Just like people have their all whole new different love languages to which they respond best, games of chance such as Bingo and Baccarat also have their language. Gamblers speak and move through games using the language spoken in the games. It is no doubt, Bingo and other games of chance are fun and timeless. …
There are over 500 websites operating in the UK which offer online bingo. If online bingo was a sport, it would be considered the 6th most popular in the UK, with 1.9 million monthly bingo players, and Bingo, in general, is worth over £1 billion a year to the UK economy each year according to …
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Hot new playwright Lucas Hnath takes a great risk by naming his latest play The Thin Place. Its plot and premise could be taken as gossamer light and critics could easily take cheap shots employing the skinny title as emblematic of the work itself. But this haunting ghost story—pardon the pun—contains an unsettling power, enhanced …
Dear Sugar: I was really looking forward to seeing your adaptation of Cheryl Strayed’s book last Sunday at The Pasadena Playhouse—which happens to be my very special alma mater. It’s been a joy to see how it has come alive under Danny Feldman’s leadership after some pretty rough decades. That guy seems to know what he’s …
To bake or not to bake. That is the question explored in Bekah Brunstetter’s timely and poignant play The Cake playing now through October 21st at the Geffen Playhouse. Brunstetter’s play was inspired by the now infamous case of the Colorado baker who refused to bake a cake for a gay couple’s wedding. The case …
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Sharon Yablon has been on the cutting edge of the Los Angeles Theater scene since 1991. Early in her writing career, she creatively took her utterly unique and mysterious worlds to the “stage” by starting Sharon’s Farm. Yablon embraced unconventional theatrical outlets, by presenting her plays in backyards, run down hotels, marijuana dispensaries, and bars …
Bruce Norris’ A Parallelogram, now at Second Stage Theater after productions at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company and Los Angeles’ Mark Taper Forum, certainly has a flashy gimmick which director Michael Greif employs with just the right touch of subtle spectacle in his crisp staging. Through means of a device resembling a TV remote, the central …
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Do you ever wonder if there is more to life than getting out of bed and going to work? I certainly do! In fact, I’ve deliberately created a life full of reading, writing, art, and wonder. I try to spend much of my free time in nature—meaning, specifically, trees, wild grasses, sagebrush, and bodies of …
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Spring is here! Here are some adventurous ideas from the natural world. Let them inspire you to get out and stretch your legs now that the weather has turned for the better. When you’re in nature there’s no telling where your imagination can take you. [alert type=alert-white ]Please consider making a tax-deductible donation now …
There is a little cream puff of a play going on at International City Theatre (ICT) in Long Beach. It’s called The Heir Apparent and comes from the pen of a favorite playwright. His name is David Ives and his earmarks are a nimble mind with plenty of wit delivered with a very light hand. For …
Any life of a certain duration is full of large and small migrations. The good and the bad. And anyone over 50 can appreciate that the rapid societal changes we’ve sustained in the last 60 years have made for larger than normal earthquakes in our personal memories. Watching the splendid revival on the Ahmanson stage …
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When I read Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot at the age of 25, I wondered what the play was all about. When I saw it decades later, I thought it was the most remarkable piece ever written for the theatre. My point: the older you are, the better you appreciate Beckett’s plays. Beckett never was …
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A writer’s affectionate tribute to the Biddle she came to know and work for. It’s all that matters — and it shows.
What LaBute is getting at here is ubiquitous: the monumental difficulty of communicating with one another.
Both Penelope and Romeo and Juliet deliver on their individual promise of an experience worth your time.
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