Only in Cambridge.

No, for real.

Tonight, I'm sitting down for the second half of the Cambridge Shakespeare Festival's production of The Winter's Tale, and suddenly I realize that Stephen Hawking is in the audience.

And, while I'm being epigrammatic, can I just say that this innovation strikes me as very strange indeed--and yet so unsurprising, really. They've even gone so far as to suggest situations in which you might use it.