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Extras: THREE UNFORGETTABLE HOLLYWOOD COUPLES
Three Unforgettable Hollywood Couples Love does many things to human beings’”it turns on the feel-good neurotransmitter dopamine, adds in a few drops of serotonin, and raises levels of stress hormone, cortisol. It’s a chemical, physical, and (some would say) spiritual concoction that doesn’t always find the perfect measurement of ingredients or stand the test of time…
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Music Review: EXOTIC BIRDS: DEBUSSY, MESSIAEN AND SAARIAHO (Esa-Pekka Salonen and the SF Symphony)
EXOTIC BIRDS, 47 SPECIES OF BIRDS, AND DEBUSSY BY LAND AND BY SEA Esa-Pekka Salonen walked slowly to the podium and when he arrived, he stood, frozen, for an extended period of time, as if he were calling upon a moment of silence and so, when the first bars of Claude Debussy’s Prélude í L’Après-midi d’un faune…
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Film Festival: ETHEREAL HORROR FEST (Austin, Texas)
Ethereal Horror Fest announces the 2021 lineup with over 90 films from all over the world including shorts starring Zachary Quinto, Margaret Cho and Hana Mae Lee. This year’s event will be held at the Tiger Den ATX, October 23rd & 24th, 2021. For full lineup and tickets visit ETHEREAL. The Austin TX based horror festival…
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Dance Review: BODYTRAFFIC (Ethan Cohen “Recurrence”; Micaela Taylor “SNAP”; Hoffesh Shecter “Dust”; and Alejandro Cerrudo “PACOPEPEPLUTO” at The Wallis in Beverly Hills)
THAT’S AMORE! L.A.’s amazing dance company BODYTRAFFIC returned to The Wallis’s gorgeous Bram Goldsmith Theater in Beverly Hills last weekend with a three-night engagement of four outstanding works that proved why this L.A.-based contemporary company has continually taken the dance world by storm, easily surpassing LA Dance Project as our greatest homegrown modern dance company….
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Off-Broadway Theater: A COMMERCIAL JINGLE FOR REGINA COMET (DR2 Theatre)
TWO NOBODIES WITH A DREAM. ONE POP STAR WITH A PHONE. THIS IS THEIR CALLING. A Commercial Jingle for Regina Comet, the first new musical to premiere in New York City since the shutdown began, began performancesSeptember 17 at the DR2 Theatre (103 E. 15th Street), and now has been extended to November 21, 2021….
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Off-Broadway Opening: CULLUD WATTAH (The Public Theater)
THE PUBLIC THEATER ANNOUNCES CASTING FOR WORLD PREMIERE PLAY CULLUD WATTAH Written by Erika Dickerson-Despenza Directed by Candis C. Jones Above is the cast for the world premiere of CULLUD WATTAH (think: “colored water”). Developed by Dickerson-Despenza as the 2019-2020 Tow Playwright-in-Residence at The Public, the play — originally scheduled to premiere in July 2020…
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Theater Review: THE MINEOLA TWINS (Moxie in San Diego)
DOUBLE TROUBLE IN MINEOLA Paula Vogel, likely best known for her Pulitzer prize-winning How I Learned to Drive, isn’t afraid to tackle tough themes. In The Mineola Twins, she does so by drenching sensitive topics in a twisted, surrealist comedy that is more a series of connected moments than an actual plot. Everything is fair…
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Music: AMERICAN TRADITIONS VOCAL COLLECTION (2021-2022 Season in Savannah, GA)
The American Traditions Vocal Collection (ATC), previously known as the American Traditions Vocal Competition, has expanded its organizational name to be more inclusive of its year-round offerings. Originally producing one annual event – its namesake competition — the ATC has grown to include year-round musical concert events, a large-scale education program that takes place in…
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Theater Review: A GRAND NIGHT FOR SINGING (Musical Theatre West in Long Beach)
AMERICA’S BEST NOTES Beginning its first season since the COVID shutdown, Musical Theater West has, true to its name, celebrated musical theatre with A Grand Night for Singing, a heartfelt, if sometimes overwrought, salute which happily honors and delightfully reprises the glorious, all-American (in the best sense) Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals and their inexhaustible legacy…
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Theater Review: AS YOU LIKE IT (Chicago Shakespeare Theater)
YOU WILL LIKE IT In As You Like It, the new production at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, the company unites William Shakespeare’s classic romantic comedy, with the Beatles songbook. And the setting has been shifting from Elizabethan England to hippy America in the 1960’s. Does it sound like a reach for still another way to…
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Music Review: DUDAMEL CONDUCTS STRAUSS (LA Phil)
CONSIDER YOURSELF TRANSFIGURED Americans are weary. We remain as divisive as ever, a situation fueled by social media, news, and other white noise. We are working harder and longer yet struggle to pay bills — at the same time quitting jobs in record numbers. Instead of being inspired to do more to combat the speed…
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Theater Review: TOGETHER AT LAST (The Second City’s 109th Revue in Chicago)
TOGETHER IN SPIRIT MORE THAN LAUGHS After an 18-month hiatus inflicted on Chicagoland theater because of the virus pandemic, the Second City has finally opened its 109th revue, the upbeat-titled Together at Last. Second City not only had to endure the COVID disruption, but organizational and backstage turbulence seemed at times to threaten the very…
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Broadway Reopening: AIN’T TOO PROUD –” THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE TEMPTATIONS (Imperial Theatre)
MAGIC IN THE MUSIC Sometimes jukebox bio-musicals get so caught up in the fame and fortune of the journey that they miss the creative passion that is the true force driving most artists forward. Happily, Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations — which returns to Broadway tomorrow, October 16, 2021 — puts…
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Extras: 4 CANNABIS FILMS EVERY USER SHOULD WATCH
4 Cannabis films every user should watch Over the years many films have been made that focus on cannabis consumption, or even just straight-up partying and consuming absurd amounts of drugs and alcohol. Then there are films that have been created that have become iconic in the stoner film genre, such as Pineapple Express, Dazed…
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Extras: HOW TO GET OVER STAGE FRIGHT AND FACE THE CROWD WITH COURAGE
How to Get Over Stage Fright and Face the Crowd with Courage Stage fright is the fear of performing on stage in front of other people. The idea of being in front of a few dozen or even hundreds does seem overwhelming. However, it’s not as bad once you get used to it. There are…
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Theater Review: MOTHER ROAD (San Diego REP)
ROUTE 66 WAS ONE MOTHER OF A ROAD In John Steinbeck’s 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath, we follow along Route 66 the sad travels of Tom Joad and his family, who flee the desperation of Oklahoma’s dustbowl calamity hoping for a safe farming life in California. In Octavio Solis’s Mother Road, there is one…
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Jazz Album: SOLO LIVE (Edward Simon | Solo Piano)
Recorded at Oakland’s Piedmont Piano Company on his 50th birthday in 2019, Solo Live is Edward Simon’s first unaccompanied recording (and only his second album documenting a concert). Unedited, it’s a ravishing portrait of one of jazz’s most eloquent improvisers investigating a setting that’s become one of his primary outlets during the pandemic. Long leery…
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Theater Review: MY FAIR LADY (National Tour)
STILL THE FAIREST I’m rather certain one cannot visit enough productions of My Fair Lady. The 1956 musical, based on George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, tells the tale of Professor Henry Higgins, a puffed-up upper-class grammarian, and Eliza Doolittle, his lower-class, flower girl protégé whom Higgins turns into a lady by changing her speech. With one of the most…
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Extras: THE STRANGEST PHENOMENA THAT HAVE INSPIRED FILMS AND TV SHOWS
The Strangest Phenomena That Have Inspired Films and TV Shows Mate: There are some odd things in this world, and they have inspired plenty of films and TV shows over the years. Please find out more about them here! While we might dream up stories based in strange fantasy lands or the furthest reaches of…
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Off-Broadway Reopening: JERSEY BOYS (New World Stages)
THEY’RE FRIGGIN’ BACK By now, the world knows about the musical Jersey Boys, the story of pop sensation Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons. It’s a triumph, and the NY production leaves all others at the shore. It returns to New York City’s New World Stages (340 West 50th Street) on November 15, 2021. Tickets…
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