Our current book (play) of the month is Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and as we work our way to summer, just think of all the whimsical, magical nights you can indulge in. Get yourself to the weekend with this fun and dramatic fairy-inspired playlist. Have a great summer, Germies! [8tracks url=”https://8tracks.com/germmagazine/midweek-hype-midsummer-nights” width=”300″ height=”300″]
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How often are there standing ovations in the middle of a Broadway musical? Something Rotten is a show that celebrates theatre along with taking a few jabs at William Shakespeare and the genre of musical theatre itself. Its humor is irreverent, along the lines of Spamalot and Book of Mormon. The audience is at the […]
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The popular New Zealand webseries Nothing Much to Do may have ended in 2014, but the passion of its fans fueled a wildly successful Kickstarter to produce Lovely Little Losers, a sequel series to the original Much Ado About Nothing webseries adaptation. Lovely Little Losers, which premieres on July 16th, will be an adaptation of Shakespeare’s comedy Love’s Labours Lost, featuring […]
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Welcome to February — be lovely and be powerful!
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How tiring it was for the women, his constant talking at them, the axioms, the unasked for advice. Even the queen was lectured to, told what to do, eavesdropped on. Although she could never admit it, a part of her must have been relieved when her son stabbed him. Finally, silence, or there would be […]
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A recent YouTube fad has been repurposing classic literature into modern day vlogs with the characters leading the viewer through the well-known story (in my opinion, a huge leap forward from inane, often dangerous challenges). While I could easily give you a list of web series that are certainly worth a watch (The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, The […]
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She doesn’t know why he looks familiar until, as he does a soliloquy, she realizes he had tried to sell her a used Taurus last fall at Modern Ford. She’d been interested, but he’d pushed too hard, like Tim at prom. She bought a Jeep instead. He’d seemed surprised when she walked off the lot, […]
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After he again professes his love and swears he will always protect her, she tells him about the time she played with her father and she had insisted he had to let her win because she was a kid. His face had clouded, and he […]
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Her nightstand has piles of notebooks that she has filled with lists: of presents she might send him while he’s at Wittenberg, of who would be invited to the wedding if it was big or if it was small, of menus, of honeymoon destinations, of baby names, of flowers she might like in the garden, […]
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