It is almost too late to catch the last performance of the Reduced Shakespeare Company‘s “All the Great Books (abridged)” at the San Jose Rep. The play has only two more performances as of this writing. If you have a love of or even a grudging respect for great literature and physical comedy then you ...

From my Summer reading comes Ruled Britannia by Harry Turtledove, one of my favorite authors. Turtledove tends to write alternate history books. The plot of this book revolves around the question “what if the Spanish Armada had conquered England during the reign of Elizabeth I”? The main character in this book is the playwright William ...