Category Theatre
Shakespeare, deep in the heart of Virginia
One of the problems with trying to see all of Shakespeare’s plays performed is that some of them are, well, kind of weird and not all that good (and may not have been written by him in the first place) — and as a result they are rarely performed. Take Timon of Athens, for example. Shakespeare’s authorship is […]
Chicago – The Little Prince
Chicago’s Lookingglass Theatre is one of our favorite theatres and has been the excuse for weekend trips to Chicago more than once. When Amanda heard last fall that they were staging a new adaptation of Antoine de Saint Exupery’s book The Little Prince, we bought tickets and, well, that’s how we all ended up here this weekend in […]
Chicago – Galoshes and Michelin stars at Everest
Amanda and I returned from brunch and kronuts just in time to dress for . . . (can you guess it?) . . . dinner! We’ve been hooked on the Michelin Guide for years now and have been looking for an opportunity to bring Will and Susan (Amanda’s parents) into our decadent ways. Since Chicago […]
Stage moms and tow trucks
Tonight I managed to duck out of the office early enough to see Signature Theatre’s current production Gypsy with my friend Melanie. I’d never seen the show before and this production has gotten great reviews (and accordingly is sold out most nights), so I was excited when I managed to snag the tickets. It’s essentially the […]
Shakespeare in New York
I have been in New York this week. A client called me up on Monday for a round of meetings and hasn’t let me go since. Not that much is actually happening to require my presence (the negotiations have been stalled since Monday afternoon); mostly I think the client just wants to know it has me ready at hand, just in case. The […]
King John (or 18 down, 19 to go!)
King John? Check. One more history play off the list. About a year ago a friend of mine, Melanie, decided that she wants to see all of Shakespeare’s plays performed before she turns forty. She knows I can keep up when it comes to theatre (she and I did theatre together while we were in law […]
Birthday weekend, part 3 – Falling with Alice
Birthdays aside, the main reason for Amanda’s and my rendez-vous in New York was to see Then She Fell. It’s an immersive theatre experience roughly in the same genre as Sleep No More (which I saw and wrote about last year), only here the story was Alice In Wonderland, we didn’t wear masks, and there […]
The bunny and the steamroller
I’m back! At least for a minute. (Now I’m going to ramble for a minute, so if you want to jump to the good stuff — including cannibalism — feel free to scroll down.) Things have been relentless, to say the least. Remember back in August when I thought it would be a good idea to sign up […]
Theatre season begins!
I can’t believe it’s already that time of year again: the air is cooler, the days noticeably shorter, my weekend evenings suddenly full of theatre dates. While I don’t love everything about fall (why can’t it just be warm all the time?), that last bit makes up for a lot. This theatre season got off to a […]
Pippin, Vanya et al., and another Michelin star
As much as I love the Met Museum, what I really love in New York are the performing arts and the food. So after spending this morning at the Met, I walked back down to Midtown and spent the rest of the day eating and seeing two wonderful shows. The first show I saw was […]
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 