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57+ min ago (272+ words) Tessa Barrera, Houston Life Co-Host Houston, Texas " The holiday rom-com "Practically Married" is now streaming and it"s all Houston-made. The film officially premiered on Black Friday, November 28, and viewers can now watch it on Amazon, Fandango, and Cable TV. The story follows two sisters who are fed up with the modern dating world. Together, they decide they want to adopt children as co-parents. To test their theory, they take on babysitting duties for their young nephews during the holidays, not realizing the experience will change everything they thought they knew about love, family, and partnership. Real-life sisters Sara and Lisa Alavi lead the film, Sara stars as Samantha and also serves as Executive Producer and Script Writer, while Lisa plays Lucy. The project itself was inspired by genuine modern dating stories and the desire to create a relatable rom-com…...

2+ hour, 38+ min ago (209+ words) Lydia Lunch is the queen of no wave, a spot-on cultural critic, and an inspiration to generations of margin-walkers. The post Lydia Lunch and JT Habersaat make for one hell of a night of spoken-word at Will's Pub appeared first on Orlando Weekly. Lydia Lunch is well-known for many reasons " she's the queen of no wave, the prophet of our slow apocalypse, an accomplished poet and author (up to and including a cookbook!), an incisive podcaster, a spot-on cultural critic and an inspiration to several generations of margin-walkers. What we'd like to point out, though, is her unerring instincts in picking artists to join her on her spoken word tours: Exene Cervenka, Jerry Stahl, Joseph Keckler (all of whom gigged in Florida with her). And now, add JT Habersaat to the list. The Austin-based "godfather of punk comedy" makes for…...

5+ hour, 40+ min ago (358+ words) Carrie Cracknell, Nina Raine and Belarus Free Theatre's Natalia Kaliada and Nicolai Khalezin share memories of working with the playwright and "guardian angel' Natalia Kaliada and Nicolai Khalezin, co-founding artistic directors of Belarus Free Theatre In 2005, we wrote to Tom Stoppard from inside the tightening grip of what has been described as the last dictatorship in Europe. We were building a theatre that wasn't meant to exist in Belarus. Tom replied almost instantly: "You can count on my support. But what else can I do for you?" Our request was both audacious and simple: we asked him to come to Belarus. Tom became Belarus Free Theatre's lifelong patron and our mentor. He told us, with a directness that always cut through the noise, that if we wanted to influence politics, we had to write great plays and stage great productions,…...

6+ hour, 18+ min ago (556+ words) By PJ Grisar December 3, 2025 Something unexpected arrives in the middle of Tom Stoppard's magisterial Holocaust drama Leopoldstadt: a bedroom farce. "Stoppard uses content and structure to point to a playwright whom many in the audience will not know, and even this unknowing is important," Shaw wrote. "Stoppard's subject, after all, is forgetting." In his heyday, from around 1900 to 1910, Schnitzler was perhaps the most famous dramatist in the German-speaking world, said Max Haberich, author of a 2021 biography of Schnitzler. "His plays were popular," said Haberich. "Each caused a scandal, but it was more because it went against the contemporary mores of the 19th century, and he just wrote about sex a bit too much for the times." One of Schnitzler's two novels, Der Weg ins Freie, was devoted to the so-called Jewish question, wondering about where this diasporic people belonged in society....

7+ hour, 33+ min ago (64+ words) Sarah Kempa's Daily Cartoon riffs on Christmas decorations. More Humor and Cartoons Starter packs for things you will start but never finish. I'm the woman who ruined the workplace. My cat is Gen Z. I, a performatively feminist male, will be touring internationally. Lesser-known celebrity-owned alcohol brands. Enter the Cartoon Caption Contest for a chance to appear in the magazine....

11+ hour, 40+ min ago (654+ words) The great playwright discovered his Jewishness late in life " and the impact was huge To describe being Jewish on both sides of one's family as "the full catastrophe, one needs to be Jewish. This is one of the funniest lines in Tom Stoppard's final, ultimately tragic play Leopoldstadt. It is a line that a non-Jew would not be able to say or write because they would simply not see the funny side of having thousands of years of persecution inherited like a compulsory heirloom. So if it is ever necessary to answer the question: How Jewish was Tom Stoppard, who died last weekend aged 88? That line provides a clear answer. Very. Up until then he had known that his father Eugen Straussler, a doctor who worked for a manufacturer and was killed during a bombing raid during the war, was…...

12+ hour, 11+ min ago (325+ words) Pitching its inviting blue tent over a stretch of Lincoln Center Plaza each holiday season, this is a circus with tricksy dogs rather than elephants and plenty of acrobats and derring-do. It's such family-friendly entertainment that a child under age 2 seated in the lap of a ticket holder doesn't need a ticket. (Through Jan. 4, Damrosch Park) Jinkx Monsoon, familiar most recently to Broadway audiences for playing the title character in Cole Escola's "Oh, Mary!," makes an annual habit of teaming up with her close pal and fellow "RuPaul's Drag Race" alum BenDeLaCreme for a new version of this singing, dancing, seasonal comedy, which they write afresh each year. (Dec. 4, Kings Theater) The Ghost of Christmas Future comes into play in this new show from Justin Vivian Bond, the rare MacArthur Fellow who is also a cabaret artist. "I've always thought…...

13+ hour, 6+ min ago (309+ words) "I never want to scare people. I just want to be with you." Fandor has debuted the official US trailer for one of the year's best indie discoveries from around the world - a Thai film called A Useful Ghost, marking the feature directorial debut of talented filmmaker Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke. This first premiered at the Must See US Trailer for 'A Useful Ghost' Thai Vacuum Ghost Comedy "I never want to scare people. I just want to be with you." Fandor has debuted the official US trailer for one of the year's best indie discoveries from around the world - a Thai film called A Useful Ghost, marking the feature directorial debut of talented filmmaker Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke. This first premiered at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival where it won the top prize in the Critics Week sidebar, earning rave reviews from critics everywhere....

16+ hour, 13+ min ago (1171+ words) A baby and his family dog sit across from each other in a podcast studio. "Welcome to the talking baby podcast," says the infant, wearing headphones and sounding like a deep-voiced radio broadcaster. "On today's episode, we'll be talking to the weird-looking person who lives at my house." So begins a series of humorous interactions between two characters animated by artificial intelligence that's attracted millions of views on social media. They're a nod to the 1989 movie "Look Who's Talking" but produced in a matter of hours and without a multimillion-dollar Hollywood budget. AI helped do all of that, but it didn't craft the punch lines. It's a relief to comedian Jon Lajoie, who made the videos, that AI chatbots just aren't "inherently funny." "It can't write comedy," said Lajoie. "It can't do any of that." For now, at least, they…...

17+ hour, 47+ min ago (42+ words) As a new way to celebrate with her friends, the Emmy-nominated star hosted a "Shrek"-themed costume party and more. Leslie Caudill Turner, Turner's wife of 25 years, suddenly scrubbed her online ... Community Theatre of Terre Haute Presents a Holiday Classic...