Celebrating Gender Parity on Five Continents for our 5th Anniversary! The International Centre for Women Playwrights (ICWP) is thrilled to report that a record-breaking number of recipients will receive the 2016 50/50 Applause Awards, which recognizes theatres that produced 50% or more women playwrights in their 2015/16 season of shows. ICWPContinue Reading
by Chip Kaufmann – I have frequently written articles in this publication concerning England’s Hammer Films along with reviews and DVD picks of some of their movies. Now it is time to pay tribute to Hammer’s chief competitor in the 1960s and 1970s, Amicus Productions. The primary impetus behind thisContinue Reading
Beginning January 4, 2015, and continuing through March 1, 2015, Lex 18 hosts a weekly vintage banquet celebrating the fifth season of Downton Abbey. Fans of America’s favorite BBC series Downton Abbey are being invited to an intimate interactive vintage dinner banquet recreating the flavors, style and traditions of 1920sContinue Reading
Still Weird and Proud of It It’s lucky number 13 for the Asheville Fringe Arts Festival! This true Asheville oddity has been happening for 13 years, offering local and imported preforming artists the opportunity to create and showcase new, unique work. The festival features a variety of artists including actors,Continue Reading
by Chip Kaufmann When I refer to British director Terence Fisher as “the poor man’s Hitchcock,” I do not mean that in a disparaging way. I mean it as a compliment, for while Fisher made his movies pretty much the way Hitchcock did, he never had the kind of budgetsContinue Reading
Chip Kaufmann’s Pick: Horror of Dracula (1958) Of all the movies to be found in Terence Fisher’s output (see article this section), none is more highly regarded than Dracula (Horror of Dracula in America to distinguish it from Bela Lugosi’s Dracula which had just been reissued in 1958). Everything isContinue Reading
A Memoir by Signe Pike review by Marcianne Miller With language precise and economical, the title of Charleston author Signe Pike’s first book tells what to expect: Faery Tale: One Woman’s Search for Enchantment in a Modern World. The Who: a woman by herself. What: search for enchantment, specifically creaturesContinue Reading
