Tag: reviews

• Respite

  27 June 2025 Walking out of the Portsmouth Public Library last Tuesday was like walking into an oven, and since then, the 103o my GTI registered there in the parking lot has been confirmed as a record-breaker for the port town where proximity to the cold Atlantic waters generally means cooler-than-inland temperatures.  Not so this…

  georgeannmurphy

  June 27, 2025

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  Bill Kurtis, comedian, comedy, heat dome, Josh Gondelman, Karen Chee, Merrill Auditorium, Paula Poundstone, Peter Sagal, Portland ME, reviews, WAIT WAIT DON’T TELL ME

• 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…

  georgeannmurphy

  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