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Cy Coleman—Hits and a Miss
Friday, June 3rd, 2011
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around
Cy Coleman had a lengthy, multifaceted, successful career. A child prodigy, he began giving classical piano concerts at age six, went on to found a
Tetragrammaton—Vaudeville in Stages
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around
Tetragrammaton is vaudeville with a through line; indie theater; tall tales, superstition, stereotype, a bit of music; flim flam men, the old switcheroo, caricatures, comeuppance.
Pieces—Modern Gothic
Sunday, November 14th, 2010
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around
Twins, Beatrice and Jack (Louise Collins and Steven Meo), are ten going on thirty…as conceived by Charles Addams or Roman Polanski (repressed, dark, possessed?) influenced
Flight 33 Is Still Circling
Sunday, May 23rd, 2010
by Aimee Garn on Living Around
I first thought about time travel in 1961, when I saw a Twilight Zone episode called “The Odyssey of Flight 33,” in which a plane
The Good Wife Is Good Drama
Sunday, October 4th, 2009
by Charlene Giannetti on Playing Around
Alicia Florrick stands by her man, Peter Florrick (Chris Noth), caught in a sex scandal and forced to resign as Cook County’s State Attorney. While
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