Wedding Fun And Alice Porn
- June
- 11
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It’s 100 degrees here in New York City and feels like Satan took his balls and rubbed it on the sky and then tea bagged the whole of humanity.
Anyway, back from the big wedding event of the summer between our good friends Eli and Lindsay. Eli is actually pretty famous in the world of politics. [...]
Csi Creator Anthony Zuiker Intrigued By Live Theaters Secret Weapon
- June
- 9
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He attends the International Mystery Writers’ Festival as winner of this year’s Ira Levin Award, an award given to someone who has “come from behind to become a success.” Before achieving success, Zuiker was a tram driver at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas.
During the festival, Zuiker will present the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Award to [...]
Live Nation Changes Name Of Philly Venue
- June
- 9
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The Fillmore at the TLA in Philadelphia recently underwent a name change, part of Live Nation’s cross-country re-branding of several of its theaters. The venue has quietly returned to its original name, Theatre of the Living Arts aka TLA.
Other Live Nation owned Fillmores include the Fillmore at Irving Plaza in New York, the Fillmore Miami [...]
Load Up On Live Action
- June
- 1
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We’re not talking about such action movies as “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull †— with its endless trek through the desert and over treacherous mountains.
We’re talking about live action. And this live action showcases the talents of local community theaters with their vast selection of staged productions and seasoned actors [...]
Not So Entertaining These Days
- June
- 1
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As our daughter rose in the musical ranks, my husband and I attended every performance that we could. We rearranged work schedules to hear her play for two minutes. She would roll her eyes in humiliation as her parents sat beaming in the front row, trying desperately not to shout, “Encore, Encore” after her rousing [...]
Beidler Explains Cost Of Theater
- June
- 1
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If you missed the Harnett Regional Theatre production of Irvin Berlin’s “Annie Get Your Gun,” you missed a great evening of theater. Mellicent and I have enjoyed most of the big hits but had always passed this one by.
You would have been surprised. The stage setting was absolutely fabulous with brilliant lighting, and the sound [...]
Its Live Theater Not Pajama Party
- May
- 19
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I went to a show the other night and stood in the will-call line for my tickets. In front of me was a woman, who I remember nothing about, other than the fact she was wearing pajama bottoms — to the theater!
My heart sank. Have we really come to this? I felt like that when [...]
Metropolitan Opera honors Zeffirelli for his lavish productions
- April
- 8
NEW YORK - Franco Zeffirelli, who has directed film,
theater and opera worldwide, is being honored this weekend for the
dozen lavish productions he created that “shaped the history” of
the Metropolitan Opera.
Three Zeffirelli productions are being performed this season,
including Puccini’s “La Boheme.” Its season opening Saturday was
a celebration of the Italian director who made his Met debut [...]
“Horton” stays true to magical genius of Seuss
- April
- 8
It took longer than it should have. But in “Horton Hears a Who!” the genius of Theodor “Ted” Geisel has finally made it to the big screen in ways that charm but do no harm to the the good Dr. Seuss’ rhymes and delightful reasons.
And directors Jimmy Hayward and Steve Marino even [...]
‘StopLoss’
- April
- 8
Despite Jon Stewart’s Oscar-night jokes about all the Iraq war movies that no one goes to see, the five-year-old war is still relatively underrepresented in commercial films. And yet, on the rare occasion one surfaces, we view it through a thick mist of d%26#233;j … vu. Is it that all wars are fundamentally the [...]
