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Theater Review: PRESENT LAUGHTER (Cygnet Theatre in San Diego)
VISITING THE PAST FOR PRESENT LAUGHTER If you’re looking to expose yourself to the plays of Noël Coward, this is where to start. Not only did he write Present Laughter (in six days!) to amuse himself AND create the main character based on himself, but he even chose to play Garry in the original London…
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Rancho Mirage Theater Review: JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT (Desert Theatricals at the Rancho Mirage Amphitheater)
DESERT MUSICAL IS AN OASIS IN THE DESERT I have often proclaimed that Andrew Lloyd Webber’s best work was in his pre-1980 collaborations with Tim Rice. If you need proof or simply want to take in some amazing theater, then head to Desert Theatricals‘ last production of the season, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,…
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Cabaret Review: SURVIVING CABARET (Sharon McNight at Green Room 42 in NYC)
40 YEARS OF STORIED SONGS When a songstress entitles her show Surviving Cabaret, one can expect a lot of sad ballads and weepy blues. Not so with Sharon McNight’s new show at Green Room 42. Yes, there is a bit of nostalgia. McNight opens with Janis Ian’s “I’m Standing Here,” which features lyrics proclaiming, “See…
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Theater Review: JUST FOR US (Alex Edelman at the Calderwood Pavilion and Colonial Theatre in Boston)
A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE WHITE SUPREMACIST MEETING If you’re looking for great night of humor about white supremacy and anti-Semitism (and who isn’t?), this is the show for you. Alex Edelman, Boston-born and -bred but now located in New York, brings his one-man show to the Calderwood Pavilion at the…
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The Beginner’s Guide to Writing an Outline for Your Essay: Unlocking the Benefits of Structured Planning
Writing an essay outline is a great way to organize your thoughts and ideas before you start writing. It can help you identify the main points of your essay and ensure that all of your ideas are well-structured and connected. An outline also allows you to easily revise your essay by quickly spotting any areas…
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Extras / TV: How Gamification Becomes a Part of TV Entertainment
Movies have always been the mirror echoing real life. In the meantime, directors and writers try to find the topics that interest big audiences, and which can talk to them. Among movie genres, drama is the second favorite for the US audience, after comedy, today which means the biggest source of TV entertainment, streaming services,…
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Music Review: SIBELIUS AND BRAHMS (LA Phil: Osmo Vånskå, conductor; Inon Barnatan, piano)
STORMS, ROLLERCOASTERS, AND TURBULENCE It was a wild night with the LA Phil at Disney Hall last weekend. For Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1, guest conductor Osmo Vänskä successfully immersed us in the young Brahms’s ominous soundscape. He let the music breathe naturally, holding out long rests unapologetically and often got down to the floor…
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Theater Review: ANGELS IN AMERICA, PART ONE: MILLENNIUM APPROACHES (Arena Stage in D.C.)
AN ANGELIC PRODUCTION Arena Stage’s Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches begins with the Angel (rapturous Billie Krishawn) grooming a sand-swept stage into a giant spiral. As soon as her zen garden is complete, Rabbi Isidor Chemelwitz (stoic Susan Rome) sinks his foot into the stage, telling the story of the emigration of Jews…
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Theater Review: COLONIALISM IS TERRIBLE, BUT PHỞ IS DELICIOUS (Chance Theater in Anaheim)
MANY PARTS ARE EDIBLE It’s fascinating to watch a new generation of Asian playwrights — Mike Lew, Qui Nguyen, Lauren Yee, Dipika Guha, Christopher Chen — writing about the quest for identity as it pertains to traditional upbringing, here or abroad, and current frustrations as modern Asians in America, often addressing race within a meta,…
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Theater Review: IT’S ONLY A PLAY (Theatre 40)
IT’S ONLY A FLOP There’s a glaring contradiction in It’s Only a Play: Written by the usually crafty Terrence McNally, a 20-time Broadway playwright, this two-act love letter to Broadway theater and its “plays of fools” ’” depicted in full fratricidal frenzy at an opening night party ’” utterly mocks its message. The joke is on…
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Theater Review: MENSTRUATION: A PERIOD PIECE (Big Little Theatre Company at the L.A. LGBT Center)
I CAN’T GET THAT TASTE OUT OF MY MOUTH Get ready for a show that is all vagina and no vulva. This bloody awful musical by Big Little Theater Company is of the women, by the women and for the women, especially lesbians — there are lesbians on stage, in the audience, and behind the…
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Theater Preview: TENNESSEE WILLIAMS ST. LOUIS (“Tennessee Williams: A World of Light and Shadow”)
TWSL Expands to Year-Round Programming with 8th Annual Festival Returning September 7-17 “We lived in a world of light and shadow . . . But the shadow was almost as luminous as the light.” Violet Venable, Suddenly Last Summer This year’s fall Festival will give center stage to Suddenly Last Summer, a drama by Pulitzer Prize-winning…
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Film Preview: THE COVENANT (directed by Guy Ritchie – starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Dar Salim)
A bond. A pledge. A commitment. Watch a NEW behind-the-scenes look at Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Dar Salim Watch Now Don’t miss the upcoming action-thriller, also starring Antony Starr, Alexander Ludwig, Bobby Schofield, with Emily Beecham and Jonny Lee Miller, only in theaters April 21. Tickets…
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Broadway Review: BOB FOSSE’S DANCIN’ (Music Box)
THERE’S PLENTY OF GREAT PRANCIN’ BUT IT’S A HEAD-SCRATCHIN’ DANCIN’ There’s whole lotta dancing in the updated, Broadway revival of Bob Fosse’s DANCIN’, closing May 14, 2023 at The Music Box. Exciting dancing. Lyrical dancing. Athletic dancing. Sensuous dancing. Joyful dancing. Dancing full of technique and isolation and articulation and precision and extension. Performed by…
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Oscar-Winning Films That Have Been Turned Into Popular Slot Games
When it comes to slot games, popularity is key to making sure players will try that particular game out. A branded slot game will draw people in, especially if they know what it’s about. And what could be more popular than Oscar-nominated movies? The appeal of movie slot games Before we talk about slot games,…
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Theater Review: GRIEF: A ONE MAN SHITSHOW (Theatre Row’s Studio Theatre, Off-Broadway)
WHERE’S THE GRIEF? A LOT OF GOOD SHIT, BUT WE NEED MORE SHOW Grief. It almost seems to come on a daily basis. You hear people grieve over politics, a lost job, a breakup, the weather — grieving which, in many ways, manifests itself in complaining (misery loves company, yes?). As Colin Campbell tells us…
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Extras: IS SINGING A PROMISING CAREER CHOICE RIGHT NOW?
Millions of people dream about changing careers daily. Some want to switch careers to escape the rat race. While others feel underappreciated in their current roles. One recent poll showed that 96% of respondents wanted to change their jobs. Many workers feel that they missed out on dreams they harbored in their younger years. Becoming…
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Theater Review: CORIOLANUS (Actors’ Shakespeare Project in Boston)
MAMA’S BOY, FOR BETTER OR WORSE When I think of Shakespeare’s women, many names come to mind: Gertrude, Lady Macbeth, Ophelia, Beatrice, Portia, Helena, Titania, Rosalind, Juliet, Desdemona. Going forward, thanks to the powerful performance of Jennie Israel in Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s modern verse translation by Sean San José of Coriolanus, I will always include Volumnia,…
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Theater Review: HAND TO GOD (Coachella Valley Rep)
TAKING HOLD OF EVIL Robert Askins’ 2011 two-act Hand to God is both an existential, insightful commentary on religious hypocrisy and a hysterical dramedy about Tyrone, a possessed sock puppet with a raunchy mouth, violent tendencies, and an overactive sex drive. Given the religious right’s current/ongoing tirade against art, books, sensible gun laws, women’s autonomy…
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Music Review: TCHAIKOVSKY AND SIBELIUS (LA Phil; Conductor Dalia Stasevska, Violinist Randall Goosby)
STASEVSKA, STASEVSKA, STASEVSKA There is much good news about this morning’s program with the LA Phil. Let me start with the most important. Dalia Stasevska, a 38-year-old Kyiv-born musician who lives in Finland, was the Guest Conductor (she is now the Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic). Say that Ukrainian last name over and…
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