Review: Cirque de la Symphonie in Fort Worth
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Price: $27 – $79
More information: Visit the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra official website.
NOTE: While tickets were provided for review purposes, the opinions expressed in this article are wholly my own.
Photo credit: Courtesy of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra
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November 6th, 2010 | Tui Cameron | Read More | Comments: 1Filed under: cirque, live performance, orchestra, review
A Fox on the Fairway Scores a Hole in One
The newest hilarious romp, A Fox on the Fairway at Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia by Ken Ludwig (Lend Me a Tenor), is full of laughs from the first tee to the final hole.
The story, delivered in classic 1940s British farce style, pits Bingham, a golf club manager (Jeff McCarthy) who has lost the annual inter-club tournament against his arch-rival golf club for the past five years in a row. But this year things will change. He has a secret ringer, a newly joined member who’s close...
October 28th, 2010 | Jon Rochetti | Read More | Comments: 1Filed under: review, theater, Virginia
Shrek: The Musical Now Playing in Fair Park
... $29 – $133.50
More information: Visit the Dallas Summer Musicals official website.
NOTE: While tickets were provided to me for review purposes, the opinions expressed in this article are wholly my own.
Photo credit: Courtesy of Dallas Summer Musicals
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October 1st, 2010 | Tui Cameron | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: musical theater, review
Fairmont Luxury in Downtown Calgary
... and packages, visit the Fairmont Palliser Hotel website.
Fairmont provided complimentary accommodations to the author for the purpose of a review; the opinions expressed herein are solely those of the author.
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September 18th, 2010 | Jeanne Dupuis | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Calgary, hotel, review, top-feature
Restaurant Review: Matchbox Wood-Fired Oven Pizzas, DC
Just blocks from the Verizon Center and Gallery Place in Washington DC is the restaurant Matchbox, a “vintage pizza bistro” that specializes in hand tossed pizzas baked in an 800+ degree brick wood-fired oven.
A recent lunch at Matchbox allowed me to sample several of their pizzas. The 3-story building, a former Chinese grocery store, is just 15 feet wide, but fun and funky, incorporating lots of fabricated metal stairs and railings and exposed air conditioning vents. It’s got a high-tech,...
August 27th, 2010 | Jon Rochetti | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: dining, featuredarticle, pizza, restaurant, review
Review: Eating by the River at Cafetaria Mensagem
After visiting Feitoria Restaurant last January, I could hardly wait for the good weather to visit Cafetaria Mensagem. This is the second restaurant of the exquisite Altis Belém Hotel&Spa. As Feitoria, this too is under the guidance of Chef José Cordeiro and has a clear influence of the Hotel main motive – Discoveries.
The Chef has worked in many top restaurants, from London to Tokyo, and made it back to Portugal to receive a Michelin Star in 2004/2005 and again in 2005/2006 (while chef...
July 17th, 2010 | Alexandre Kühl Oliveira | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: featuredarticle, restaurant, review
Review: Beauty and the Beast in Dallas
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Price: $25 – $150
More information: Visit the AT&T Performing Arts Center website.
NOTE: While tickets were provided to me for review purposes, the opinions expressed in this article are wholly my own.
Photo credit: Joan Marcus, courtesy of the AT&T Performing Arts Center
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July 14th, 2010 | Tui Cameron | Read More | Comments: 1Filed under: featuredarticle, musical theater, review
Review: Dreamgirls Will Make You Feel All Right
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More information: Visit the Dallas Summer Musicals official website.
NOTE: Tickets were provided to me by the Dallas Summer Musicals for review purposes, but the opinions expressed in this article are wholly my own.
Photo credit: Joan Marcus, courtesy of Dallas Summer Musicals
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July 3rd, 2010 | Tui Cameron | Read More | Comments: 1Filed under: musical theater, review
Review: It’s a bird…It’s a plane…It’s Superman!
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More information: Visit the Dallas Theater Center official website.
NOTE: Tickets were provided to me by the Dallas Theater Center for review purposes, but the opinions expressed are wholly my own.
Photo credit: Photos by Brandon Thibodeaux, courtesy of the Dallas Theater Center
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June 30th, 2010 | Tui Cameron | Read More | Comments: 2Filed under: featuredarticle, review, theater
Best of the Backpackers at Sydney Harbour YHA
... clean, comfortable, and convenient and the Sydney Harbour YHA delivers on all scores.
Note: I received a complimentary stay for the purposes of this review.
Location: Sydney Harbour YHA
Address: 110 Cumberland Street, The Rocks
Public transport: Catch a train to Wynyard or Circular Quay station. This .pdf has great step-by-step instructions and maps for getting there from these stations
Parking: There is limited paid parking nearby. Consult this .pdf for full instructions
Cost: Shared rooms start...
April 6th, 2010 | Lauren Katulka | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: featuredarticle, hostels, review
Sydney Parkside Stay at Oaks Hyde Park Plaza
On Thursday night my husband I treated ourselves again to a night in the city before retiring to the Oaks Hyde Park Plaza.
The location was perfect, a short walk from The Metro Theatre where we took in a show, and Museum train station where I arrived. When you plan on leaving the car at home, that close proximity to public transport is a real plus. I’m sure if we’d paid for one of the fancy rooms we’d have enjoyed some gorgeous views of the park too, but it wasn’t too be this time.
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November 7th, 2009 | Lauren Katulka | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: hotels, review
Edinburgh Festival 2009 – Post Mortem
Yes, ladies and gentlemen – the Edinburgh Guide’s 2009 Festival Post Mortem has finally arrived. There were so many great shows this year, I had to take a step back and reflect before choosing this year’s winners. (Here’s the 2008 list, if you’re curious.)
And without further ado….
Best Standup Comedy: Socially Retarded. I still keep laughing about some of the way-too-inappropriate jokes, especially the men’s toilet scene. Great job guys. Intimate...
September 13th, 2009 | Andy Hayes | Read More | Comments: 1Filed under: Edinburgh, Events, festival, fringe, review
Edinburgh Festival Review – Barbershopera II
They’re back with their quarter antics for another year on the Fringe…
This year’s story is a fun one; two brothers of the ruling families in a small Spanish town fight over taking over their dead father’s barber shop empire. To solve the problem? A scissor cut-off! In hilarious, cheeky, outrageous fashion this fouresome tell us the story. The lyrics are just brilliant and a simple stage with few props makes the singers’ fab voices the stars of the show.
There’s...
August 31st, 2009 | Andy Hayes | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Events, festival, fringe, review
Edinburgh Festival Review – Ernest and the Pale Moon
A near-perfect Hitchcock interpretation comes to the Fringe stage…
Ernest sits at his window, in the dark, watching over the apartment block across the street. The pale light of a full moon is overhead. A blonde-haired woman looks out of her window beyond her curtains, as dones a man still in pain from a war injury. What seems like a few random citizens just enjoying the air of the night turns into a brilliantly-presented story with a very very dark ending. There’s even a last...
August 31st, 2009 | Andy Hayes | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: festival, fringe, review
Edinburgh Festival Review – Julian Claray
Julian Claray, yes, is still touring and telling jokes….
Many of you will know Claray from his on-screen antics and at 50 years old, he’s still out touring and sharing his unusual perspective on the world. While his knack for making taboo topics appropriate for on-stange banter, I couldn’t but feel his “Lord of the Minge” skit a little flat and rehearsed.
The audience was definitely in laughs, sometimes even at points unintended, but in many points it was his on-stage...
August 31st, 2009 | Andy Hayes | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Events, festival, fringe, review
Edinburgh Festival Review – The Overcoat
Another powerful Fringe visual sensation…
The Overcoat reminded me of some of my favourite old French films: gorgeous, sultry, sexy, a visual senstation, but sometimes a little confusing. The plot of this stage drama is straightforward enough: the tribulations of a simple office clerk who yearns for a mystical overcoat which will help him get into the good graces of another woman from his office. Unfortunately, at times rests on stage dialogue and events that are pretty difficult to follow...
August 24th, 2009 | Andy Hayes | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Events, festival, fringe, review
Edinburgh Festival Review – Hanna Gadsby – Kiss Me Quick I’m Full of Jubes
Live all the way from Tasmania is Australia’s favourite Tasmanian….
Hanna Gadsby’s show Kiss Me Quick I’m Full of Jubes is a show about her mother. The show’s title is one of mum’s various codeword phrases that you’d need a specialised dictionary to decipher. (You’ll have to see the show to find out what Kiss Me Quick… means – you didn’t think I would ruin it for you, did you?)
Gadsby takes us through her childhood years, waxing...
August 23rd, 2009 | Andy Hayes | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Events, festival, fringe, review
Edinburgh Festival Review – Bloodbath The Musical
There’s a killer on the loose in Nixonville High School. Who will (s)he kill next?
Let me start out by saying Bloodbath the Musical wasn’t exactly what I was expecting. I kind of expected a cheesy, camp, flashy gore horror set to song. The reality was that Bloodbath was a bit more musical and a little less blood (only two deaths, if you’re curious). The cast is a lineup of powerhouse singers, all of whom relate in one way or another to the series of events happening at...
August 22nd, 2009 | Andy Hayes | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Events, festival, fringe, review
Edinburgh Festival Review – Wolfboy
Is he a man, a wolf… or just a boy?
With ominous, thumping music the story of the Wolfboy begins…in a psychiatric hospital. Two boys in the hospital each have their own sick, sad story to tell. One is a boy – no, a wolf – being chased by the memories of a girl named Annie and a past as a hustler. The other is dealing with his attempted suicide and an abusive brother trying to convince him to leave the hospital. The boys befriend each other and try to build a relationship...
August 21st, 2009 | Andy Hayes | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Events, festival, fringe, review
Edinburgh Festival Review – Forgotten Things
Sometimes things aren’t as they seem… or as you remember…
Forgotten Things is a wild, whimsical and very dark tale of an arguing couple who has both a troublesome son and a senile gran all under the same roof. The gran doesn’t seem to be able to take care of her self (and the family is barely managing to do so), and the parents find the son with a line of rope. At their wits end, the couple visit a larger-than-life doctor to help sort out their woes. In a flourish of...
August 21st, 2009 | Andy Hayes | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: festival, fringe, review
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