thursday 19 Los Kung Fu Monkeys SKA-PUNK—The Los Angeles-based ska punk sextet by way of Canada and Mexico formed in ’97. They have shared stages with the Dropkick Murphys, The Misfits, and Moby. After paying $30 to record their EP 17 years ago, Los Kung Fu Monkeys have been playing sold out shows and recording […]
Theatre
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Slings & (Bloody) Arrows
William Shakespeare: Zombie killer
I’m sure if Shakespeare lived in modern times, he would have fully embraced the zombie genre with both doublet-ensconced arms. Imagine the drama that would have erupted in A Midsummer Night’s Dream if Bottom and Puck had to team up to take out some undead a-holes, or if Macbeth had to worry about zombies AND […]
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Picks 10/21-10/28
thursday 22 Alison Wright PRESENTATION—National Geographic Traveler of the Year is visiting to share her photos and insight on the work women are doing in developing countries. After surviving a deadly bus accident and undergoing 30 surgeries, the photojournalist traveled back to the village three years later to deliver medical equipment to the doctors who […]
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The Black Box of Dead, Evil Musicals
A Thrilling October with CTC and 2nd Street
Cascades Theatrical Company and 2nd Street Theater are both trying something interesting over the next few weeks. Both theaters are trying something familiar in different and unexpected ways with CTC starting up this season’s first Black Box production and 2nd Street launching its fifth iteration of Evil Dead: The Musical. In each case, the experiment […]
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Be Their Guest
Beauty and the Beast opens at Summit Auditorium
Thoroughly Modern Productions is not screwing around. Each successive production I have seen from David DaCosta and company has increased in scale and scope ten-fold. Last year’s The Wizard of Oz featured so many moving parts, from dancing monkey children to melting witches, it seemed like DaCosta had reached a ceiling on what could be […]