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Gambit's Fall 2025 Preview: New Orleans festivals, musicals, holiday events and more
Gambit - Louisiana
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New Orleans’ fall season is full of entertainment, with touring bands and comedians, local festivals and parades, college and pro football and more. Gambit’s Fall Events Preview looks at the months ahead with dates, venues and more. Listings...
‘Sacrifice’ Review: Cult Leader Anya Taylor-Joy Wants to Throw the Rich into a Volcano in Romain Gavras’ Wild Satire of Performative Environmentalism
IndieWire
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September 7, 2025
It sounds like the premise for a smug Ruben Östlund satire: The wealthiest people in the world gather together for a glamorous and environmentally-minded charity gala in a Santorini mine quarry, only for the function to be invaded by the heavily...
‘Maddie’s Secret’ Review: John Early Plays a Woman with an Eating Disorder in a Comedy That’s More Sincere Than Satirical
IndieWire
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September 7, 2025
“Maddie’s Secret” is probably not what you are expecting. Comedian John Early’s directorial debut, ostensibly a pastiche of basic-cable TV movies, is not a parody, or a satire, or even a comedy. Instead, it turns out a devastatingly sincere high...
Situ Singh Buehler: The soprano who pioneered Western classical music in India
The Hindu
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September 4, 2025
With the rising demand for quality music education in India, if one happened to be interested in Western classical singing but didn’t quite know where to start, a quick search or word of mouth would bring them to Situ Singh Buehler. On the...
Fuze (TIFF) Review: Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Theo James star in this tense thriller
JoBlo
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September 7, 2025
PLOT: An unexploded WWII bomb buried in central London is used by a group of thieves to cover up a multimillion-dollar heist. REVIEW: Director David Mackenzie, after several years away following his period epic Outlaw/King, is back. Between this...
Country Singer Nat Myers Grieves Father’s Death During His Own Health Struggles
American Songwriter
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September 10, 2025
Back in 2023, Nat Myers started his country music career when he released his debut album with Yellow Peril. Although bringing his own style of blues to the genre, the singer announced back in February he was diagnosed with an incurable form of...
Delta Center parking garage approved after Salt Lake City secures extra provisions
KSL - Utah
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SALT LAKE CITY — Construction crews are wrapping up the first of three Delta Center remodeling phases, but one of the largest pieces of the next phase received a key approval. Members of the Salt Lake City Council voted Tuesday to approve a zoning...
Review: New Village’s ‘(title of show)’ an earnest, amusing look at theater-making
The San Diego Union-Tribune - California
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September 6, 2025
Back in the spring of 2004, writing buddies Hunter Bell and Jeff Bowen decided to enter a musical in a New York theater festival. There was just one problem. The entry deadline was three weeks away and they had no script, score or even ideas. So...
‘You Had To Be There’ Review: Delightful Romp Recalls 1972 Toronto ‘Godspell’ That Launched Martin Short, Gilda Radner, Eugene Levy & More – Toronto Film Festival
Deadline
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September 7, 2025
The original 1971 off-Broadway production of the musical Godspell starred Stephen Nathan as Jesus, David Haskell as John the Baptist/Judas and such fellow talents as Herb Braha and Peggy Gordon who went on to… well, I’m not exactly sure what they...
Dishonored 'sounded a little bit ridiculous' in the beginning, but came together with the help of the Sweeney Todd musical
PC Gamer
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September 7, 2025
If you were to walk down Lackrow Boulevard in Dunwall—taking care not to linger outside The Black Friar, the dilapidated hotel where the Hatters Gang conduct their business in the legal district—you might stop at number 131. These are the premises...
Jewish comedian Jeff Ross turns tragedy into comedy in ‘Take a Banana for the Ride’: review
Unpacked
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September 7, 2025
There’s a famous adage: “Comedy is tragedy plus time.” Jewish comedian Jeff Ross takes that maxim literally in his Broadway debut solo show, “Take a Banana for the Ride,” now running at the Nederlander Theatre through Sept. 28. The one-man show...
See You Tomorrow at the Food Court Anime Series Review
Anime News Network
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Some shows try to replicate a very specific experience. When I was in high school, whenever my friends and I would finish up with classes, we would always go to the local deli or a card shop one or two train stops away from our school. After a...
‘Sacrifice’ Review: Chris Evans and Anya Taylor-Joy Go on a Confused Cult Quest in Romain Gavras’ Ambitious but Erratic Eat-the-Rich Thriller
The Hollywood Reporter - California
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September 7, 2025
At first, it seems that Sacrifice, from French director Romain Gavras, is trying to do its best Triangle of Sadness. Chris Evans, shaggy of hair and beard, plays a down-on-his-luck movie star, Mike Tyler, who is trying to rehab his image by...
How to Watch the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards
Rolling Stone
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September 7, 2025
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. The MTV Video Music Awards kick off today, Sept. 7, with LL Cool J slated to host. For the first time,...
California Schemin’ review – James McAvoy’s directorial debut is an unlikely rap tale
The Guardian
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September 7, 2025
At the start of the century, a struggling Scottish rap duo decided to overhaul their image in extreme fashion: they began posing as two Americans from California, and managed to secure themselves a record deal with a label in London. Eventually...
Illinois DOGE Profile: Music Theatre Works Inc
North Cook News - Illinois
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September 7, 2025
Kyle A. Dougan, Producing Artistic Director at Music Theatre Works Inc | https://www.musictheaterworks.com/Kyle A. Dougan, Producing Artistic Director at Music Theatre Works Inc | https://www.musictheaterworks.com/ Music Theatre Works Inc, a...
Inside Ozzy Osbourne's man cave and other rock 'n' roll stories
The Herald (Scotland)
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September 7, 2025
The revealing interview was carried out in London by Tom Russell, who had at that time was presenting Radio Clyde's hugely popular Friday Night Rock Show. And now, 36 years later, it is the first jewel in a collection of archive interviews with...
The prodigy with a tin whistle who took music around the world
Inside Croydon
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September 7, 2025
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: The Shakespeare family in Croydon had multiple musical talents. From a portrait of a Victorian soprano, DAVID MORGAN traces the local connections to a small boy playing the organ at St Andrew’s and beyond in a career lasting...
Fall arts and entertainment: New musicals include ‘Purple Rain’ and a Winter Carnival musical
Pioneer Press - Minnesota
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September 7, 2025
A purple rain will fall on the fall theater calendar. The highly anticipated “Purple Rain” musical will make its world premiere at the State Theatre in Minneapolis for a monthlong run before it heads to Broadway. Of course, there are plenty of...
Review: Bright Eyes, Full Hearts
Salt Lake Magazine - Utah
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September 5, 2025
Bright Eyes performed in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2025, at The Depot. Photo by Nate Christianson. Bright Eyes brought all its favorite songs to The Depot last Tuesday (9/2/2025). And for everyone who gathered to see Conor Oberst and his...