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Highly Recommended Cabaret: SONGS FROM MY HOLIDAY CLOSET (Revolution Stage Company in Palm Springs)
For years, Stage and Cinema has been covering the work of writer, composer and lyricist LT Cousineau’s original holiday offerings in Chicago. Now setting up Santa’s shop in Palm Springs, LT is presenting for one night only a heartwarming and hilarious “Holi-gay” Revue, Songs from My Holiday Closet. Revolution Stage Company will host the show…
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Extras: WHAT MAKES VIDEO CAPTIVATING? A FILMMAKER’S GUIDE
Have you ever clicked away from a video after just a few seconds of watching? The content was likely missing something crucial for capturing your interest: interesting visuals, captivating storytelling, or an intriguing hook to draw you in. As filmmakers, our job is to combine all these ingredients into one cohesive cinematic masterpiece – but…
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Extras | Theater | Dance: How Legal THC Helps Some Performers Overcome Stage Fright and Anxiety
Experiencing nervousness or anxiety before stepping onto the stage is a common challenge for many theater artists. Traditional techniques like breathing exercises, meditation, or positive affirmations are often employed to ease these jitters. However, an emerging method involves utilizing THC (Tetrahydrocannabinol), the primary psychoactive compound in cannabis, to potentially boost creativity, emotional depth, and focus…
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Music Review: MAHLER 1; SCHUMANN’S PIANO CONCERTO (LA Phil; Zubin Mehta, conductor; Seong Jin-Cho, piano)
Last weekend, Angelinos had the chance to see the 87-year-old grande eminence Zubin Mehta conduct the Los Angeles Philharmonic, which he served from 1962 to 1978 as music director. During his tenure, the orchestra developed the signature Mehta style, emulating the Vienna Philharmonic. (The Los Angeles Philharmonic is unique among the top orchestras in the…
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Cabaret Review: LEVI KREIS: HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS TOUR (part of the Sand, Stars and Guitars Series at the Palm Springs Cultural Center)
GOODNESS GRACIOUS, GREAT BALLS OF FIRE! Levi Kreis, the man from Oliver Springs, Tennessee, brought his 9th Annual Home for the Holidays Tour to the Palm Springs Cultural Center last weekend, and the stage he fully “inhabited” may never be the same. With so many performers putting on a fake stage persona and executing robotic…
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Theater Review: LA VIRGEN DE GUADALUPE, DIOS INANTZIN (Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels)
A PAGEANT OF PEACE AND PERSEVERANCE Since 2002, Latino Theater Company has been presenting La Virgen de Guadalupe, Dios Inantzin, a holiday pageant re-enacting the story of the appearance of the Virgin to an Aztec peasant named Juan Diego. She instructs him to go to the Spanish Catholic Bishop and tell him she wants a…
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Theater Review: BOOP! THE BETTY BOOP MUSICAL (Pre-Broadway World Premiere at CIBC Theatre in Chicago)
BOOP! BOPS, HOPS, AND PLOPS Light-hearted, rather silly, and occasionally preachy, BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical could have been so much more. Betty Boop seems an unlikely candidate for revival considering that her fame is almost entirely confined to cartoons animated by Max Fleischer in the 1930s. Although she has gained new fans through merchandising,…
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Theater Review: SUMMER SESSION WITH THE BONES BRIGADE (CVRep)
CAN’T SKATE AROUND IT: IT’S THE SCRIPT “Let’s Just Skate While We Still Can” — is this the moral of Summer Session with the Bones Brigade, now playing at CVRep through December 17th? Is it really? Does this play earn this last line of the evening? Akiyo Komatsu/DK, Ethan Zeph/Heath, Alex Michell/Lee Kudos to CVRep…
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Off-Broadway Review: SABBATH’S THEATER (The New Group at Pershing Square Signature Center)
TERRIFIC TURTURRO, MARVELOUS MARVEL, CUNNING KRAVITS AND RIOTOUS ROTH: DON’T MISS SABBATH’S THEATER The New Group‘s production of Sabbath’s Theater is a perfect adaptation of Philip Roth’s eponymous 1995 novel. This picaresque, transgressive tale of love and loss, life and death, takes place on Arnulfo Maldonado‘s black almost-bare stage with Jeff Croiter‘s very subtle lighting…
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Theater Review: THE HEART SELLERS (The Huntington Calderwood in Boston)
THESE GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN Two young women, one from Korea, the other from the Philippines, encounter one another in a grocery story on Thanksgiving morning in a small midwestern American city in 1973. Luna (Jenna Agbayani), the talkative one, the outgoing one, invites Jane (Judy Song) up to her apartment. They are the…
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Theater Review: EBENEZER SCROOGE’S BIG SAN DIEGO CHRISTMAS SHOW (The Old Globe)
A REALLY BIG SHOW The San Diego area does not lack for productions of A Christmas Carol this holiday season. Fortunately, fans of the Charles Dickens classic who would welcome a more hip version of the novel need go no further than Ebenezer Scrooge’s BIG San Diego Christmas Show at The Old Globe. (front) Dan…
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Extras: Slingo and Socializing: How Multiplayer Features Enhance the Experience
In the world of online gaming, Slingo games have been making waves as a unique and engaging hybrid of slots and bingo. But what sets it apart from traditional casino games and even other online games is its multiplayer features. In this blog, we’ll explore how Slingo and socializing go hand in hand, and how…
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Concert Review: COMING HOME: THE HOLIDAY CELEBRATION (Michael Feinstein at the Mark Taper Forum)
IT’S LIKE KOSHER EGGNOG What better way to start the holiday season than to spend a Sunday evening with the man with the music, cabaret legend Michael Feinstein, who has single-handedly revitalized the Great American Songbook. Hearing of the pause in subscription programming for the 2023/24 Center Theatre Group season, he asked the new CTG…
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Theater Review: IT’S ONLY A PLAY (The Bent in Palm Springs)
IT IS, INDEED, ONLY A PLAY; IT’S THE ENSEMBLE THAT MAKES IT MORE The Bent, in partnership with the Palm Springs Cultural Center, runs Terrence McNally’s It’s Only a Play for its final weekend this Thursday through Saturday. Go see it. The play unfolds on the opening night celebration for the Broadway premiere of Peter…
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Theater Review: GUYS AND DOLLS (San Francisco Playhouse)
GUYS AND DOLLS IS A SAFE BET Just in time for the holidays, San Francisco Playhouse presents a Broadway favorite, Guys and Dolls. It’s amazing. Were this masterpiece from Broadway’s golden age an actual guy or doll, he or she would be scoring Social Security. But make no mistake, this 1950 hoofer is no worse…
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Concert Review: AUDRA MCDONALD IN CONCERT
A living musical theater legend at the peak of her vocal and interpretive powers In the realm of musical theater, Audra McDonald stands as an unparalleled luminary. Possessing an extraordinary vocal prowess, an arresting stage presence, and an unrivaled artistic gift, she has etched her name as the preeminent diva within this art form. McDonald’s…
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Music: 7 BEST ELECTRIC GUITARS 2023
Thinking about learning electric guitar? It’s definitely a great decision to make as inviting music into your life is something you’ll treasure forever and learning to play the guitar is an investment that will stay with you. It’s a fulfilling experience. You’ll be amazed at how much it can enrich your life. Electric guitars often…
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Off-Broadway Review: AMID FALLING WALLS (TSVISHN FALNDIKE VENT) (Edmond J. Safra Hall at the Museum of Jewish Heritage)
WE LIVE FOREVER When people think of Jews during the Holocaust (if they think of the Holocaust at all) they picture old and young passively assembling for deportation to concentration camps or lining up submissively to be sent to the gas chambers. But National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene’s newest offering Amid Falling Walls (Tvishn Falndike Vent)…
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