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Mike Huguenor on December 29, 2021
The holidays are rarely so high-flying or reality-defying as they are in A Magical Cirque Christmas. In this wintry performance, incredible feats of acrobatics meet jaw-dropping magic, all set to a yuletide soundtrack that arrives just in time for the end of the holidays. Twirling rope and hoop performers, tumbling gymnasts and…
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Elliott Sky Case on December 22, 2021
Nollaig shona! (That’s ‘Merry Christmas’ in Irish.) This Wednesday, Tomáseen Foley’s A Celtic Christmas—now in its 25th season—comes to the South Bay a day after the winter solstice. Celebrating the light to come after the longest nights of the year, A Celtic Christmas shares Irish tradition through story, dance and song. The…
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Grace Stetson on November 10, 2021
Over the last 18 months, a generation of young cooks entered the kitchen as novices and began perfecting skills in bread-making, baking and cooking. For one celebrity chef, the at-home DIY spirit was just the start of what’s to come—and the main reason he’s getting back on the road now.
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Jay Edgar on November 3, 2021
Perhaps best known for his famous essay The Santaland Diaries—which chronicles his young adulthood travails as a Christmas Elf at a Macy’s—David Sedaris has earned a reputation as a curmudgeon for the underdog, sardonically taking down the little indignities that the common person faces every day. Sedaris’ latest collection Calypso takes an…
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Alec Adams on October 6, 2021
How much is there left to be said about Hamilton? At this point, it is easily the most culturally salient Broadway show of this writer’s lifetime, the hip hop tale of the orphan Alexander Hamilton, who rises from poverty to become one of America’s founding fathers. Back when it was brand new,…
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Mike Huguenor on September 22, 2021
The rise of Filipino singer Arnel Pineda is one of the most inspiring underdog stories in rock. Since the early ‘80s, the musician had entertained locals around the Philippines and Hong Kong in a variety of popular bands—though his immense vocal talents went overlooked by the rest of the world. That is,…
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Few artists get to have a career spanning 60 years, but Persian pop star Googoosh has earned each of them. In the 1970s, the iconic singer was like the Iranian Edith Piaf, a romantic and ever-present voice in the popular consciousness, inspiring love letters, women’s hairstyles and fashion shoots. Before that, she…
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Wallace Baine on December 11, 2019
Singer and songwriter Sara Bareilles is the musical talent behind this winning theatrical production that is still running both on Broadway and in London’s West End theater district. It tells the story of Jenna, a waitress and supernaturally talented pie-maker who is also pregnant and stuck in a bad marriage. Her salvation…
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Jeffrey Edalatpour on November 6, 2019
Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil—the duo behind Les Misérables—take on Puccini with their musical theater adaptation of Madama Butterfly. Set to the backdrop of the Vietnam War, Miss Saigon unfolds to the staccato sound of helicopters and the brutalities of armed conflict. Will the American soldier do right by the woman he…
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Nick Veronin on May 23, 2019
The times they are a-changin’—indeed. One wonders what Teve the Dairyman would think of this oft-quoted Robert Zimmerman lyric. He’d probably roll his eyes. After all, The Wisdom Books teach us there is nothing new under the sun, including perpetual change. Teve, the central figure of Broadway classic Fiddler on the Roof,…
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