It was such a big year for me that I have no idea how on earth 2008 could stack up. I mean, I went to Africa, got Cally, met Steve, went to NYC to see the Stoppard "Utopia" trilogy, visited Philly and saw Independence Hall and King Tut's tomb artifacts, ate pizza and saw the Field Museum in Chicago, got to ride my horse down the stretch on MD ( Read more... )

Yes, it's been another of those weeks. Cally is slowly healing up, in that while her leg is still swollen, the suture line is healing up, and its no longer oozing anything. So I guess I'll keep wrapping it and take what I can get ( Read more... )

Preferably as a 12 hour marathon performance, because it was beyond amazing. If you're not an avid reader of the NYTimes Theatre section, perhaps you've not heard of it, or the very idea of a play about 19th century Russian exiled philosophical revolutionaries makes you want to run screaming. Oh, but you'd be missing out ( Read more... )

Freezing pipes and temperatures aside, I've had a nerdily fabulous week. Tuesday night, I trudged through the cold from work to the Folger (it's six blocks away, I'm not paying for a cab!) to see King Lear. Being from Podunkville, MD, I'd never before seen Shakespeare performed live (though I have seen Moliere, live and in French, if that ( Read more... )

I just bought tickets to the "The Coast of Utopia" marathon performance on April 21st. Third row tickets. For eight hours of theatre. At Lincoln Center. My geeky little heart is all atwitter. Granted, in addition to the quite possibly outrageous cost of the tickets, I'm also going to have to get my ass to NYC and stay two nights somewhere ( Read more... )

The other week, I mentioned I was reading a review of The Coast of Utopia, the new Tom Stoppard play, when there was the whole fire incident in my building. I keep hearing excellent things about it, so I did a little research. Turns out that Lincoln Center is doing a few special "marathon" performances of the triology later in the season, with ( Read more... )

Tonight, after a busy day of margaritas and salsa and shopping, I went to see "Waiting for Godot" at the Kennedy Center. It was in the smaller theater on the upper level, not the big famous opera house, which was sort of nice, because it gave me a chance to walk around on the terrace beforehand. The view up and down the Potomac from there is just ( Read more... )

I just got a newsletter from the Kennedy Center on what's coming up. They're doing Waiting for Godot the first week in October, and I'm off one of those days and could theoretically go. Tickets are only $40. Hmm. I'm tempted to get tickets, because that seems like a worthy splurge. It's supposed to be an excellent performance, as it's directed ( Read more... )

Just back from "Wicked" at the Kennedy Center with Jackie. What a wonderful, wonderful show--it certainly made me wish I'd seen it in NY the other year with the original cast when I had the chance. I'll admit that I don't remember a whole lot about the book, having read it a good 4 or more years ago, but from what I do remember, they took some ( Read more... )