Feed: Life On the Wicked Stage: Act 2 - AggScore: 59.8

A Little Faith, a Little Luck, and a Lotta Love: Smoke on the Mountain Debuts

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Well, here we go. Another opening and another show at Wayside Theatre. Like all things worthwhile there are always challenges to be met along the way and even though it is a few hours before curtain, I think I can...

Thanks to All for the Merry Christmas at Wayside Theatre with Glory Bea!

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Today we don the final performance of Glory Bea! A Shenandoah Christmas Story at Wayside Theatre. It's Christmas Eve. There's no place I'd rather be than here today. Every year with our annual Christmas show I tell the cast that...

Playwright and Political Dissident Turned Leader Vaclav Havel Dies

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R.I.P. Vaclav Havel. It's not often in the history of the world where the interesection of the arts and politics collide in a profound way that saw Vaclav Havel move from the stage of one to the stage of the...

Words That Should Be Banned for Overuse

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Each year the folks at Lake Superior State University publish one of my favorite lists. This list contains words or phrases that they believe should be banned because they are overused or just, well, they just shouldn't be used period....

The 7th Annual Life on the Wicked Stage Ink Blot Awards

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Like everything else in my life in this insane year this post is a day late and a dollar short. The seventh anniversary of this blog was yesterday, December 3. But things in my life kept me from putting the...

Reality Done Gone Bye-Bye: Trump to Moderate Republican Debate

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If there was a shark that was still circling the wading pool after all the splashing we've been through so far in this political season we would now have jumped it. It's been apparent for some time now that what...

Glory Bea! Has a Magical Opening Night to Kick Off the Holidays

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Whew! This weekend we debuted a World Premiere Christmas musical by Rich Follett and Larry Dahlke, entitled Glory Bea! A Sheandoah Christmas Story. We had two previews, made a bunch of changes in this new show and offered it as...

Glory Bea! Gets Ready to Light Up Your Holidays

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We're working like frantic elves to get the World Premiere of Glory Bea! A Shenandoah Christmas Story ready for this weekend. We'll all try to fight the traditional Thanksgiving Day coma today when we come back for two dress rehearsals....

Be Thankful and Have a Happy Thanksgiving

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I hope you and yours have a warm, safe, and yummy Thanksgiving. I also hope you take a moment to be thankful for all the blessings bestowed upon you and us all.

Stuck on Repeat in a Moment In Time

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I suppose we've exhausted the clichéness of the cliché that George Santayana is credited with, "those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it." All you need do is look around, if you have the courage to fix...

Tay Zonday is Back to Explain the Economy

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Remember Tay Zonday? He became a YouTube sensation with Chocolate Rain awhile back. Well, he's back again with a new video and song called Mama Economy that purports to explain the economy. He does as good a job as anybody...

Take the Pepsi Challenge and Help Young Playwrights at Wayside Theatre

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This weekend we debut a new play, Mary Shelly: A Spark of Being. It's a really exciting new piece. What makes it even more exciting is that it was written by a young team of playwrights from Wayside Theatre's educational...

Wayside Theatre Featured in Northern Va Daily's The Haunted Valley Mobile Apps

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Given that this is the day after Halloween, I wish I'd known of this sooner, but better late than ever. One of our two local papers is making a real push to reinvent itself for the digital age and one...

Early Snow Brings Broken Trees

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Today we got a highly uncharacteristic early snowfall for our region. It came duriung a weekend where we've still got plenty of trees that haven't seen their leaves change color yet. But those hanging leaves combined with a very heavy...

Apples and Oranges? Apple's Success in the Middle of Occupy Wall Street

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It looks like the Occupy Wall Street movement is finding more than its legs as it continues not only to spread and grow, but to garner the typical denunciations and dismissals from those who don't get what all the fuss...