Alzheimer’s disease, that dreaded affliction that is mostly associated with the elderly, has been dramatized in any number of scripts over the last twenty or so years.  Among those that come to mind are “Iris” (a 2001 film in which Judi Dench played the stricken author, Iris Murdoch); “Away From Her” (the 2007 film starring […]

I’d be remiss if I didn’t offer a parting bow to “Downton Abbey,” which ended its six-season run last week with a two-hour episode that left all the main characters (all 20 of them) accounted for and, in almost every instance, happily sent off into the sunset of television paradise.  (The finale had run on […]

Jerry Montoya’s “Love and Baseball” is the kind of small play that B Street Theatre offers in the more intimate of its two stages, and that’s where it is being performed this month.  As a one-act, two-character play with limited action and not a lot of storyline, it works very well.  Simply stated, it’s a […]

Those of one party focus on policy; those of the other consist primarily of ad hominem attacks, lately emphasizing anatomical deficiencies.  This difference in the character and quality of the debates epitomizes the character and quality of the two political parties in this presidential election year.  And while the Republicans are far more entertaining, the […]