The innovative troupe's new production pulses with the warm life, twisted and difficult just like real life, that it's so rewarding to see on stage.
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Days of Sicily, Knights of Malta – Part 9 and Conclusion: Malta and Gozo
Roman, medieval and World War II history mingle on the fascinating islands of Malta and Gozo.
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Enter to win a copy of the original Broadway cast album of the musical written for and starring Idina Menzel.
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Written entirely in iambic pentameter, this work of Shakespearean scope does not have Shakespearean results.
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'I'll Say She Is' will get a full production this summer at the New York Fringe Festival. Before this weekend's staged readings, the Marx Brothers' first Broadway musical hadn't been seen in any form in 90 years.
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Tina Schlieske's gutsy singing and songwriting both owe much to her predecessors in bluesy soul, but while any of these 12 songs might remind you of something, they sound anything but tired.
Read More »Days of Sicily, Knights of Malta – Part 8: Prehistoric Malta
The 1953 movie 'Malta Story' made me want to visit that tiny Mediterranean country so disproportionately weighted with lore from prehistoric times to WWII.
Read More »Music Review: War – ‘Evolutionary’
Unlike most bands from the classic rock era, War's style never quite went "out of style" the way, say, southern rock or progressive rock did. Funky is still funky.
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Win a copy of War's first new studio album in two decades together with the first-ever CD release of the band's 1976 'Greatest Hits.'
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Schulenberg marshals all his gifts for comedy, poetry, scintillating wordplay and magical realism in his latest Flux Theatre bouquet – until it all runs away from him.
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