Reading and Roaming
COMEDY MID MARITAL DISCORD Grand Horizons The Asolo Theatre seldom fails to present wonderfully designed sets and compelling productions. Grand Horizons, a comedy from Broadway, showcases Nancy and Bill, a long-married couple. They have just moved to a retirement community when Nancy announces she wants a divorce. Initially, her statement gets almost no response from her husband. But when she …
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NEW BEGINNINGS As the saying goes, you can’t go home again. But you can go visit. We spent a wonderful day in Bethlehem at Lehigh University celebrating the inauguration of Lehigh’s 15th president, Joe Helble. The campus looked lovely, and the ceremony had the requisite pomp prompting misty eyes. The Chief Penguin and I were pleased to see and chat …
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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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