Review: 'Hadestown' is a gift from the gods
"Hadestown" gives you the world — for all it is and could be — only to rip it away, leaving you on your knees begging for more, even willing to sell your soul.
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"Hadestown" gives you the world — for all it is and could be — only to rip it away, leaving you on your knees begging for more, even willing to sell your soul.
"Tootsie," ASU Gammage’s fifth show of the 2021-2022 season that opened Tuesday, reeks of classic Broadway.
"The Band’s Visit" forces you to listen harder than any other show, to drink deeply of the joy and the loneliness baked throughout.
Picture yourself where you were nine years ago, all the way back to 2012. "The Avengers" was the biggest movie of the year, Gangnam Style took over YouTube, Barack Obama successfully gained a second term and everyone thought the world was about to come to a cataclysmic end.
Every seven or eight years, one gaming console generation ends and another begins with futuristic boxes filled with incomprehensible numbers and hardware along with a mountain of promises.
Dungeons and Dragons and podcasting may not sound like a great combination at first, but between playing the game and talking about it, the mix has become one of the most popular podcasting genres on the internet.
The first LEGO Star Wars video game was released in 2005 and began an empire of games that ruled over an entire generation’s collective childhoods. Since then, the LEGO games have expanded beyond aliens and spaceships, adapting other big series like Harry Potter, Indiana Jones and the DC and Marvel universes.
Video games tend to attract players looking for an escape from reality, searching for a feeling of community, adventure or control. And yet, the most popular game at the moment is centered on deceit and voting.
Halloween celebrations are associated with scary movies, off-putting television shows or even thrilling books. Unless you are a Broadway fanatic, musicals do not come to mind when looking for ways to spend the holiday.
Halloween is the one time of year when it’s OK to be scared — it's part of the fun. But in a year where every morning brings new horrors, many of the usual traditions have to be adjusted or outright canceled.
On March 15, I worked what I feared could be my last shift at the Phoenix Art Museum. The following day, the museum announced it would be shutting its doors for the next few months due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
For a lot of young people, a certain boy wizard named Harry Potter held a special place in their childhood and adolescence. For some, it made reading fun. And for others, it provided a community of fellow nerds.
On March 11, students received an email from President Michael Crow announcing all classes would move online following spring break, making the pandemic feel real and slamming the door on the old world.
In the spring, grocery stores were battlegrounds of pandemic compliance, sometimes literally.
James Baldwin posed a thought in “The Fire Next Time,” his 1963 book about race in American history and religion, of how one should grapple and reflect on their past, something Americans have done with their country over the past few months.
Unprecedented: never done or known before. This word has been used in every second sentence written or spoken in the last five months, and while it is true that most people alive have never experienced something like the COVID-19 pandemic, it does not quite fit the definition.
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