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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): Thunder Above, Deeps Below
Three homeless Chicago teens seek a better life in this ambitious, operatic play.
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Music Review: Indie Round-Up - Pere Ubu, Blue Mother Tupelo, Kentucky Headhunters
The Kentucky Headhunters finally release a live album, nineteen years later, and it's a winner.
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Theater Review (NYC): Henry V by the Queens Players
It may be a low-budget production, but its very large and boisterous cast makes for effective charging unto breaches.
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Theater Review (NYC): heavenly BENTO
This unique video-grounded production dramatizes how Sony discovered a magical ability to tap into consumers' unconscious dreams.
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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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