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Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #185 :: February 7•13

It was another big week for new movie releases, and there were a few that have become favorites over the years. Several of the 1924 films still survive today, while 1934 had two films about two women's rise to power ...
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/ by / tags: 50 First Dates, Blazing Saddles, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Germinal, Movies, Movies by the Decade, Queen Christina, Rip Van Winkle, RoboCop, Romeo and Juliet, The Black Cat, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, The Eagle's Claw, The Glen Miller Story, The LEGO Movie, The Uninvited, The Yankee Consul, Thieves Like Us, Unfaithfully Yours, Vampire Academy / Leave a comment

TV by the Decade :: February 4•10

It was a pretty quiet week with just four new series premiering in three difference decades. Animation ruled this week with two new long-running, award-winning shows making their debuts in 1994. 1974 gave us a rural drama that had a ...
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/ by / tags: Aladdin, Apple's Way, Buy This Restaurant, Television, TV by the Decade, TV Commentary, Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? / Leave a comment

Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #184 :: January 31 to February 6

There were many, many movies released this week across the decades, and it was a very busy week at Hotchka Central so we were unable to provide the usual trivia for the films this week. But scroll down the list, ...
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/ by / tags: Abraham Lincoln, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, All of Me, Captain America, Dark Habits, Dark Hazard, Hell and High Water, Hips Hips Hooray!, Jane Eyre, Movies, Movies by the Decade, Reckless, Romeo is Bleeding, Shell Shock, The Fighting Sullivans, The Holly and the Ivy, The House of Seven Corpses, The Leather Boys, The Monuments Men, Zardoz / Leave a comment

Mrs. Doubtfire National Tour Review at Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre

Way back in 1993, Robin Williams was cast in what would become one of his most popular movies, the family comedy Mrs. Doubtfire which saw Williams take on the role of Mrs. Euphegenia Doubtfire, an older Scottish nanny hired to ...
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/ by / tags: Aaron Kaburick, Axel Bernard Rimmele, Baltimore Hippodrome Theatre, Broadway Across America, Cody Braverman, Emerson Mae Chan, Giselle Gutierrez, Kennedy Pitney, Leo Roberts, Maggie Lakis, Mrs. Doubtfire Baltimore Review, Mrs. Doubtfire Broadway, Nik Alexander, Rob McClure, Romelda Teron Benjamin, Stage, Touring Shows Review, Work Light Productions / Leave a comment

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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/ by / tags: Brandon Uranowitz, Broadway Center Stage, Denée Benton, Eisenhower Theatre, Grey Henson, Kelvin Moon Loh, Kennedy Caughell, Musical Review, Neil Patrick Harris, Nikhil Saboo, Stage, The Kennedy Center, tick tick... BOOM!, Yael Reich / Leave a comment

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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/ by / tags: College Hill, Good Times, Inside Politics, Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, Television, The Jo Stafford Show, The Secret Storm, TV by the Decade, TV Commentary, Wallykazam! / Leave a comment

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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/ by / tags: A Chorus Line, A Chorus Line Toby's Dinner Theatre Review, Alexis Krey-Bedore, Amanda Kaplan-Landstrom, Angelo Harrington II, Ariel Messeca, Brandon Bedore, Brian Dauglash, David Singleton, Jeffrey Shankle, Jessica Barraclough, Julia Williams, Kiana King, Leela Dawson, Lydia Gifford, Musical Review, Nicky Kaider, Ryan Sellers, Stage, Toby's Dinner Theatre / 2 comments

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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/ by / tags: Addie Jaymes, Annie, Annie DC Review, Arianna Guller, Avery Hope, Broadway Across America, Christopher Swan, Jade Smith, Jeffrey T. Kelly, Julia Nicole Hunter, Kylie Noelle Patterson, Mark Woodard, Rainier Trevino, Samantha Stevens, Savannah Austin, Stage, Stefanie Londino, The National Theatre, Touring Shows Review / Leave a comment

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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/ by / tags: A Global Affair, Black Belt Jones, Broadway Danny Rose, Car 54 Where Are You?, Children of the Damned, Dr. Strangelove, I Frankenstein, Man's Favorite Sport?, Movies, Movies by the Decade, Never Cry Wolf, Posse Cat, Surf Party, The Big Bounce, The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, The Great Diamond Robbery, The Shadow of the Desert, You Got Served / Leave a comment

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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/ by / tags: 'Til Death Do Us Part: Carmen and Dave, Airwolf, Are You the One?, Babylon 5, Black Sails, Broad City, Dark Rye, Dave the Barbarian, Opposite Worlds, Rake, Rods N' Wheels, Stories of the Century, Television, The Critic, The State, TV by the Decade, TV Commentary / Leave a comment

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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/ by / tags: Bhaji on the Beach, Confidentially Yours, Deep in the Heart, Devil's Due, Frontier Marshal, Hi Nellie!, Killers from Space, Little Buddah, Moulin Rouge, Movies, Movies by the Decade, Rhinoceros, Sixteen Fathoms Deep, Strait-Jacket, The Butterfly Effect, The Comedy of Terrors, The Eddie Cantor Story, The Lodger, Wild Oranges, Yukon Vengeance / Leave a comment

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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/ by / tags: Can We Shop starring Joan Rivers, Happy Days, I Didn't Do It, Jerks with Cameras, My Big Fat Obnoxious Finace, My Big Redneck Family, Rich Kids of Beverly Hills, Rolonda, Sheriff Callie's Wild West, TekWar, Television, The Brian Boitano Project, The George Carlin Show, The L Word, Thrift Hunters, TV by the Decade, TV Commentary, Whoopi's Littleburg / Leave a comment