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THE BEST TRUE CRIME STORIES ON NETFLIX
As a nation, we Americans have long been obsessed with True Crime, but it took documentary and film makers a little while to catch on to the extent of our fascination. Thankfully they did and since then there have been hundreds of brilliant productions. We haven’t quite provided an exhaustive review of all of them,…
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HOW FACTUALLY ACCURATE IS PEAKY BLINDERS?
Peaky Blinders is one of the most successful dramas in recent times, as the viewing figures on the BBC have continued to grow with every season. However, the success of the show has led to a number of tours being established to show locals just how factually correct the drama actually is. Of course, there…
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Virtual Theater Review: WE LIVE ON (Actors’ Gang)
WE LIVE ON Based on HARD TIMES by STUDS TERKEL With additional text by Tim Robbins and The Cast Directed by TIM ROBBINS Music Director – David Robbins Music performed by Cameron Dye Cars waiting in long lines for food. People being evicted and their possessions being repossessed. Tent cities of the homeless and destitute rising up in places they had not been…
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Film Release: CURIOSA (Film Movement)
LOU JEUNET’S FEATURE FILM DEBUT STARRING PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE‘S NOEMIE MERLANT PREMIERES VIA VIRTUAL CINEMA, VOD & DIGITAL TODAY AUGUST 13, 2021 BASED ON REAL LIFE EVENTS, THIS STEAMY PERIOD DRAMA SET IN 19TH CENTURY PARIS UNSPOOLS THE STORY OF THE LOVE AFFAIR BETWEEN THE FRENCH POETS PIERRE LOUYS AND MARIE DE RÉGNIER…
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Theater: DURANG!: FOUR ONE-ACT PLAYS (Live and Streaming from The Hollywood Fringe Festival 2021)
DURANG TIMES FOUR Coming to the Hollywood Fringe Festival soon is Durang!, performed by a fun and diverse cast of 12 local L.A. actors, consists of four wild and hilarious one-act plays written by the incomparable Christopher Durang, writer of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Beyond Therapy, and Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It…
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Theater Event: STEPHEN SONDHEIM & JAMES LAPINE (with Christine Baranski, Bernadette Peters & Mandy Patinkin)
On August 3, Christine Baranski, who was in the original off-Broadway production of Sunday In the Park with George at Playwrights Horizons, moderated an intimate digital conversation event with playwright and director James Lapine and composer Stephen Sondheim to celebrate the release of Lapine’s new book Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I created…
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Theatre: RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN’S SOUTH PACIFIC (Streaming from Chichester Festival Theatre, West Sussex, England)
CHICHESTER’S SOUTH PACIFIC GOES INTERNATIONAL Chichester Festival Theatre’s hugely acclaimed new production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific will be streamed internationally on eight dates in August and September. Recorded live in front of an audience at CFT in July, the same performance will be broadcast on each of the stream dates. While tickets are…
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Theater: THE HUNGER ARTIST (The Porters of Hellsgate at The Hollywood Fringe Festival, 2021)
The Porters of Hellsgate Theatre Company present THE HUNGER ARTIST by Franz Kafka, starring Larry Cedar. The Hunger Artist makes its VIRTUAL debut at this year’s Hollywood Fringe Festival, marking the fifth in a series of one-man literary stagings adapted by Cedar beginning in 2013 with ORWELLIAN (based on the works of George Orwell), NOTES…
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Virtual Theater: URINETOWN THE MUSICAL (MSD Productions)
URINE FOR A GOOD TIME Stage and Cinema has received the first six minutes of a virtual production of URINETOWN The Musical that looks more-than-intriguing. MSD Productions clearly has a full-EQUITY, pitch-perfect cast on hand — selected from around the country — and the vocals are superior quality. But what’s this?! One Night Only? Sunday,…
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Virtual Theater: AND AWAY WE STARED (Trap Door in Chicago)
GET CAUGHT IN THIS TRAP DOOR Bob Wilson, Maryam Abdi, Dennis Bisto, Emily Nichelson, Keith Surney, David Lovejoy In the absence of humans, the stage has gained the ability to put on mechanized performances to please only itself. Using text from the works of Charles Mee, Gertrude Stein, and Matei Vişniec (with translations by. Adam J. Sorkin and Lidia…
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Virtual Theater Review: JUDGMENT DAY (Barrington Stage)
JUDGE FOR YOURSELF Go figure. Just as I declared, “No More ZOOM plays,” along comes the wittiest — no — most hilarious play I’ve seen since COVID shut down live performances. No, before that. I tuned in because of the amazing cast members, each of whom turned in an amazing performance, but found the play…
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Soundtrack: SCHMIGADOON! (Cinco Paul & Christopher Willis)
HERE, SCHMIGGY, SCHMIGGY! Milan Records today releases two albums of music from episodes 1 and 2 of Schmigadoon!, the Apple Original musical comedy series executive produced by Lorne Michaels. Available everywhere now, Episode 1 and Episode 2 soundtracks feature original music and lyrics by the show’s co-creator and showrunner CINCO PAUL in addition to score music by composer CHRISTOPHER WILLIS. Performing the…
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Virtual Theater: WORD FOR WORDCAST (Word for Word’s Second Podcast Season)
NOW THIS IS HOW YOU TELL A STORY Over the last 28 years, San Francisco’s Word for Word theater company has performed short stories of over 100 writers, ranging from Alice Munro to Amy Tan, Tobias Wolff, and James Baldwin. Word for Word believes in the power of the short story to provide solace, compassion,…
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Virtual Theater: STEW RICE (Kumu Kahua Theatre in Honolulu)
Kumu Kahua Theatre will finish it’s 50th season by presenting a live digital reading of one it’s most popular plays, the late Edward Sakamoto’s Stew Rice, with performances by the original cast from the 1995 Season, featuring actors Karen Kaulana-Lobel, Brian Mimura, Amy Nishihara, Sharon Aoki, Michael Sun Lee, Jason Scott Lee, and Marcus Oshiro. Stage…
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Virtual Opera: EVEREST – A GRAPHIC NOVEL OPERA (The Dallas Opera and San Francisco’s Opera Parallí¨le)
THE DALLAS OPERA RELEASES OPERA PARALLÈLE’S EVEREST – A GRAPHIC NOVEL OPERA, A NEW ORIGINAL FILM The Dallas Opera (TDO) is bringing a new film to its streaming platform, thedallasopera.TV, as part of its Originals collection. Available starting July 16, 2021, San Francisco-based Opera Parallèle’s innovative film production of Everest – A Graphic Novel Opera is offered…
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Virtual New York Theater: OFF BROADWAY (Broadstream Media)
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED SATIRE NOW EXTENDED TO JULY 11, 2021 Boy, did I ever enjoy this one! The year is 2020 and the American theater is shut down : but it is not shut off. The new play Off Broadway follows the staff of a non-profit theater as they come together on Zoom and scramble to…
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Virtual Music Concert: ALONE TOGETHER (Jennifer Koh)
JENNIFER KOH PERFORMS WORKS FROM HER ALONE TOGETHER SERIES FOR IDAGIO’S GLOBAL CONCERT HALL IN PARTNERSHIP WITH GBH The dynamic and innovative violinist Jennifer Koh performs a selection of works from her Alone Together series, created in response to the coronavirus pandemic and the financial hardship it has placed on many in the arts community, to be…
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Virtual Dance: GREENER GRASS (Hubbard Street Dance Chicago)
THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER Beginning tomorrow, June 24, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s (HSDC) Season 43: A Virtual Homecoming will conclude with the world premiere of Greener Grass, a full-company work choreographed and directed by former HSDC company dancer Jie-Hung Connie Shiau and featuring original music and composition by Jerome Begin and videography and editing by Kevin Michael Briggs. Hubbard Street Dancers Elliot Hammans…
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Virtual Theater Review: BECOMING DR. RUTH (starring Tovah Feldshuh from North Coast Rep in San Diego)
TO TELL THE RUTH Talk about becoming a hit. Playwright Mark St. Germain (Camping with Henry and Tom, Freud’s Last Session) has done it again. He loves to take us into the lives of renowned true-life personalities, offering us biographical insights into the development of their thinking and way of being, from The Collyer Brothers…
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Virtual Theater: DEAR ELIZABETH (Kevin Kline & Meryl Streep)
Premiering virtually today Thursday, June 17, 2021 at 8pm ET, and playing for an extremely limited time, is Sarah Ruhl’s Dear Elizabeth starring Kevin Kline & Meryl Streep. Presented by Broadway’s Best Shows‘ this marks the conclusion of “Spotlight on Plays” — a starry series of livestream readings of Broadway’s best plays to benefit The Actors…
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