Kathleen Turner in The Year of Magical Thinking

“Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it. We anticipate (we know) that someone close to us could die, but we do not look beyond the few days or weeks that immediately follow such an imagined death.” Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking Let’s face it. No […]

As You Like It and Measure for Measure at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival

There’s always excitement in the air before one of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival plays take the stage.  Every director over the course of the festival’s 30 years, has made a little tweak here, a twist there, changed the time period, or inserted a trendy bit of dialogue to remind the audience that though it’s […]