Ashland, Oregon, has its annual Shakespeare festival that features an occasional play by the “Bard of Avon,” but it also mixes other period pieces and more than a few modern works in its repertoire.  The Davis Shakespeare Festival, now in its ninth year, is a bit more modest in its undertakings, but this year’s […]

               What are parents to their children?  What are children to their parents?  How does each satisfy needs the other has?  When do those needs risk overwhelming the relationship?                Those perplexing questions are raised in “Gypsy,” the musical drawn from the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee, the striptease artist who was the Queen of […]

               If, like me, you consider baseball to be the best sport and have, like me, spent over 60 years studying it as well, the annual All-Star Game has special appeal.  And so, when my son, who lives in the nation’s capital, suggested that he and I attend the game this month, I planned a […]

The sudden announced retirement from the Supreme Court by Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy late last month created quite a stir among watchers of the Court.  It also became the lead story on cable news networks and throughout the blogosphere and twitter world as President Trump went prime time to announce his nominee to replace Kennedy.  […]