Reading and Roaming
WONDERFUL THEATER! Born with Teeth (Asolo Repertory Theatre) Born with Teeth is a recent play (2022) by Liz Duffy Adams. It debuted at the Alley Theatre in Houston and is now being presented around the country. It’s a historical play with just one setting and two actors in three scenes set in a London tavern in 1592 and 1593. The …
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PURE ESCAPISM Crazy for You at the Asolo Theatre With music and lyrics by the Gershwin brothers, this classic of American musical theater was an afternoon of romance, some hijinks, and lots and lots of dancing! In 1930 in a dead-end town in Nevada, earnest Bobby Child tries to revive the theater he’s been sent to shut …
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BOOK OF THE WEEK Trespasses by Louise Kennedy Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, this first novel portrays gritty daily life in Belfast and its environs. The tension between neighboring Catholics and Protestants is often escalated by seemingly random acts of violence. Cushla, a young elementary school teacher, lives with her alcoholic mother and helps occasionally at …
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PURE ENTERTAINMENT The Three Musketeers We had almost front row seats for the Asolo Theatre’s action-packed performance of Ken Ludwig’s The Three Musketeers. The early 17th century was the era of duels and only the slightest of slights could result in being called out. Thus, there’s plenty of slashing and smashing of swords, leaping, and jumping about, and even …
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