With puppetry and magical realism 'Ernie's Secret Life', conceived during the pandemic lockdowns, warms the heart and sparks the sense of wonder.
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To GLP-1 or Not to GLP-1: That Is the Big Weight Loss Question!
I’ve had a weight problem pretty much my entire life. And, mainly to take the weight off my now-arthritic knees, I’m about to take a stab at one of the new GLP-1 medicines. Even Weight Watchers has a GLP-1 plan through its partner Sequence. (I did check into this one, …
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"If you want to make it in this business with your talent, you've got to commit."
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'I Can Get it For You Wholesale' reminds us of the toxicity of materialism and the hypocrisy of religious prosperity messages that exclude humanity and neighborly love and decency.
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'Spamalot is a laugh riot that speeds by at a break-neck pace. The ensemble are clowns of high art, who know how to do comedy. Gobsmacking!
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'Harmony' is a musical about an internationally famous, all-male German ensemble that performed between 1928 and 1934 until the Third Reich banned them as degenerates.
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In Bedlam's revival of Tom Stoppard's 'Arcadia' the past and the present gradually merge as the truth comes clear about love and the second law of thermodynamics.
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'The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle' by Kent Monkman and Gisele Gordon is an important and beautiful work of art.
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Infused with magical realism, 'Flawless' isn't the intense, gritty family drama that the subject of dementia might suggest.
Read More »Review: ‘The Frogs’ – A Concert Staging of the Stephen Sondheim Musical, Based on Aristophanes
A combination concert performance and staged reading of 'The Frogs' by Stephen Sondheim, based on the Aristophanes play and adapted by Burt Shevelove and Nathan Lane, featured high comedy and wonderful rarely-heard music.
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