One of the things about getting old is that your short-term memory leaves you. So even though I had read rtb’s review of The Taming of the Shrew, which is the first production this year of the Public’s Free Shakespeare in the Park, by the time I saw the play a lot of what I […]
I decided that last Thursday would be a good day to see Shakespeare in the Park. But you have to get the ticket at noon and the show isn’t until 8pm so I had time to kill. So I thought it would also be a good day to visit some of the Alexander Hamilton sites […]
My second night with David Ford at Rockwood Music Hall. This night it was just rtb and me. The crowd was bigger. And joining David on stage was John Paul Ruggieri (sp?) on electric guitar on several of the songs. When David announced again that it had been ten years since his first US tour, […]
David Ford was performing for two nights at Rockwood Music Hall and one of my favorite artists at one of my favorite clubs is a very good thing. David was at Stage 3, which is the small club downstairs from the Orchard Street entrance. He was in town because he was recording a new album […]
Some years ago I decided to learn more about American playwrights. I read a biography of each, critical essays of their work, and then two of each of their plays. The playwrights I chose were Eugene O’Neill, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, and Edward Albee. O’Neill is considered the first American playwright; he brought realism to […]
