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 […]
Some people may recognize the name Todd Rundgren from the Bebe Buell/Liv Tyler/Steven Tyler gossip. Others may recognize “Hello It’s Me.” But Rundgren is a Renaissance man – not only has he written and performed hits with his bands (Nazz, Runt, Utopia), as a solo artist, and for others but he has written music for […]
I’ve been remiss in my posting so I have a backlog of May reviews. Passion was the theme of the day – first there was my passion for Hamilton and seeing and reading about Hamilton’s passions and then going to see one of my favorite bands and their passion for performing. After my Hamilton day, […]
Last Thursday was an absolutely beautiful spring day so it was a perfect day for walking around Manhattan and finding out more about Alexander Hamilton. I’d signed up for a curator tour of the Museum of the City of New York’s Picturing Prestige: New York Portraits, 1700-1860 exhibit. The tour was going to focus on […]
One of my favorite bands playing in one of my favorite clubs? I’m there. Several of us bought tickets a few months ago but by concert night rtb was in Peru on a fabulous vacation and mollyT was at her last night of her movie shoot so it was Mrs. Devereaux, her friend (who was […]
Years ago I wrote a fan email to Michael Musto telling him that his column “La Dolce Musto” was the first thing I went to when I got the Village Voice. He was nice enough to respond and even make a joke – I’d said that I’d seen him years before singing at the Mudd […]
