by Lynne Weiss | Dec 8, 2021 | What I'm Seeing and Hearing
The Half-Life of Marie Curie at Central Square Theater This performance was so gripping and enlightening that it wasn’t until the play was brought to an abrupt halt that I had any inkling that one of the two women on the stage was in the midst of a medical...
by Lynne Weiss | Nov 11, 2021 | What I'm Seeing and Hearing
Hadestown: It’s a Sad Song, But We Sing It Anyway As the opening number of the musical Hadestown began during the Broadway in Boston production, I felt a surge of patriotism. What a great thing our American musical tradition is, that we can blend blues and...
by Lynne Weiss | Oct 30, 2021 | What I'm Seeing and Hearing
Stacey Abrams! When I think of her name, I hear it to the tune of the opening of “Oklahoma!” What a woman she is, and I had the chance to hear and see her live, along with about 1500 other people here in my hometown, in a conversation with local public...
by Lynne Weiss | Sep 3, 2021 | What I'm Seeing and Hearing
Hurricane Diane I loved this fast-moving and delightful comedy, performed entirely by women/gender-neutral actors. The actors, especially Rami Magron, who played Diane/Dionysus, commanded my attention from the moment she stepped onto the stage. She was truly a force...
by Lynne Weiss | Aug 19, 2021 | What I'm Seeing and Hearing
The Yiddish Book Center A trip to Amherst, Mass., allowed us to visit the Yiddish Book Center this afternoon. I remember seeing signs for this place when I lived in Amherst in the early 1980s. My impression was that it was then nothing more than an old barn filled...
by Lynne Weiss | Jan 11, 2020 | What I'm Seeing and Hearing
Moby Dick in under 3 1/2 hours! An astonishing, delightful, and moving adaptation of Moby Dick kept me fascinated for nearly three and a half hours at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, MA the other night. The set and props range from the elegant to the...
