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1. John Lithgow Pays Tribute to P.G. WODEHOUSE on Broadway

In a new one-man show, John Lithgow: Stories By Heart, the award-winning actor offers a comic meditation on the art and essence of storytelling. Invoking memories of his grandmother and father before him, Lithgow traces his own history as an actor and storyteller, a history spanning three generations, culminating in a performance of the P.G. Wodehouse story Uncle Fred Flits By, in which the actor performs a 40-minute monologue, portraying nine distinct characters with zany abandon. The piece will be performed on Sunday and Monday nights beginning on April 20 in the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre at Lincoln Center in New York and run for 14 performances only through June 2. Opening night is set for May 12. Uncle Fred Flits By features the first appearance of Pongo Twistleton and his Uncle Fred, who would go on to feature in four novels, including two appearances at Blandings Castle. You can find Uncle Fred Flits By in the collection of stories Young Men in Spats, part of the beloved Collector's Wodehouse series published by Overlook.

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2. Poetry Friday: Locked In

This is too cool. That's the Orion Nebula M42, and the photo was taken, at my request, by a PROMPT telescope in Chile, and emailed to me. The telescope (and five others) were funded by National Science Foundation Grants, and are primarily used to study gamma ray bursts, but students and teachers in North Carolina also use them to remotely observe the Southern Hemisphere night sky. Try it! Go here to request a picture of your own.

And now, for Poetry Friday:


Locked In


The doctors say he is alive
in there, all his thoughts
as hot as ever,

but his body is frozen,
disconnected from will.
They watch

his brainwaves and teach him
to mark letters with slight
shifts in his alpha

patterns
so he can spell his name
for the applauding staff.

I wonder then: when we die,
do we make the stars to speak
our fiery thoughts?

And do the living, those chill,
earth-locked living, who mark
our cries

on their astronomical
charts, at last applaud
our names?

----Sara Lewis Holmes (all rights reserved)

Poetry Friday is hosted by AmoXcalli today.

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