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...
by Lynne Weiss | Sep 24, 2018 | What I'm Seeing and Hearing
So I FINALLY got to see Sorry to Bother You. I tried a while ago and it was sold out the night I went, but I wish I’d made it so I could go again. This is a brilliant film and if you haven’t seen it yet and still can, you should. It’s a remarkable...
by Lynne Weiss | Jan 14, 2017 | About Me, What I'm Seeing and Hearing
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted. Mark the music. The Merchant...
by Lynne Weiss | Mar 23, 2016 | What I'm Seeing and Hearing
Listening to episode 73 of Ben Franklin’s World, which featured historian Mark Noll discussing the Bible in early America, and he mentioned that literacy rates in New England and Scotland were the highest in the English-speaking world in the 17th & 18th...
