Thursday, October 24, 2024
Everything That Would Be Copy for Nora Ephron Nowadays
by Elyse Sommer
Nora Ephron and her three sisters were raised by parents who were successful screenwriters. All became writers, but i…
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Tracking the Changes of My Life Via a Survey of Constantly Changing Communicating Tools
By Elyse Sommer
My first writing tool was a fountain pen and the "platform" on which my scribblings la…
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Netflix Has a New Golden Age for Mainstream Romance Series With Virgin River
by Elyse Sommer
The streaming platform's move into the world of romance-sourced novels as series has been a…
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Gallimaufry -- a Hodge Podge of Thoughts Prompted by Local, Global & Cultural Events
By Elyse Sommer
Friends with whom I maintain a steady email conversation often receive one from me …
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With Tell Me Everything, Elizabeth Strout Revisits the Remarkable Literary World She Created in Her Previous Nine Novels
By Elyse Sommer
To start with a hurrah: This latest in Strout's ficti…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 01:50PMThursday, March 21, 2024
.The Many Lives of the Great Gatsby by Elyse SommerThe theater has come back to life with almost a dozen new productions recently opening over the course of less than two weeks and with more…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 02:22PMWednesday, January 17, 2024
An Interesting but Worriesome Time to be Retired
by Elyse Sommer
Retiring from a super-busy career you love is not easy.
Fortunately, everything I and my many good friends and col…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 01:42PMWednesday, August 30, 2023
Thornton Wilder's Our Town Gives Ann Patchett's Tom Lake a Wonderful Theater-centric Flavor
by Elyse Sommer
Outstanding new cultural offerings tend to be outnumbered by those that are h…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 01:08PMFriday, June 23, 2023
Is the Theater Back to its Pre-pandemic Pleasures?
By Elyse Sommer
There are indeed signals for optimism that the worst of the pandemic is over, at least in the theater. Long shuttere…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:29PMTuesday, 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…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:20AMThursday, May 4, 2023
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 …
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 04:00PMThursday, December 15, 2022
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…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 02:41PMWednesday, October 26, 2022
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…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:35AMFriday, October 7, 2022
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…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 11:12AMThursday, September 15, 2022
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…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 01:42PMMonday, September 12, 2022
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…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:42PMThursday, August 11, 2022
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…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:36PMThursday, July 28, 2022
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…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 11:39AMFriday, July 22, 2022
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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NEW April 13, 2022- To Stage or Screen a Story
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SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:38AMTo Stage or Screen a Story discusses 'Mass" which began as a play and is now a film at Hulu and the film and stage version of the Alan Turing story
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The Oscars Nod to New Acceptance of Screening Platforms and Greater Casting and Storytelling Diversity
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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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