This CD has transformed me from a lukewarm Todd Snider fan into a big Todd Snider fan.
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Theater Review (NYC): f-ckplays
Evokes headier eras in picturesque countries where live theater had the power to make audiences go nuts.
Read More »Theater Review: Jean Genet’s The Balcony in New York City
By today's standards, the S&M scenes are so tame as to be barely noticeable. What a difference a half-century makes.
Read More »Music Review: Indie Round-Up – Larsen, Heyman, Everybody Else, Assembly, Brooklyn Rep
Heyman does more things on the drums in two and a half minutes than most drummers do in their band's whole set.
Read More »Religion and Morality: A Match Made in Hell?
Our world is awash in religious wars, and we had better learn to think of them that way.
Read More »Theater Review: Frederic Glover’s Desire in the Suburbs
Ed, a deliciously creepy bolt of jealousy, lopes about his father's suburban kingdom like a modern Richard III.
Read More »Music Review: Indie Round-Up – Lights, Heavies, Seymour, Spanic Boys, Cunniff
You could look at the whole ten-song, 28-minute opus as one long American Gothic murder ballad.
Read More »Theater Review: Hotel Oracle by Bixby Elliot
The whole thing with the Post-It notes is, let's just say, highly original.
Read More »Theater Review: Kander and Ebb’s The Happy Time
Five songs cut from the Broadway show were restored for this production.
Read More »I’ll Outlast You, Mystery Caller
You want an easy mark, 603? Sorry, you're messing with the wrong IT guy.
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