Tag: Portland Stage
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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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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…