Ever notice the Shakespearean acclimatization effect? How the Mind’s Ear can so quickly “go native” in Elizabethan/Jacobean English? At the opening curtain of a Shakespeare revival, typically, you feel the actors might as well...
The closest approximation of a homegrown, made in U.S.A. uhr-myth has to be The Wizard of Oz. The L. Frank Baum children’s classic – the saga of a Kansas pre-teen, tornado-tossed into a surreal...
Upfront disclosure: Mei-lang and I had never heard of the Go-Go’s until we settled into seats G19 and G21 of Ashland’s outdoor Allen Elizabethan Theater. We opened our Playbills to learn that the new...
…That’s the new genre that Pulitzer-winning playwright Qiara Alegría Hudes has perfected in “The Happiest Song Plays Last,” the final installment of her trilogy about her Iraq vet cousin Elliot and his ongoing internet-enabled...