The ring is up. The wrestling is as real as it gets. All they need is the roar of the crowd. Most plays are no sweat. Actors Jose Joaquin Perez and Shawn T. Andrew have been around the block enough to follow the rhythms and the needs of their stage partners. But The Elaborate Entrance […]
Archives for September 4, 2012
Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
There is a new Demon Barber on Fleet Street and the highlights disc of his tale will be a pleasurable discovery for the fans of Stephen Sondheim’s masterpiece, Sweeney Todd. However, it isn’t the best purchase for those who don’t yet know Sondheim’s musical melodrama because it is a highlights disc and, as fine as […]
Body Awareness
If this presidential race has been giving you tunnel vision, come veer way off to the left with us into Shirley, Vermont. The people of playwright Annie Baker’s fictional New England town — polite, well off, and highly academic — are undecided about very little. This is the quiet land of care, community, and political […]
Reals
Hollywood has made billions cashing in on our fantasies of having special powers like the comic book superheroes. Yet some people actually turn the dream into reality by dressing in costumes and doing good deeds or even fighting crime as street vigilantes. Gwydion Suilebhan tackles the psychology behind these real-life superheroes, or REALS, in an […]