Musicals
Quarterlifers should visit 'Avenue Q'
If you've seen the billboards around town you know this about Avenue Q: it features puppet nudity. What you might not know is that the play is particularly relevant to young people who are unsure of themselves or the direction their lives should take.
The plot of the play, which is playing now through Sunday at Clowes Hall, goes something like this: Princeton the puppet is ...
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'Evil Dead: The Musical' a bloody good time
The other day, I was on the phone with this guy from L.A. Rather than languish in silence, we tried making small talk. Eventually, he asked me about my weekend plans. When I told him I was going to see Evil Dead: The Musical, he freaked out.
"Dude," he said, "We don't have that show out in L.A. You have to send me a program."
It's ...
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Stones, Scorsese 'Shine a Light' on concerts, chicks
We've never been huge Rolling Stones fans. Oh, don't get us wrong -- there are two distinct periods when we regularly listened to Bridges to Babylon and we still fondly remember receiving our first professional lap dance with "Ruby Tuesday" playing in the background. But we've never exactly been inspired to attend a Stones show.
One reason, of course, is that Stones shows are extraordinarily expensive ...
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