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Director Miles Doleac and co-writer/star Lindsay Anne Williams spoke to Bleeding Cool on the 80s bands that inspired the musical Open.

We’ve got plays, musical, art exhibits and nightlife fun that are outta this world, well, actually possibly in your neighborhood, in this week’s Going Out.

As conceived by writer John Cameron Mitchell and composer/lyricist Stephen Trask back in 1997, "Hedwig"— now being presented by Berkeley’s Shotgun Players — is intended to feel like a late night in a dive bar, not an evening at the theater.

Remembering Sinéad—a talent-packed tribute at City Winery New York City—had a tough mission. Not just because remembering Sinéad O’Connor means reliving the deep pain and betrayal inflicted upon her by everyone from her mother to the music industry to so-called religious leaders or because her death in July still feels too fresh, but because who could ever really measure up to that standard: the dynamic range of her once-in-a-generation voice, her prescient lyrics and the potent blend of vulnerability and don’t-give-a-fuck-ness that made her too good for this world?

From YouTube sensation to actor, pop idol and style-setter, the 28-year-old is redefining what it means to be a creative artist.