Howard Korder’s play “Episode 26” is a spoof of the serialized sci-fi tales that used to run with the Saturday matinees in movie theaters in the 1940s and ‘50s. When Todd Dicken first read the play in the ‘90s, he had a different idea. “It's written to be an actual play with ...
Assorted ramblings from the world of entertainment: • It’s Valentine’s Day weekend. Love is in the air, maybe nowhere more than Penguin City Brewing Company, which has a group wedding on tap for Friday. ‘Til Death Do Us Part will provide couples with an officiant (Hannah Ferguson, owner of Penguin City neighbor Dope Cider House), a wedding photographer (Brianna Isabel) and a beverage (champagne, non-alcoholic or a Penguin City brew) to toast their nuptials. Penguin City co-owner Aspasia Lyras said she heard about similar events in other cities, and it’s something she ...
Art ARTS & EDUCATION AT THE HOYT, 124 E. Leasure Ave., New Castle, Pa.: “My Abandoned Heart: Photography by Diane Beatty,” “Portals to the Soul: Photography by Dina Liguore” and “Felicific Calculus: Photography by Eric Kunsman,” all through March 12 with meet-the-artists event ...
Staff report Auditions are scheduled in March for Youngstown Playhouse’s main stage production of “Urinetown: the Musical.” Director Nate Beagle is seeking strong comedic actors, singers and dancers ages 18 and older. Experience in improvisation, stand-up comedy, drag performance, performance art, playing a musical instrument or any special performance skills are a plus but not required. “Urinetown” is set in a not-so-distant future when private bathrooms have been outlawed because of a 20-year drought. In order to conserve water, citizens must do their private business ...
LOS ANGELES — In his seminal 1981 book “Simulacra and Simulation,” cultural theorist Jean Baudrillard argued that Disneyland is emblematic of reality’s collapse into perpetual imitation. “Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real, whereas all of Los Angeles and the America that surrounds it are no longer real,” he writes. On their seventh album, the LA county pop-punk stalwarts Joyce Manor remind listeners why the band’s origin lore, which involves day-drinking Four Lokos at Disneyland in 2008, is so apt. In the nearly two ...
Youngstown State University will mix some jazz with some “Jazz” to celebrate Ohio-born author Toni Morrison. A community reading of Morrison’s 1992 novel “Jazz” is planned on campus on Wednesday, which would have been her 95th birthday. The reading will run 9 to 11:30 a.m. and 2 ...
