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. I was in my early 20s, NYPD Blue was breaking all sorts of rules and watching it was absolutely necessary, especially if you lived in New York. Making fun of it was necessary too – and we did. ”Drink every time David Caruso says ‘come here’ and hugs someone” was the first ... Read The Full Article...
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The Happiest Medium Review By Linnea Covington The charm of filmmaker Ed Wood’s low budget B movies is mainly seen through his poor lighting, technical difficulties, bad actors, and all around sense that a child made the films for their school project rather than a grown man. This isn’t to say they aren’t brilliant, a trait ... Read The Full Article...
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How could I not want to go see a show called Flying Snakes in 3D? With a wink-wink to the obviousness that all theatre is 3D I was more interested in the Snakes. And the Flying. Okay – and the 3D. Though this was a short run (as part of the Ice Factory Festival) it ... Read The Full Article...
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There’s a secret formula to creating a great production of Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple. And really, it’s so simple: cast two men who have great chemistry and a strong friendship off stage to portray two men who are at their wit’s end with each other on stage. By doing so you’ll guarantee a show ... Read The Full Article...
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So, what is a crapshoot, exactly? Basically it’s something risky — something that depends more on luck than on skill … something that has an unpredictable outcome. But the secret to the success of Rising Sun Production’s monthly show Crapshoot! is that while a lot of it is wildly unpredictable, it’s sitting on the shoulders ... Read The Full Article...
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There’s no shortage of star power on Broadway, but there are several shows/stars this season that really stand out: the amazing Audra McDonald and Norm Lewis in the Porgy and Bess revival, which also features stunning portrayals by David Alan Grier as Sporting Life and Phillip Boykin as Crown — all Tony-nominated; young English comic James Corden, giving a Tony-nominated performance that will have you ... Read The Full Article...
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What if you had done something not necessarily evil, but very disturbing? Enough to make you an outcast in society? Hot Steams explores the lives of two imprisoned men who are mentally brilliant but socially inept. We first meet The Man Awake (played by Zach Wegner), who has been in his cell awhile, as he writes in ... Read The Full Article...
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Duncan Pflaster is proving quite the prolific comedic playwright in recent years, with upwards of thirteen works written and produced, several of them award winners, not to mention numerous skits and sketches for various venues. Even then, he freely admits that one of his most recent works, The Taint of Equality or, I ... Read The Full Article...
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Have you ever wanted to be a fly on the wall, or maybe something even more ephemeral? Like a shadow? Bubby’s Shadow by Andrew Rothkin is a ghost story, but one where the living haunt those that have already passed on. It starts, like many ghost stories, on a dark and stormy night. There is a ... Read The Full Article...
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Here’s a one-woman performance piece authored by Canadian playwright, Daniel MacIvor, which has been knocking about since the mid-80s. It’s not difficult to see why, as a dramatic work, See Bob Run is attractive for many smaller production companies: it deploys just one performer, is immediately emotionally and linguistically accessible, requires no real props, ... Read The Full Article...
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It’s almost impossible to imagine that someone could use Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho as source material for a play and both do the original theme justice while simultaneously create something completely new that doesn’t just ape the original. And yet Ashley Jacobson’s The American Play does just that – not only gives a ... Read The Full Article...
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The Happiest Medium review by guest contributor, Linnea Covington. The first trick to getting into Cowboy Mouth is handed to you by a sullen looking lobster standing on a dingy street corner in the East Village. With a glassy-eyed stare the human crustacean thrusts a bag of plastic-wrapped fortune cookies towards you. Inside each delicate confection is your instruction. ... Read The Full Article...
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