLUS ANDY & JERRY & MORE
The late Jerry Herman can be accused of many things: “glitzy optimism,” a smiling and inviting personality, lyrics he wrote that jump off the... Read more →
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Nero Fiddled. A French Queen Offered Cake. It Did Not Go Well.
I know a headline like that makes very little sense in the 21st century, but these are highly abnormal times, with an entrenched pandemic, raging... Read more →
An Emmett Till That Resonates On Zoom
It’s been too many months since any of us have set foot in a real theatre to see a real stage show, surrounded — elbow to elbow — by fellow... Read more →
Pandemics Old & New: Two Letters
At the end of World War I, my grandmother Louly Arbib Barda, my mother’s mother, sat down in Alexandria, Egypt, to write a six-page letter to her... Read more →
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Waiting It Out
Thursday, March 12, 2020, 6:30pm. It’s pitch dark. Still. The power went out at 3:15pm, so there’s no light. The stock market went down... Read more →
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A Sheep In Serpent‘s Clothing
In its ongoing 50th Anniversary, revisiting productions it had tackled in its foundational year or thereabouts, the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble has just... Read more →
A Winter’s Fairy Tale
You’ll notice that the headline above has added a word to the title of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale. It’s there because a fairy tale is... Read more →
Not Ready For Prime Time
Full disclosure: I’m a couple of generations removed from that of the creators of the Vampire Cowboys’ Revenge Song now rattling rafters and... Read more →
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As Shadows Fall…
Anyone who's had a close brush with the devastation of a mind that has lost its moorings knows what a profound tragedy that can be. You listen and... Read more →
A Lilting Model of Jane Austen’s Emma
It’s hard these days to find a musical written for the sheer lighthearted fun of it, one that may not shake the earth, but can provide some welcome... Read more →
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