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Category Archives: Rants
RE-INTRODUCTIONS AND WELCOME
I’M BACK! Enough is enough! Sitting around the … Continue reading
THE KING AND I: An Addendum both Personal and Historical
Readers looking for specific responses to the recent Lincoln Center production of The King and I would do well to read my August 29 posting below. But I guess I’m not through with this play yet. And clearly, I’m not … Continue reading
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Tagged John Maung, King Mongkut, Marni Nixon, Octavio Maloles, Saïd Dehlavi
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The 2016 Tony Awards: An Affair to Remember
Customarily, I’m not one to be caught up in the competitive suspense generated by the Tony Awards, or for that matter in the many competitions between artists that excite most of us. How can you choose between a great orange … Continue reading
CATF: Chisa Hutchinson’s DEAD AND BREATHING
I had been especially eager to see Dead and Breathing, mostly because it purportedly tackled the important theme of “right to die,” and it sounded like a light-hearted approach to a controversial subject. Light-hearted it certainly was, if not all that … Continue reading
CATF: Christina Anderson’s THE ASHES UNDER GAIT CITY
Christina Anderson was inspired to write her play based on the circumstances of black people in Seattle in the 1800’s, then as segregated an American city as you could find. Free blacks were actually prohibited from entering the state of Oregon … Continue reading
Arena Stage’s CAMP DAVID
Compromise! That’s a big word these days. President Obama came into office on the promise of compromise, which I always thought was a good word, until the opposing party transformed it into something akin to appeasement, as “nefariously practiced by … Continue reading
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Tagged ANWAR SADAT, Arena Stage, CAMP DAVID, CRIMEA, HALLIE FOOTE, HORTON FOOTE, JIMMY CARTER, JOHN KERRY, KHALED NABAWY, LAWRENCE WRIGHT, MENACHEM BEGIN, Molly Smith, NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN, PEACE ACCORDS, RICHARD THOMAS, RON RIFKIN, ROSALYNN CARTER, SHUTTLE DIPLOMACY, UKRAINE, Walt Spangler
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MARK TWAIN TONIGHT
The first time I ever saw Hal Holbrook do his impersonation of Mark Twain, I think I was still in college. He first conceived of the idea and performed it in 1954, when he was 29. He’s now been … Continue reading
LONDON 1: Welcome Back
Many years ago, Joan and I were living in northern Vermont, and I was in the early stages of my theatre binge trips to New York. Friends and early pre-internet research persuaded me there might actually be a cheaper way … Continue reading
On “DETROIT”
Detroit, not the play but the city, has been much on my mind of late. My Dad first came there in 1910 to go to work, either for Oldsmobile or Studebaker, as a racecar driver and salesman. Born in St. … Continue reading
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On METAMORPHOSES Revisited
Last week, as we approached the tenth anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq War, my wife and I drove up to Washington to a noon performance of Metamorphoses, Mary Zimmerman’s watery interpretation of Ovid’s Greek and Roman myths. Way … Continue reading
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Tagged 9/11, Arena Stage, Gods, Iraq, Mary Zimmerman, New York, World Trade Center
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VIEW IN THE DARK 