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Jesse Herwitz

  • MELT STRESS AWAY: CRAFTING CUSTOM VISUAL ASMR

    Constant notifications, endless scrolling, and the demands of daily life can easily leave anyone feeling overstimulated. When your mind is racing after hours of studying or intense focus, finding a genuine moment of calm becomes essential. You might already be familiar with audio ASMR—those quiet, tingling sounds that help people fall asleep. However, visual ASMR…

  • STAYING FOCUSED AND CALM IN THE DIGITAL AGE: A PRACTICAL GUIDE

    Modern life in Turkey has become deeply connected to digital devices. According to the DataReportal Turkey Digital Overview, internet users in the country spend over 7 hours per day online on average. Smartphones, work platforms, messaging apps, and social media compete for attention throughout the day. As a result, maintaining focus has become one of…

  • Los Angeles Theater Review: HENRY IV, PART I (Antaeus Theater)

    ON HENRY  AND HISTORY Henry IV Part 1 opens with a lengthy speech delivered by King Henry IV himself: “So shaken are we, so wan with care:” begins James Sutorius, one of the double-cast actors to play the King. “No more the thirsty entrance of the soil / Shall daub her lips with her own children’s…

  • Los Angeles Theater Review: IONESCOPADE (Odyssey)

    OVER THE (ABSURD) MOON The show begins in darkness with a musical overture blazing through the air. Slowly the glow of a yellow moon appears in the background, a man’s face superimposed on it. We have a brief moment to meditate on it before a straggly-haired man, the writer, bound in a straight jacket, makes…

  • Los Angeles Theater Review: SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE: THE MUSICAL (The Pasadena Playhouse)

    SLEEPY IN SEATTLE In the city of Seattle, Sam is still coping with the loss of his wife who died one year ago leaving behind a pre-adolescent son, Jonah, for him to raise on his own. In Baltimore, Annie isn’t ready to give up on the storybook romance she is longing for, but agrees to…

  • Los Angeles Theater Review: GOD’S MAN IN TEXAS (Sierra Madre Playhouse)

    A  PLAY WHICH  FALLS ON ITS FAITH Faith is one of the most prevalent themes in David Rambo’s God’s Man in Texas, and very likely where you place your faith or where you spend your Sunday mornings will inform your opinions of this production. On the one hand it is a dramatized sermon. On the other, as…

  • Theater Review: ROUND ROCK (Theatre Unleashed at Studio/Stage)

    WE’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER ROCK Since the first ship landed, since the first boot heel dug into the earth, since the first wagon ventured west, the American frontier has stirred the world’s imagination. And it is this very rich history that serves as the foundation for Theatre Unleashed’s newest production, Round Rock, now appearing…

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