Destination: Michigan
Cultural Event: Outdoor Theatre with Lakeside Shakespeare
A warm summer evening, hawks gliding by above the trees, lawn chairs and blankets, wine and munchies, good friends, music, and Much Ado. It is the best of outdoor summer theatre, and it happens every year in Frankfort, Michigan, a small artsy town located on the Sunset Coast of Lake Michigan. Continue reading Lakeside Shakespeare for Culture Travel Tuesday
Destination: England, and in the U.S., Cambridge MA and the Southwest, including Shakespeare, New Mexico.
Book: Interred With Their Bones (2007) by Jennifer Lee Carrell
I have watched Tucsonan Jennifer Lee Carrell‘s writing career as she progressed from a Smithsonian internship to local theater reporting in Tucson, to a best selling book on the Plague and then created two mystery novels featuring a Shakespeare scholar. But for a bunch of feeble reasons, I had not yet read her Shakespeare mysteries. When I ran into Jennifer at the Tucson Festival of Books this year, I realized I really needed to get the books–now out in paperback. Continue reading Shakespeare to Die For
