"Twelfth Night" Provides a Magical Evening of Shakespeare in Central Park.

“If music be the food of love, play on” commands the lovelorn Count Orsino as “Twelfth Night” opens – and it is indeed music that sustained a wonderfully joyous performance throughout a rare, clear night at the Delacorte Theater in...

Shakespeare In The Park at the Delacorte Theater

Shakespeare In The Park kicks of this week at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park.  The first offering will be “Twelfth Night”, one of the Bard’s most beloved comedies.   This year’s production will feature  Charles Borland, Andrew Crowe,...

Raccoon Throwdown

I was struck tonight by one of my Quest For Fire – man against the elements urges (delusions) and bundled myself into nine or ten layers of clothing for a dork walk around the Reservoir. (For the uninitiated dork walking is an alternative form of exercise made...

Park in the Dark

One of my favorite things to do in Manhattan, and I know I risk seeming a complete geek by relating this, is to run around the Central Park Reservoir at sunset in the wintertime, the geeky part being I love listening to Garrison Keillor on NPR while I do it (although...