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Hysteria—Better Living Through Electricity
Thursday, May 24th, 2012
by Abby Cañeda on Playing Around
It comes in neon colors and lines the shelves of sex shops. Earlier versions looked like unpredictable power tools. Eventually, the invention evolved into the ultimate de-stress tool
Freud’s Last Session—It’s-Yes!-Entertaining
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around
Psychoanalysis does not profess the arrogance of religion, thank God. Sigmund Freud in the Play Attention thinking theater-goers! If you haven’t caught up with Freud’s Last
Laura Dave’s The First Husband: Sometimes Love Gets Messy
Monday, May 21st, 2012
by Charlene Giannetti on Reading Around
Annie Adams loves the film Roman Holiday. “It was my comfort movie,” she says. “It was, quite simply, my comfort.” Unfortunately for Annie, every viewing
Noël and Company Presents Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around
The Mouse Trap, which began as a short radio piece in 1947, opened formally at The Theatre Royale in Nottingham in 1952. It’s been running
Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman:An Ebullient and Smart Production
Monday, May 7th, 2012
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around
Attention refugees from such as the over-zealous, psychedelic projections of Ghost and the phoned-in performance by Matthew Broderick in Nice Work If You can Get
Believing In Judy-ism
Friday, April 20th, 2012
by Michall Jeffers on Playing Around
The immediate question that must be asked when discussing End of the Rainbow is whether or not it will have an appeal to those who
Out of Africa—My Adventure with Lions, Tigers, and a Teenage Daughter
Wednesday, April 18th, 2012
by MJ Hanley-Goff on Living Around
It was getting into the eighth hour and I was starting to get a bit fidgety. I’ve done seven-hour flights, even eight, but I was
Noel & Company
Sunday, April 8th, 2012
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around
In early February 2012, actor/singer/writer/director Keith Merrill approached friend Mary Ellen Ashley, herself a singer/actress/producer with the idea of establishing what would eventually become a
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