YOUR GREAT ADVENTURE AWAITS If you rearrange the letters of “progeria,” you can get “opera rig,” or “rigor ape,” or “prior age.” That last one is befitting. Progeria is an incredibly rare syndrome that causes people to age faster than normal. Though the turmoil of high school, a troubled home, and growing up in New […]
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KANSAS CITY, BIRD IN KANSAS CITY HERE IT COMES Verve Records is releasing Bird in Kansas City globally on October 25, 2024 on vinyl, CD, and digitally. It’s an album featuring a new set of rare recordings dating from between 1941-1951. Much of this collection has never been heard before and some recordings have never even […]
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A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money. — W. C. Fields I highly recommend the World Premiere of Robbin, From the Hood, which opened last Friday at Road Theatre. It is playwright Marlow Wyatt’s creative protest to American capitalism. It’s entertaining and timely with surprising plot twists. In Wyatt’s re-imagined tale, corporate […]
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AN EXTREMELY HEAVY PORTRAYAL OF ABUSE IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH It’s no secret that the Catholic Church has a sordid history of covering up sexual abuse, and many have made art on this topic to keep it in the spotlight (pun intended, as the 2015 film Spotlight is an excellent example). This is the first […]
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In Symphony of Rats, a President of the United States has strange encounters of the phantasmagorical kind. Surrounded by his presidential aides, he plunges into a series of incidents where he meets otherworldly beings, among them a giant rat with a special message. October 18-20 & 22-23, 2024, the legendary Wooster Group transforms REDCAT in downtown L.A. into a sort of mad laboratory for their latest deliriously trippy production Symphony of Rats, directed by Elizabeth LeCompte, […]
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S-T-U-P-E-N-D-O-U-S AND S-I-D-E-S-P-L-I-T-T-I-N-G The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is a delightful and unconventional musical comedy that debuted in 2005. With music and lyrics by William Finn and a book by Rachel Sheinkin, the show is set at a fictional spelling bee in Putnam Valley Middle School. It follows an eclectic group of middle […]
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It is the Fourth of July sometime in the future, and history is about to be made. We are about to witness the annual Hot Dog Eating Contest. The five women invited to this stage have set out to conquer nature, destroy their own limits, and shatter our perception of what the human body is […]
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PUTIN ON THE FRITZ The most entertaining part of Manhattan Theater Club‘s Vladimir, which opened tonight at NY City Center, was the tirade the woman sitting behind me went into during intermission, pointing out to her companions the play’s numerous historical inaccuracies, double standards, instances of naiveté, ignorance and anti-Putin propaganda, as well as its […]
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TALLULAH’S BACK IN TOWN, DAHLING! “Don’t touch my purse! Touching a woman’s purse is like touching her vagina! Except, I can only put so much in my purse.” Not quite a lady-like quote for 1965, huh? Welcome to the world of screen star Tallulah Bankhead, a stage actress best known for her role in the […]
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AN UNHOLY WRECK There are bad movies, and then there’s Terrifier 3, a festering pile of cinematic waste so atrocious that it’s not only the worst of the year but one of the worst I’ve ever had the displeasure of sitting through. Damien Leone couldn’t make a shittier movie if he tried. Hell, he may […]
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