Reading and Roaming
This week’s blog brings together several compelling works. One is a musical related to 9/11 while the other two are books. One book is a wonderful novel about the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary, while the other is a cancer memoir, painful yet ultimately redeeming. POWERFUL VIEWING: Remembering 9/11 Come from Away (Apple TV+) I …
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CURRENT THEATER This past week we enjoyed two plays at our own Asolo Repertory Theatre. The Lifespan of a Fact is a witty and fast paced 80 minutes of discussion, argument, and negotiation between a young magazine fact checker, a noted author, and the magazine editor. It’s based on real events. Since our son was a fact checker at The …
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ON STAGE The Sound of Music You’ve probably seen at least one stage production of The Sound of Music or the movie starring Julie Andrews, but did you pay attention to the year and the context? I don’t think I did until we saw the superb performance at the Asolo Theater. This is a darker, more nuanced play and …
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STAGE: OKLAHOMA Through the years, I’ve seen several productions of the American musical, Oklahoma. This new production directed by Daniel Fish, is a dark one. The staging is amazing—open and creative. It’s theater in the round, really more of a horseshoe, with theatergoers seated on one side of some of the tables used by the actors. At intermission, the red …
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