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...inhabitants of heaven and hell will struggle for their afterlives when the curtain opens on the Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ 155th production, To Heaven Have Not, the theater company announced this week...
...agree as I settled back in my canvas chair, gin and tonic in one hand, up to my ankles in black volcanic sand, peeping through a curtain of banyan leaves at the gentle splendor of sunset. This was Sea World Club, Maumere's premier dive resort: an unpretentious place with neat thatch-roofed bungalows, where sarong-wrapped staff, flashing wide smiles, shuffle along paths paved with blue pebbles...
...would be presumptuous to tell someone touched by a miracle that she shouldn't count on God again. (And indeed, a recent biopsy showed no cervical cancer.) But Genelle may be using her faith as a curtain, one she can draw across a roomful of unfinished business. "I think she hasn't dealt with the tragedy, the trauma she went through," says her cousin Gail. "She wants to block...
...back and forth between depressions and highs in cycles that can stretch over months. During the depressive phase, they experience hopelessness, loss of interest in work and family, and loss of libido--the same symptoms as in major (or unipolar) depression, with which bipolar is often confused. The depressive curtain can descend with no apparent cause or can be triggered by a traumatic event such as an accident, illness or the loss...
...quieter new musical hit in London is an engaging little show called Taboo, which recaps the rise and drug-addled fall of Boy George, the androgynous former lead singer of the band Culture Club. The surprise is that, aside from three old favorites (with Karma Chameleon as the obligatory curtain-call rouser), the show has a new score, written by (former Boy) George O'Dowd himself. Helped by Christopher Renshaw's cabaret-style production and a dead-on performance as George by Euan Morton, O'Dowd's supple melodies and touching but tough lyrics seem to encapsulate the defiantly deviant...