The crème de la crème of the Paris avant-garde of a century ago mingle with dinner guests, converse about art, and serve dinner in this high-spirited exercise in immersive theater.
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Music Review: Asylum Street Spankers – ‘The Last Laugh’
The final release by the long-running Texas all-acoustic band features live performances from their final shows of songs they'd never released.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Essential Straight & Narrow’ by The Mad Ones
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.
Read More »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.
Read More »Win a Copy of the ‘If/Then’ Broadway Cast Album Featuring Idina Menzel
Enter to win a copy of the original Broadway cast album of the musical written for and starring Idina Menzel.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Tragedy of Dandelion’ by Duncan Pflaster
Written entirely in iambic pentameter, this work of Shakespearean scope does not have Shakespearean results.
Read More »Theater Review: Staged Reading of ‘I’ll Say She Is,’ ‘Lost’ Marx Brothers Musical Not Seen for 90 Years
'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.
Read More »Music Review: Tina and the B-Sides – ‘Barricade’
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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