A fictional transgender German rock star might sound like an unlikely obsession for a straight (but not narrow!) married lady with a mortgage, but I’m definitely not the only Hedhead.
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Introducing the next Doctor
“The last time I was in heels was in a SCAD production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch.”
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‘Sweeney Todd’ on the cutting edge
“I think everything about this is a super-mega love story,” DeVincent says. “I see it as a series of out-of-control operatic love stories.”
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Staged events: ‘Speech and Debate,’ the Mint Juleps
‘What I like about it is, as it goes through the story it doesn’t go out of its way very naturally. It avoids a lot of clichés. The characters are very real.’
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Humor for grownups
Shel Silverstein’s children’s books have sold somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 million copies. The most popular of these, the touching narrative The Giving Tree and the poetry collection Where […]
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Paging Dr. Furter!
Sixteen years ago, Christopher Blair directed a local production of The Rocky Horror Show. “And I swore I’d never do it again,” he laughs. Ah, but there must be something […]
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Crime & punishment
On Oct. 7, 1998, University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard was brutally beaten and tortured in a rural area of Laramie. He died in a hospital five days later, never […]
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A review: Bay Street’s ‘Cabaret’
A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, Mary Poppins advised the annoying little twerps in her charge. Substitute “music” for sugar, and “politics” for medicine, and you’ve got […]
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Dark days and decadence
What goes around comes around. Cabaret takes place in 1931 Berlin; the play opened in New York City in 1967. The Oscar–winning film version appeared in 1972, and in 2003 […]
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‘Boys’ in the hood
Tom Griffin’s The Boys Next Door is a slice of life. It’s just that it’s a slightly different life. Opening April 15 at Bay Street Theatre, The Boys Next Door […]
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Live onstage: A diverse trio of performances
Bridget Tunstall directs the Bay Street Theatre’s annual production of Eve Ensler’s insightful and incendiary The Vagina Monologues this weekend. Playwright Ensler mandates that 10 percent of proceeds from community […]
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Happy campers
Just in time for Halloween, that campy standby The Rocky Horror Show is coming our way, via Bay Street Theatre at Club One. It’s the club’s second annual production of […]