Reading and Roaming
Here are notes on two beach reads, my thoughts on a difficult play, and a great restaurant find for birthdays or anniversaries. LEISURE READING Karen White’s Flight Patterns is an absorbing novel about family secrets and the tortured relationship between two sisters and a good candidate to take to the beach. Set in New Orleans and …
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What follows are paeans to lively performers and great theater (Born Yesterday and The Originalist) along with comments on two challenging films. MUSICAL RICHES I swear you’d think we live in a big city given all the musical offerings we have! In the last two weeks, we had the return of handsome baritone John Brancy (this time …
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Visitors from the North You know it’s winter up north when your friends and relatives start showing up in Florida. Over the past few weeks, we’ve enjoyed getting together with a former colleague from San Francisco, entertaining two of the Chief Penguin’s former graduate students and their three almost adult children (do we feel old?), …
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Fabulous Fun. Asolo Repertory Theater’s production of Guys and Dolls is the perfect antidote for any lingering post-election blues. Energetic, boisterous, lively, romantic, it’s hard to find enough adjectives to describe the sheer fun of it all. I had never seen this musical before and was caught up in the music and the fast-paced dancing. …
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