What memories come to mind when you think of high school? Is it cramming for exams under pressure to raise your GPA? Catching the pass in a big game, a stadium of fans cheering you on? Hiding in the bathroom from someone ready to pound your face in? You probably have many memories of high […]
The scraping of the violin bow across the saw’s edge creates a mournful wail as the puppeteers float a hat, trousers, and bloodstained shirt into place. It is the ghost of Oren, Elektra’s brother, come to demand that she take up his knife and bring frontier justice to their murderess mother Nessie. The girl in […]
It’s a lively night in Hollywood. People laugh, drink, and sing along with the musical that’s happening all around my table. As we raise our faux lighters that glow instead of ignite, the actors stream directly past me, belting some of the most classic pop-rock of all time. It may be 2020 on the streets […]
The cabaret singer finishes her song – and that’s my cue. I slip away from the rest of the customers in the bar, sneaking carefully through a door into an office covered with maps and codes. Standing before me is my new boss. “I’ve got new information on the enemy,” I say to him. He […]
The following article was co-written with Taylor Winters. cages A narrow alleyway awaits. Crooked little buildings all huddled together, a little too close – almost as if they are trying to get far away from something. I begin walking down the brick pathway and find an odd hole with words scratched next to it: […]
The neon green toxic waste bubbles and burps in the vat, nerdy Melvin lost beneath the surface. Melvin’s attackers peer over the rim of the vat, making sure he’s no longer a threat. Satisfied, they turn their attentions elsewhere until a monstrous roar stops them in their tracks. One deformed hand after another emerges from […]
A paper boat floats down the petite gutter river; a little boy chasing from behind. The boat – the S.S. Georgie – picks up speed and sails down the sewer drain, far out of the little boy’s reach. Luckily for him, the sewer is not empty, but home to a friendly clown named Pennywise, who […]
Her skirt is a white river, flowing down the staircase. The loose fabric tangles beneath her, and the woman screams as she tumbles into the wooden step. Scrambling to her feet, she reaches the top, and tries doorway after doorway – one locked, one a kill chamber, one leading to a dead end – and […]
Nearly 7 feet tall with a green-tinged face, The Creature stomps forward to the front of the stage. He glares at the audience as his creator, Frederick Frankenstein, whips off The Creature’s medical gown and reveals that underneath is a dashing tuxedo. As Irving Berlin’s “Puttin’ on the Ritz” begins, The Creature’s horrible-looking face transforms […]
Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years takes a simple premise – a love story – and disarticulates it, putting the protagonists at opposing ends of their own tale. The acclaimed musical has been performed since 2001; it’s a heartbreaking tribute to the breakdown of a modern relationship, detailed through a unique reverse-narrative style. Though the […]
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