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Theater Review (NYC): ‘Downtown Race Riot’ Starring Chloë Sevigny
The riot that erupted in Washington Square Park in 1976 becomes the lens through which the playwright elucidates ongoing issues our nation faces today.
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Based on an ancient folk tale, 'Mama White Snake' is very funny, with catchy tunes, good acting and singing, amazing costumes, lovely sets and backdrops – and superb vocals from the ever reliable Cheryl Tan.
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With a good and humourous story, great music, superb singing and acting, and lovely costumes and set, 'The Addams Family' may be almost 80 years old but this grand dame makes for a timeless concept of 'family' that entertains even today.
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For those who suffer from alcohol abuse or dependency, setting a sobriety resolution can be extremely powerful.
Read More »Interview: Rick Shapiro, Author of ‘Hope Never Dies: How 20 Late-Stage and Terminal Cancer Patients Beat the Odds’
A Q&A with Rick Shapiro, leading cancer treatment consultant and author of 'Hope Never Dies: How 20 Late-Stage and Terminal Cancer Patients Beat the Odds.'
Read More »Latest Funding Problem for Louisiana’s Public Defenders: No Lawyers for Death Penalty Defendants
In its 1963 decision in Gideon v. Wainwright, the U.S. Supreme Court held that, under the Sixth Amendment of the Constitution, indigent defendants facing serious criminal charges have a fundamental right to counsel, even if they are unable to pay. But the decision didn’t speak to where the funds for …
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical’
Kyle Jarrow has conceived a story that puts the show's appealing characters into a doomsday scenario encrusted, sea anemone-style, with a surprisingly persistent if easy to take sociopolitical edge.
Read More »Interview: Thelma Reese, Coauthor of ‘The New Senior Man: Exploring New Horizons, New Opportunities’
This is not your father's retirement — and an interview with Thelma Reese, author of 'The New Senior Man,' illuminates why senior men need their own guidebook for this next phase in their lives.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Off-Broadway): ‘Downtown Race Riot’ with Chloë Sevigny
Fashions may have changed and drugs become even more deadly since the 1970s milieu of 'Downtown Race Riot.' But with all its humor, the play bears a troubling message: Friendship and family, potent forces though they are, can't solve the conundrum of tribalism.
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