Kinsey Sicks

Damsels In Dis Dress

George Heymont | Posted 10.07.2011

Read More: Film, Kinsey Sicks, Varla Jean and the Mushroomheads, Ben Schatz, Varla Jean Merman, Billy Elliot the Musical, Miss Rheingold, Pat Suzuki, Seth Rudetsky, Jeff Manabat, Irwin Keller, Spencer Brown, Amy Winehouse, Jeffrey Roberson, Arts News
George Heymont

The other night, as I entered San Francisco's Orpheum Theatre for a performance of Billy Elliot the Musical, I couldn't help noticing an impressively ...

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'They Don't Make Movies About Boring People:' Two New Documentaries Tackle AIDS, Government

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Title IX, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, Julian Shaw, Glass Ceiling, Aids Education, Patsy Takemoto, Desmond Tutu, P.W. Botha, Nelson Mandela, Golda Meir, Nancy Pelosi, Malcolm X, Evita Bezuidenhout, Richard Gephardt, Bella Abzug, Pieter-Dirk Yus, Dame Edna, Thabo Mbeki, Hiv, Mahatma Gandhi, Roy Cohn, Harvey Milk, Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority, George Carlin, Kinsey Sicks, Martin Luther King, Sarah Palin, Franklin Odo, Kimberlee Bassford, Patsy Mink, Film, Arts News
George Heymont

Imagine someone with the bluntness of the George Carlin, the wardrobe of the Kinsey Sicks, and the following of Dame Edna and you'll get an idea of what kind of social catalyst Pieter-Dirk Uys became for South Africans.

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Twelve Months Til Christmas

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lee Remick, I Do! I Do!, Oy Vey in a Manger, Handel, Daniel Massey, Jon Cryer, Carol Lawrence, Kelsey Venter, Nutcracker, Black Nativity, In the Good Old Summertime, Rock Hudson, Barbara Baxley, David Sedaris, Jerry Bock, Messiah, Nathaniel Frey, Hansel Und Gretel, Jason Zinoman, Hans Christian Andersen, Mary Martin, Daddy Long Legs, The Fantasticks, QMR Records, Valerie Vigoda, Ryan Drummond, Gordon MacRae, Radio City Music Hall, Jack Cassidy, The Little Match Girl, Jean Webster, Wicked, Stephen Schwartz, Irving Berlin?S White Christmas, A Christmas Carol, Toy Story: The Musical, Paul Gordon, Rockettes, Barbara Cook, Robert Adelman Hancock, Jan De Hartog, Gower Champion, Hal Linden, 110 in the Shade, Karen Ziemba, Sleeping Beauty Wakes, Christmas Revels, My Cup Runneth Over, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Carol Burnett, David Garrison, Robert Preston, The Shop Around the Corner, The Santaland Diaries, Brendan Milburn, Striking 12, Harold Prince, Brittany Ogle, Ernest Shackleton Loves Me, Sheldon Harnick, Ed Ames, Long Story Short, Macon Little Theatre, Center Rep, Megan McGinnis, Kinsey Sicks, Rubicon Theatre Company, John Caird, She Loves Me, You?Ve Got Mail, The Fourposter, Theatreworks, Electrofulguration, Humperdinck, Groovelily, Arts News
George Heymont

For most people, the holiday season is over and done with. Christmas decorations have been put back into storage and the tree has been disposed of. But for arts entrepreneurs the situation is quite different.

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The Kinsey Sicks Descend on Washington (VIDEOS)

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oy Vey in a Manger, Ben Schatz, James Inhofe, George W. Bush, War on Christmas, Jeff Manabat, Dragapella, Irwin Keller, The Sound of Music, David Wojnarowicz, Kinsey Sicks, A Cappella, Barbershop Quartet, Swingle Singers, Mel Gibson, Danny Boy, Yale Whiffenpoofs, Laura Schlessinger, Lady GaGa, Doo-Wop, Frameline, Edelweiss, Tsa, Arts News
George Heymont

"A cappella" singing has been around for several hundred years. What started in the late 15th century as a form of religious expression (without the u...

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