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“Dear Edwina Jr.” is a show about kids putting on a show, so it’s only fitting that the kids are calling all the shots. The Zina Goldrich/Marcy Heisler musical, about a 13-year-old advice columnist who dishes out wisdom with the help of her friends and a little song and dance, offers important lessons about everything
“Dear Edwina Jr.” is a show about kids putting on a show, so it’s only fitting that the kids are calling all the shots. The Zina Goldrich/Marcy Heisler musical, about a 13-yearold advice columnist who dishes out wisdom with the help of her friends and a little song and dance, offers important lessons about everything
Print I’d checked the address over and over again, so I knew I was in the right place: Dugan’s Backyard Playhouse. It didn’t look like a theater, but I hadn’t expected it to. I knew Tom Dugan was doing his one-person show “The Ghosts of Mary Lincoln” on a makeshift outdoor stage at his house, on this quiet Woodland Hills cul-de-sac. I had RSVP’d. It would be not be creepy of me to skulk across his lawn and slip through the open back gate at nightfall. Even so, I felt transgressive. After staying home for more than a year, I had the sense that I was sneaking into a speakeasy or i...
Shiva Baby Writer-director Emma Seligman's debut film takes on the anxiety and awkwardness involved in Jewish family gatherings. Danielle (Rachel Sennott) rushes to meet her parents and various relatives at a family shiva. While being interrogated about her future (or lack thereof), she runs into her successful ex-girlfriend, Maya. Also at the gathering is Danielle's sugardaddy, his accomplished wife and their new baby. The comedy-drama will be out on VOD and in select theaters on Friday, April 2. Explore more than 50 acres of flowers and blooms at the Flower Fields in Carlsbad, a working far...