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Macbeth is better with beer. When
Jonathan Owicki staged the well-worn Shakespearean tragedy in March, he
decided to add a drinking game, which he says helped the audience—and
actors—gain a
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The audience at Cathedral Park looked so
normal. They licked Popsicles, fanned themselves with their programs and
drank bottles of craft brew. There were kids. And dogs! There were
surely other
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The host of IFC’s Comedy Bang! Bang! wants to know: What’s in Ben Stiller’s wallet?
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In the world of comedy podcasting, Scott Aukerman is David
Letterman to Marc Maron’s Charlie Rose. Where the latter’s much-praised
WTF deconstructs the craft of comedy through sometimes painfu
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Highlighted by the legendary
Elmo-on-helium vocal range of frontman Frankie Valli, the Four Seasons
became one of the most popular music groups of all time, selling 175
million records worldwide
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Forgive me if this review is overly
critical. I was pissed when I saw this show because my date flaked.
Apparently, 10:30 pm is too late for a show when you have work in the
morning. That left m
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In Japanese Kabuki theater, tricks of costuming and
staging assist actors as they undergo swift transformations or make
sudden revelations. It’s a theme applied to bold effect in
Bag&Bagga
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Here’s something of a confession (and perhaps a disclaimer): I’ve never seen the movie version of The Odd Couple.
I’m familiar with the plot, of course, and I’ve watched maybe half an
epis
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Abraham Lincoln was the first president to spare a
turkey’s life at Thanksgiving. Not everyone followed suit. In 1947,
Harry Truman was gifted a turkey by the National Turkey Federation,
which
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TV’s most diabolical genius talks characters, cretins and cavemen.
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Nick Kroll isn’t a spiteful, paranoid, self-centered prick, he just plays one on TV. On FX’s The League,
the 34-year-old stand-up comic and actor portrays Rodney Ruxin, a
Napoleonic product li
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