Plenty of pop culture real estate—from The Omen to We Need to Talk About Kevin, to name a few—has been devoted to parents coming to terms with the possibility that their child may be pure evil. But grappling with a potentially holy offspring can be equally fraught, or so suggests The Oldest Boy, a play […]
Archives for June 10, 2019
Talking tap and Donald O’Connor with virtuoso hoofer Robert Mintz from Singin’ in the Rain
Ask any hoofer to name their favorite dance movies, and you’re bound to hear Singin’ in the Rain among their list. The classic 1952 Hollywood musical about the waning days of silent films starring Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor and Debbie Reynolds is one of the all-time great musical films with some of the best dancing […]
Review: A rousing silver anniversary for Step Afrika!
A quarter-century ago, C. Brian Williams, who’d honed his step-dancing skills as a member of Alpha Phi Alpha at Howard University, was visiting South Africa at the dawn of the Nelson Mandela presidency. Williams saw a boy on a roadside doing a step-like gumboot dance, the kind miners in that country developed to communicate with […]
Review: Forest Treás. Pointless replaces puppets with cameras to tell the story of the Beltway sniper attacks
Forest Treás is a fictionalized cozy Mayberry-type Maryland town described by its residents as the “safest place” to live. This original story loosely inspired by conditions surrounding the 2002 Beltway sniper attacks, explores what happens in the heart and soul of a community when danger threatens to destroy their sense of safety. The townspeople enter, […]
The 2019 Tony Awards: The Winners and most memorable speeches not shown on tonight’s Tony Awards show
While viewers in past years might have retired early from the 3 hour Tony Awards show, 2019’s host James Corden gave them plenty of reasons to stay tuned through to the final awards in tonight’s 73rd Annual Tony Awards. Ever the natural showman, Corden ranged from singing and dancing on the Radio City Music Hall […]
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