Category Theatre
In which Jean Valjean doesn’t sing, but Rory does.
I’m in New York right now, sitting in my hotel suite on the 20th floor above Times Square. Tomorrow I’ll be interviewing kids from Columbia Law School who want to come to work at the firm. The interviews start early, so I came up in advance. And, as I always try to do, I came sufficiently in […]
Spring Gala
What’s the use of having a reputation for excellent French and a passion for the performing arts? Well, for starters, it increases the odds that your name will come up when the folks planning a black-tie gala look at the guest list and think, “If only we knew someone who was fluent in French and a fan of the Kennedy Center!” […]
Hard at work (it’s a good thing no one can see what I’m actually typing)
By some magical shift in the stars, all of the projects I’m working on have managed to go into a lull at the same time. The lull will end tomorrow, and I’m sure the rest of the week will be perfectly busy, but for now it’s a sunny Tuesday afternoon, I’m at work, and I’m BORED. So […]
Phone-less, again.
I am having the worst luck with iPhones. I’ve hade one for less than a year, and already I’ve lost two. The first time it fell out of my bag in a Crate & Barrel while I was shopping for shower curtains. This time it fell off my seat during a standing ovation at the Kennedy […]
Storytelling – Greek mythology and Oscar shorts
Stories. I love ’em. They get you out of your head, into someone else’s. They take you places. They make you feel things and understand things that you might never otherwise feel or understand because the scope of your first-hand experience is too narrow. As a teenager who read way too many books (for example, in […]
Short and sweet
I’m kind of famous amongst my extended family for going to crazy-long performances. And it’s true that I’m no stranger to six-hour operas and four-hour plays. But not everything I see is that long, and I certainly don’t think that everything should be that long. Indeed, there’s something sweet and clean and refreshing about being short […]
New York – Trojans and a hot tin roof
I. How do you survive a five-and-a-half hour opera? By eating a hearty breakfast immediately beforehand . . . Quiche lorraine, Greek yogurt with rawnola (a.k.a. birdseed)with a side of Victor Hugo and by sneaking a handful of granola bars into the opera house to be eaten during the third intermission. It was odd to […]
New York – No man is an archipelago!
The opera tomorrow starts at Noon and runs for five-and-a-half hours, which means that I have to spend both Friday night and Saturday night in New York: There just aren’t any trains that would allow me to come up in the morning before the show or to leave and go home after the show. What’s […]
Denver – White Christmas
It’s rare that the weather cooperates and does exactly what it should at the moment it should be done. But last night that happened! After a relaxed and uneventful Christmas Eve Day, Amanda and I went downtown for dinner at a new restaurant called Le Grand Bistro & Oyster Bar. We ordered oysters and soup […]
Oh the irony
How many times have I sat in Washington, DC, looking at the New York theatre offerings and wishing I were there so that I could see a play? Lots. And now here I am sitting in New York, wishing I was in DC so I could see Theatre de l’Atelier’s production of Les Liaisons Dangeureuses. Of all […]
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 