Exactly 20 years ago, Canadian native Allister Booth was a physics student at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. He’d been a competitive gymnast since he was a little boy, […]
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Playing D&D for keeps
For 20 years, Martin Noyes has been active in the role-playing gamers’ world of Dungeons & Dragons. When the staff of SCAD’s Performing Arts Department discovered the comedy She Kills […]
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‘Reefer Madness’: It’s alive!
The campy, deliberately over-the top film became a cult classic, beloved by potheads who find its unintentional humor illuminating, and funny enough to bust a gut over.
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Spring Awakening
With songs like “Life is a Bitch,” “My Junk,” “Touch Me” and “Totally Fucked,” Spring Awakening is about as far from Oklahoma! as a musical could possibly be.
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The law of attraction
‘There’s a gravity that comes with being on the planet longer. But that doesn’t mean you don’t have to do the actor’s work.’
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Game of Swords
The Three MusketeersWhen: Thursday–Saturday, Feb. 28–March 2 8 p.m.; Sunday, 3 p.m.Where: Lucas Theatre, 32 Abercorn St.Tickets: $25 general, $10 kids/seniors/military, $5 w/ SCAD I.D.; $50 family package of 2 […]
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Classroom chaos theory
Like Lindsay Weir on the late and lamented series Freaks and Geeks, high school sophomore Vickie Martin is a rather reluctant member of the math team. Vickie joins the nerdy […]
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Spam and chocolate
As a kid growing up in Virginia, actor Author Rowan wore out his VHS copy of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. He was, he admits, “one of those people” […]
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Deer Santa: You suck
Santa’s reindeer are revolting. Well, they’re in revolt — some of them, anyway. Things are definitely polarized at the North Pole. There’s your premise for Jeff Goode’s dark comedy The […]
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Behind the veil
Come opening night, all eyes will be on Alexandra Theodoropoulos. The native New Yorker portrays the title character in Oscar Wilde’s Salome, and if you know anything about the Bible, […]
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Reframing a classic
The latest interpretation of his Victorian holiday classic might have Charles Dickens turning over in his grave — with joy. Always interested in poking at stuffy societal conventions through his […]
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From out of the wings
Like all thespians, Bryan Pridgen is good with words. “We are,” he says, “a young company of professionals with big dreams and a lot of nerve.” Pridgen is a co–founder […]