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Theatre Review: ‘tick, tick… BOOM!’ at The Kennedy Center in DC

Any fan of musical theatre worth their salt knows the name Jonathan Larson. Larson wrote one of the most influential musicals of all time, Rent, which has had a life on Broadway, national tours, international productions, community theatre productions, a ...
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TV by the Decade :: Jan 28•Feb 3

Only a handful of new series made their debuts this week, but they include a classic daytime soap opera, a live variety show with an infamous blooper, a classic Norman Lear sitcom, a detective show that faced its own off-screen ...
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A Chorus Line is one singular sensation at Toby’s Dinner Theatre of Columbia, MD

A Chorus Line has become an old chestnut for fans of Broadway musicals since its debut in 1975, running for 6,137 performances -- the longest running Broadway musical until 1997 when it was surpassed by Cats -- earning 12 Tony ...
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Annie at The National Theatre in DC is nothing new, but always welcome

Any review of Annie must open with the old theatre adage: 'Never work with children or animals.'It's a line with some merit to it, of course, and it's not hard to tell where it came from. Serious thespians were tired ...
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Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #183 :: January 24•30

This last week of January featured a large collection of new films but, as we've seen with January releases, not a lot of them were memorable, and most of 1924's films are now considered lost. There were a few bright ...
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TV by the Decade :: January 21•27

It was a fairly good week for new TV series premieres, with several new series making their debuts that went on to long runs. 1954 produced a TV Western series whose star would go on to be better known for ...
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Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #182 :: January 17•23

Mid-January is not the greatest time for movies. Yes, there are plenty of new releases but few of them made any lasting impression. Sadly, at least five of the films released in 1924 no longer exist, but two do survive ...
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TV by the Decade :: January 14•20

Two decades took the week off but 1974 gave us one classic, long-running sitcom that very nearly never existed if it hadn't been for George Lucas, of all people. 1984 gave us a show about ninjas that had a short ...
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Apple TV’s Monarch: Legacy of Monsters :: Season 1 Review

Fans of the Godzilla/Kong cinematic 'Monsterverse' were pretty excited when it was announced there would be a TV series to further develop the Monarch storyline that was introduced at the end of Kong: Skull Island, the notion that there was ...
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The Beekeeper Review :: Jason Statham does his best in a fun, dumb action movie

The Beekeeper comes from director David Ayer and was written by Kurt Wimmer -- both have mixed records in terms of quality action movies, but Kurt Wimmer didn’t write the bad first version of Suicide Squad and David Ayer had ...
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Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #181 :: January 10•16

Mid-January brings us a mix of easily forgotten and quite memorable films, many of them earning Oscar nominations and wins which is unusual for films released in the first weeks of the new year and all but forgotten by the ...
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TV by the Decade :: January 7•13

It was a pretty good week for new series premieres, with only two decades taking a break, and several series going on to long runs. 1953 had an unhistorical Western series based on a historical character that ran for three ...
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