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Like my best friend Dolores said, “It’s Sesame Street gone bad!” That’s the perfect way to describe the Tony-award winning musical Avenue Q. Set in a nondescript neighborhood in New York City, AQ is the brain child of Robert Lopez, Jeff Ma...
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The aftermath is often the most excruciating aspect of war. When the dust settles, exposing the rubble, the real work begins. Governments may divide the territorial spoils, but individuals must negotiate their own spaces.
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Tennessee Williams’ latter day plays—though unappreciated during his lifetime—are now having a revival of sorts around the country. New York is offering productions of The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore (from 1963), as well as The Wooster ...
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Rossini’s IL TURCO IN ITALIA has never managed to catch on with the public. A flop at its 1814 premiere, the opera found occasional champions (Maria Callas being one) but has resisted being recognized as a misunderstood masterpiece. The current produc...
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Among the most interesting things about Marc Blitzstein’ s 1937 musical, The Cradle Will Rock, is that as part of the Federal Theatre Project, and under the artistic direction of Orson Welles, the original production was forcibly shut-down...
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Stagings of the musical Catsare about as varied as the actual animal on which the story is based and the show is titled. Some Cats productions are distant and un-ingratiating, while others are warm and endearing. Thankfully, in the latest west coast ite...
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The recent memorial marking the 25th anniversary of the Challenger disaster serves as a reminder that the American dream does not always reach its promised heights. Recent economic events come closer to home for many American families, who find their ow...
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'Take thy beak from out my heart,And take thy form from off my door!'Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.'
The famed, horror writer Edgar Allan Poe decides to visit his childhood friend who is selling the family home. There are a lot of memories in the massive...
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Spoon River Anthology was written in 1950 by Edgar Lee Masters. It began as a series published in the magazine, Reedy's Mirror, but it has long since been compiled as a single text and is now considered an American literary classic. It's reasonable to p...
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Larry Blum, last name rhymes with 'glum,' is a hysterical, astute personality who speaks the truth no matter how embarrassing it might be. He is the go-to guy when you want to find out some gossip on anyone.
His hilarious one-man show, "BLINK and You M...
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Matchmaking these days happens in a different kind of public than in the early 1800's. Online dating sites, Face Book introductions, Twitter tweets, and other social media innovations take the worry out of being close, as millions of single searchers ca...
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Circle Mirror Transformation is not only the title of Annie Baker's Obie Award-winning play--now in its west coast premiere on South Coast Repertory's Julianne Argyros Stage, through January 30; Circle Mirror Transformation is also the name of an a...
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Suppose a giant lived in a castle, located in a cloud. Further, what if that giant had plenty of food, but the people in the town below had had little to eat? Could the two "factions" somehow work out an equitable agreement? This is the question that is...
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They're baaack! Back from a long absence. Back from the dead (as the creative storyline tells it, that is). And, most importantly for SoCal audiences, back to the Globe. In a reincarnation as "Plaid Tidings," the Forever Plaid quartet, along with perenn...
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John Lyly had it right. "The rules of fair play do not apply in love and war," said he. "Ruined," Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, echoes that sentiment more than 400 years later. Wars are not reasonable; love cannot be rational.
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