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Our star athlete who (in this narrative) out-swam Michael Phelps in a club event and made headlines by taking a year on a “spiritual journey” to the desert, is overjoyed at his success while anxious about the Olympic trials that weekend. One moment he doubts, the next he explains the...
In a musical, characters break into song to express their feelings or advance their agendas, and nobody thinks that's weird. That's just how musicals work. In Nida Manzoor's "Polite Society," teenage aspiring stuntwoman Ria is on a quest to keep her older sister from marrying a suspicio...
Several months ago, one of our reviews inspired someone to call us “woke” – an odd term for an insult or reprimand, its meaning warped to be practically useless for civil discussion. We believe that the arts, including drama, comedy, musicals, and dance, are meant to awaken the senses...