This is lively full-strength Shakespeare, a dizzying story of changing fortunes and changing sides, loyalty and betrayal, weakness and strength, war and more war, with only small and hesitant hopes for peace – and all made easy to follow and admire.
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Theater Review (NYC): ‘Temple of the Souls’ at the New York Musical Festival
The triumph of love in unifying nations and dispelling racism, discrimination, and hatred is the key theme of this incredible musical. How worthy, how wise, how current for our times.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘A Wall Apart’ at the New York Musical Festival
Walls that divide are walls that should be torn down.
Read More »Under Trump, Things Don’t Look Good for Prison Reform and Rehabilitation
Where Obama sought to reduce unnecessary incarceration for minor crimes, Trump signed three executive orders that 'Rolling Stone' called “consistent with his firm but demonstrably false view that crime is out of control.”
Read More »‘The X-Files: Cold Cases’ on Audible — An Interview with Executive Producer Dirk Maggs
Do you miss The X-Files? Audible has the answer The X-Files: Cold Cases, a full-cast audio dramatization starring David Duchovny (Fox Mulder), Gillian Anderson (Dr. Dana Scully) and the entire X-Files cast. The story is based on Joe Harris’s graphic novels and adapted by Dirk Maggs (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to …
Read More »Helping Kids Adjust to a New Home
Children are very adaptable, but they also don’t always like change, at least at first. And that means that one of the biggest struggles of moving to a new home, particularly if it’s in a new town, is helping the children adjust.
Read More »Theatre/Circus Review (Singapore): ‘Kooza’ from Cirque du Soleil
If you are looking for a family outing that's a fit for every age group, consider 'Kooza' – because sometimes we all need to go back to basics.
Read More »E-Bike Batteries That Will Last as Long as the Bike
A newly developed battery cell will revolutionize electric bicycles.
Read More »Theatre Review (Singapore): ‘Frago’ from Checkpoint Theatre and Lucas Ho
Ho's script shows that at the end of it all, grown men will still talk about sex and ladies as they did when they were horny teens.
Read More »Book Review: ‘The Trial of Prisoner 043’ by Terry Jastrow
In 'The Trial of Prisoner 043' author Terry Jastrow provocatively imagines George W. Bush being tried for war crimes because of the 2003 invasion of Iraq
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