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Mouthing Off: A Hecuba Time with Matthew Saxe

Interview
Recorded on April 16, 2024 Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify Actor Matthew Saxe joins the pod to talk about Pangea’s Hecuba, by Marina Carr, at the Southern Theater through April 21st 2024. Mouthing Off: A Hecuba Time with Matthew Saxe pangeaworldtheater.org facebook.com/badmouthtc instagram.com/badmouthtc
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Creative Discipline with Director DANIEL BOISROND

Interview
My creative discipline series continues with Daniel Boisrond. He is a New York based director whose work can be seen at The National Black Theatre this season. In our interview we discuss storytelling that broadens perspectives, using technology to push boundaries in the theater, and the importance of
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Mouthing Off: The North Star Big Band: Step, Step, Rock Step

Interview
Recorded on April 8, 2024 Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify Dean Cummings, Gary Denbow, and Dan Peterson of the North Star Big Band join the pod to talk swing, polka, and more. The North Star Big Band: Step, Step, Rock Step northstarbigband.com facebook.com/badmouthtc instagram.com/badmouthtc twitter.com
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Apples in Winter Erases Theater and Creates a Reality at Gremlin Theatre

Review
Angela Timberman, her performance as Miriam is like a masterclass in acting. A one handed play requires the very best performer to hold an audience’s attention for 90 minutes on their own. Gremlin Theatre is apparently aware of this and thus cast Angela Timberman who not only keeps our attention but keeps us
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  • Where many roads meet

    Interview

    If you watch children’s television, you know him as Randy the Planner on The Choo Choo Bob Show. If...

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  • Next to inaccurate

    Review

    As a critic, I am in a terrible bind: the Yellow Tree Theatre has just staged a beautiful production of...

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  • History, repeating

    Review

    If your Facebook news feed is anything like mine, hashtags swarm the screen:

    #FreddieGray #JusticeForFreddieGray #BlackLivesMatter #Baltimore #BaltimoreUprising #BlackSpring #MNRiseUp...

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  • What do you know?

    Review
    There’s a moment early on in For the Loyal that made me fear I was about to watch a promising...
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  • Are you guilty?

    Review

    A few minutes into Crime and Punishment, a desperate young woman asked me to help her find her laundry...

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  • Unnerving, unsettling--go see it.

    Review

    When the lights dim, a man in a suit and hat starts whistling. Something about this familiar melody feels haunting...

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  • It's a lot of booze

    Review

    The Long Island Iced Tea -- Two Ways

    #1

    1/2 ounce white rum

    1/2 ounce white tequila

    1/2 ounce vodka...

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  • Down in the valley

    Review

    The name of the play – Pussy Valley – could evoke a fertile land of liberation, where women are free...

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