Fade (Play) – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
While predictable at times, Fade brings seldom heard voices to the stage. One which verbalizes a familiar tale with a different culture as the focus.
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Trevor Noah: Afraid of the Dark – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
While Trevor Noah, like many comedians today, dabbles in observations on politics, traveling and life, there isn’t a lot of yelling, screaming, cursing and what have you. It’s about the storytelling, the use of accents, and the type of comedy you hear from friends every day. Just laced up well into an hour long special.
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The New Edition Story (Part 1) – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
All TV Biopics aim to be on the level of the Temptations or Little Richard, but often times they at worse are the Aaliyah movie or on the level of CrazySexyCool. However, with The New Edition Story, be it because it is in multiple parts and not cramming 5 lives and careers into two hours,…
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The Coconut Oil Tour (Featuring Lizzo) – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
While the opening acts bring about a sort of blemish to the show, Lizzo makes heading out to the Bowery Ballroom worth your time.
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Familiar – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
While I don’t see plays often, I figure why not crack open another section as I try to get out more. Now, focusing on Familiar, as with past Danai Gurira plays, like Eclipse, the focus is strongly about being totally African, yet there is this small desire to look at what American has and does….
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Kinky Boots (Musical) – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Depending on how you look at it, either this is a show about trying to understand people and acceptance or how tolerance only goes so far as you are an asset, or convenient to those in power.
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The Who You Selling For Tour (Featuring The Pretty Reckless) – Review
At Terminal 5 the bass was heavy, floors vibrating and all, and while you could barely hear anyone singing, you could feel the instruments pulsating through the ground.
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Echoes – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Two young women speak on the life and death of their characters who tried to do wonderful things in the name of religion. However, they were met with men who twisted the words of their respective gods to fit their ill wills.
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Akatsuki no Yona [Yona of the Dawn] (OVA): Sono Se Niwa – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview What seemed like a silly OVA, which could have become perverted, thankfully is about exploring Gija’s relationship with his father, as well as hinting at Jeaha’s childhood.
