This year's two week Festival (46th) was a far cry from those rustic events on the vast infield of the Fair Grounds Race Course, between Esplanade and Gentilly, when New Orleans was part of our educational (Tulane and Loyola University) and cultural foundation in the 1970's.
When the Esplanade staged Stan Lai's "Total Women" in 2005 as part of its annual Huayi festival, which celebrates Chinese arts, it was hard-pressed to fill its 2,000-seat 2,000-seatr theaterhts, Mr. Nathan said.
Tom Stoppard said, apropos of his play "Arcadia," that there were some works that made a playwright feel not so much proud as lucky, and I imagine that Mr. Taylor could never have felt luckier than in 1975 when he made "Esplanade".
When Philip Thomas visits the esplanade at Carl Schurz Park in Manhattan, memories of his late wife, Abby, rush in.
Minutes after the pope left, the tension erupted, when Muslim youths poured into the esplanade.
Photo: A flock of pigeons appeared only slighly disturbed yesterday when they were encountered on the esplanade along the East River on the Upper East Side of Manhatan.
When I visited the town, the esplanade was still festooned with forlorn pink ribbons, put there by locals desperately hoping the five-year-old would be found.
Bognor, a somewhat faded south coast resort with a newly rediscovered sense of ambition, is these days best known for its Butlins, its esplanade and its pier, and the fact that when George V, sent here to convalesce, was petitioned to bestow the royal suffix on the town, his initial response was: "Oh, bugger Bognor".
Although it's not quite a resort, the town's maritime connections with the continent mean a steady drip of visitors along its L-shaped Ha'penny Pier (so called because of the halfpenny toll charged when it opened in 1853), and esplanade, where pensioners sit three to a bench.
