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Jon Sobel is Blogcritics' Culture and Theater Editor. In addition to reviewing NYC theater, he writes a semi-regular round-up of independent music releases. By day he is a computer professional and a freelance writer and editor, and at night he's a working musician: lead singer, songwriter, and bass player for Whisperado, a founding member of the Kings County Blues Band, and a sideman. His most recent venture is Oren Hope Marketing and Copywriting, through which you can hire him to write whatever marketing materials your heart desires.
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Theater Review (NYC): MilkMilkLemonade by Joshua Conkel
The Management's new production explores being gay in Middle America with hilarity and heart.
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Theater Review (NYC): Emily by Chris Cragin
This diverting play aims to bring Emily Dickinson to life through drama and poetry.
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Theater Review (NYC): Lizzie Borden
This new rock musical is loud, dark, creepy, lovely to look at, and strikes like a hammer – or an axe.
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Theater Review (NYC): Spinning the Times - Five World Premieres by Female Irish Playwrights
Top-notch Irish drama comes to NYC.
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Theater Review (NYC): As You Like It
Shakespeare in all his glory under the rumbling elevated trains of Long Island City.
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Theater Review (NYC): A Time to Dance by Libby Skala
In this uplifting solo play Libby Skala channels her great-aunt, whose fascinating life could be said to have embodied the 20th century.
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Theater Reviews (NYC): Willy Nilly and MoM at the Fringe
A band of suburban moms unexpectedly achieve the musical success that eluded Charles Manson.
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Theater Review (NYC): Being Patient: When All You Want is the Sunrise by Kelly Samara
This hospital one-act is anything but maudlin. It's tense, gripping, funny, and surprisingly celebratory.
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The Re-Education of a Road Trip Nation
I'm a public transportation snob. But there's this nice house in the country, see...
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Music Review: Rachel Taylor Brown - Susan Storm's Ugly Sister and Other Saints and Superheroes
In a perfect world, Brown's superhero songs would be distributed in goodie bags at Comic-Con.
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