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SOURCE: CurtainUp at 7:28pm on March 14, 2025[SHARE]

Everything That Would Be Copy for Nora Ephron Nowadays by Elyse Sommer by Elyse Sommer

Everything That Would Be Copy for Nora Ephron Nowadays by Elyse Sommer Nora Ephron and her three sisters were raised by parents who were successful screenwriters. All  became writers, but…

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 9:48am on October 24, 2024[SHARE]

Tracking the Changes of My Life Via a Survey of Constantly Changing Communicating Tools by Elyse Sommer

Tracking the Changes of My Life Via a Survey of Constantly Changing Communicating Tools By Elyse Sommer My first writing tool was a fountain pen and the "platform" on which my scribblings la…

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 3:18pm on August 23, 2024[SHARE]

Notes next blogspot by Elyse Sommer

  MUSIC  LESS  MELODIC--   PLAYS  SHORTER-- SOLO  GAIND  PRESTIGE--  MY  WEBSITE  REW  AND  ADDED  REVIEWS  FROK  ALL  OVER--  nd Å

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 2:34pm on August 5, 2024[SHARE]

Netflix Has Created a New Golden Age for Mainstream Romance Series With Virgin River by Elyse Sommer

. Netflix Has a New Golden Age for Mainstream Romance Series With Virgin River  by Elyse Sommer The streaming platform's move into the world of romance-sourced novels as series has beenÂ…

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 1:28pm on July 13, 2024[SHARE]

Gallimaufry -- a Hodge Podge of Thoughts Prompted by Local, Global & Cultural Events by Elyse Sommer

Gallimaufry -- a Hodge Podge of Thoughts Prompted by Local, Global & Cultural Events By Elyse  Sommer Friends with whom I maintain a steady email conversation often receive one from m…

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 8:08am on May 18, 2024[SHARE]

With Tell Me Everything, Elizabeth Strout Revisits the Remarkable Literary World She Created in Her Previous Nine Novels by Elyse Sommer

With Tell Me Everything, Elizabeth Strout Revisits the Remarkable Literary World She Created in Her Previous Nine Novels By Elyse Sommer To start with a hurrah: This latest in Strout's ficti…

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 1:50pm on April 30, 2024[SHARE]

The Many Lives of the Great Gatsby by Elyse Sommer

.The Many Lives of the Great Gatsby by Elyse SommerThe theater has come back to life with almost a dozen new productions recently opening over the course of less than two weeks and with more…

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 2:22pm on March 21, 2024[SHARE]

An Interesting but Worriesome Time to be Retired by Elyse Sommer by Elyse Sommer

   An Interesting but Worriesome Time to be Retired  by Elyse Sommer Retiring from a super-busy career you love is not easy.   Fortunately, everything I and my many good frien…

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 1:42pm on January 17, 2024[SHARE]

Thornton Wilder's Our Town Give's Ann Patchett's Tom Lake A Wonderful Theater-centric Flavor by Elyse Sommer

Thornton Wilder's Our Town Gives Ann Patchett's Tom Lake a Wonderful Theater-centric  Flavor  by Elyse Sommer Outstanding new cultural offerings tend to be outnumbered by those that…

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 1:08pm on August 30, 2023[SHARE]

Is the Theater Back to its Pre-pandemic Pleasures? By Elyse Sommer by Elyse Sommer

 Is the Theater Back to its Pre-pandemic Pleasures? By Elyse Sommer There are indeed signals for optimism that the worst of the pandemic is over, at least in the theater.    Long sh…

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 5:29pm on June 23, 2023[SHARE]

Judy Blume's Ever-Expanding Audience & Relevance by Elyse Sommer

Judy Blume's Ever-Expanding Audience & Relevanceby Elyse SommerI'm too old to have been part of author Judy Blume's ever-expanding fan base of girls from early grades to high school. Con…

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:20am on May 16, 2023[SHARE]

Types Of Shows That Keep Theater Alive by Elyse Sommer

  Types of Shows That Keep Theater Alive    --  By Elyse Sommer Putting on a play or musical on Broadway, as well as elsewhere, has always been a high-risk cultural  enterp…

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:55am on May 4, 2023[SHARE]

PBS and Broadway Reboot Golden Oldies by Elyse Sommer

PBS Makes Reboot of TV Golden Oldie, All Creatures Great And Small, into a  Feel-Good Screening Hit with Characters You Like and Admire  --  By Elyse Sommer We continue to be barrag…

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 4:00pm on March 20, 2023[SHARE]

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. PBS  makesk reboot  of TV Golden Oldie, All Creatures Great and Small ,  Into  a  Feel Good  Screening  Hit. . .On Broadway,  Golden  Oldiies Feature  Far …

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 12:04pm on March 12, 2023[SHARE]

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PBS  makesk reboot  of TV Golden Oldie, All Creatures Great and Small ,  Into  a  Feel Good  Screening  Hit. . .On Broadway,  Golden  Oldiies Feature  Far  L…

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 3:17pm on March 11, 2023[SHARE]

Blogspot Update December 2022 by Elyse Sommer. by Elyse Sommer

My Favorite Recent Quote Comes From Author of Leopoldstadt"In a scene that takes place in 1955, the young Englishman says to the Jewish man, 'It can't happen again.' When the play was bei…

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 2:41pm on December 15, 2022[SHARE]

Theater Will Continue To Share the Spotlight With Onscreen & Other Entertainment Formats By Elyse Sommer by Elyse Sommer

 Our lives will never again replicate the less chaotic Pre-COVID era. This New Normal will encompass many shifts in our recreational as well as work lives. For writers and actors, t…

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 9:35am on October 26, 2022[SHARE]

blogspot blogupdate October 7, 2022 by Elyse Sommer

 While theaters have reopened, the news on that front has been more about once considered here-to-stay shows closing. That even includes Phantom of the Opera, which in the course of…

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 11:12am on October 7, 2022[SHARE]

It's a Wonderful Life -- Without Rose-Colored Glasses by Elyse Sommer

   It's a Wonderful Life sure beats the drum loudly for kindness and doing the right thing. In fact, in these stressful times we may not want to wait until Christmas to bask in Dire…

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Blogspot Blog Update: September 12, 2022 by Elyse Sommer

Shakespeare Gets The Last Word In King Charles' Farewell To His Mama, The QueenIn his first speech as Queen Elizabeth II's successor, her son gave Shakespeare the final words for his  mot…

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 6:42pm on September 12, 2022[SHARE]

Sylvie's Love-- A Slice of Hollywood's Old Fashioned Romances With a New-Fangled Twist by Elyse Sommer

By Elyse Sommer Since I saw and reviewed Tessa Thompson in Rebecca Wilson's terrific film adaptation of Nella Larson's 1939 novel Passing (http://www.curtainup.com/p…

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 6:36pm on August 11, 2022[SHARE]

Elyse's Blogspot Blog- July 2022 by Elyse Sommer

     My Favorite Quote   Reaching my own personal centennial is cause for a bit of reflection on my first century " and on what the next century will bring for the people …

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 11:39am on July 28, 2022[SHARE]

Screened Entertainment about Famous People Is Having Its Bigger-Than-Ever Moments . , , Now Often Available to Watch In Several Fo by Elyse Sommer

 Screened Entertainment About Famous People Is Having Its Bigger-Than-Ever Moments  . . . Now Often Available To Watch In Several Formats & At Various Outlets Simultaneously  Tr…

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 2:55pm on July 22, 2022[SHARE]

A Special Offer from the Invaluable Mint Theater by Elyse Sommer

  www.curtainup.com Curtainup Founder & Editor Elyse Sommer's Epilogue -- I've passed the torch for reviewing and editing new the…

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 5:37am on July 9, 2022[SHARE]