Tag: Portland Stage

• April 2025

  3 May 2025 April may not be the cruelest month, but this one certainly has been crowded with incident.  My neighbor Leo turned 7 on the 5th, David Letterman 78 on the 12th; my dad George would have been 103 on the 22nd, also my parents’ 78th anniversary.  And some would reckon the U.S. turned…

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  May 3, 2025

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  Amici Music, Carey Cottage, Evgeny Kissin, Handel & Haydn Society, John Cariani, New Castle Congregational Church, Peter Sagal, Portland Stage, St. John’s Episcopal Church Portsmouth NH, The Shot Heard Round the World, Twelfth Night

• Hinge Moment

  31 May 2024 In his essay collection Languages of Truth, Salman Rushdie proposed that there are “hinge moments” in history when “everything is in flux . . . [and] the future is up for grabs.”  Rushdie wrote:  “When one lives at a hinge moment in history, as we do, as Shakespeare did when he wrote…

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  May 31, 2024

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  Angels in America, Apollinaire Theatre Company, Chelsea Theatre, Furman U, Portland Stage, reviews, Salman Rushdie, Shakespeare, Smoky Mountains, theatre, Touching the Void, Trump conviction, Western Carolina U