Tuesday, May 16, 2023
Judy Blume's Ever-Expanding Audience & Relevanceby Elyse SommerI'm too old to have been part of author Judy Blume's ever-expanding fan base of girls from early grades to high school. Con…
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Types of Shows That Keep Theater Alive
-- By Elyse Sommer
Putting on a play or musical on Broadway, as well as elsewhere, has always been a high-risk cultural enterprise. And ye…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:55AMMonday, March 20, 2023
PBS Makes Reboot of TV Golden Oldie, All Creatures Great And Small, into a Feel-Good Screening Hit with Characters You Like and Admire
-- By Elyse Sommer
We continue to be barraged by …
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My Favorite Recent Quote Comes From Author of Leopoldstadt"In a scene that takes place in 1955, the young Englishman says to the Jewish man, 'It can’t happen again.’ When the play was b…
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Our lives will never again replicate the less chaotic Pre-COVID era. This New Normal will encompass many shifts in our recreational as well as work lives. For writers and actors, the sto…
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While theaters have reopened, the news on that front has been more about once considered here-to-stay shows closing. That even includes Phantom of the Opera, which in the course of a rem…
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It's a Wonderful Life sure beats the drum loudly for kindness and doing the right thing. In fact, in these stressful times we may not want to wait until Christmas to bask in Director F…
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Shakespeare Gets The Last Word In King Charles' Farewell To His Mama, The QueenIn his first speech as Queen Elizabeth II's successor, her son gave Shakespeare the final words for his mothe…
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By Elyse Sommer
Since I saw and reviewed Tessa Thompson in Rebecca Wilson's
terrific film adaptation of Nella Larson's 1939 novel Passing (http://www.curtainup.com/pas…
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My Favorite Quote
Reaching
my own personal centennial is cause for a bit of reflection on my first
century — and on what the next century will bring for the people and
cou…
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Screened Entertainment About Famous People Is Having Its Bigger-Than-Ever Moments . . . Now Often Available To Watch In Several Formats & At Various Outlets Simultaneously Traditio…
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April 27th Blog Update— How I Learned to Drive and Take Me Out prove their durability in new Broadway production, American Buffalo less so . . . wit…
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April 27th Blog Update— How
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The Oscars Nod to New Acceptance of Screening Platforms and Greater Casting and Storytelling Diversity
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The Oscars Nod to New Acceptance of Screening Platforms and Greater Casti
ng and Storytelling Diversity
The most susp
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-Our Post Pandemic Life Must Embrace All the Ways We Experience Culture--covers The Music Man, Spielberg's West Side Story, Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend series
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That Day We Sang is my screen gem of the week, t The Plot and An Elder Laldy is up to no Good my escapist page turners
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Rachel to the Resce. . .The Lincoln Highway. . .Homeland Elegies
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\December 23rd update-- about Kimberly Akimbo, Mrs. Doubtfire, Flying over Sunset, Only Murders in this Building. . .
Newest: December 23, 2021
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Stephen Sondheim, A Life Well Well Lived
Unlike the many theater notables who knew him personally,
I never knew St…
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