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DALLAS — “Three songs in, and Texas hasn’t shut us down yet!”
The audience howled and clapped and hooted with delight at the ad-lib by David Lugo, playing the pricelessly smarmy Narrator in “The Rocky Horror Show,” a 50-year-old musical that suddenly has the knickers of Texas politicians in a twist. See, “Rocky Horror” features — yes, horrors! — male actors in wigs and sparkly eye shadow and body-hugging female garb (and looking really good doing it). Read More...
Luke Littler has made history after winning the Bahrain Masters by defeating three-time world champion Michael van Gerwen to claim his first PDC title at his first effort.
The 16-year-old capped his World Series debut with his first professional men’s title and continues his rise after his epic run to the final at the World Darts Championship.
Littler showed no signs that his performance at Ally Pally was a one-off, on an evening where he produced a set of stunning performances to put the blow of his defeat to Luke Humphries at the start of January behind him. Read More...
Murray Schisgal, a playwright and screenwriter who brought his off-kilter brand of black comedy to Broadway with the screwball hit “Luv,” and who later forged a partnership with actor Dustin Hoffman that led him to co-write the gender-bending blockbuster “Tootsie,” died Oct. 1 at a nursing home in Port Chester, N.Y. He was 93.
His son, Zach Schisgal, confirmed the death but did not give a precise cause.
Whether in plays, movies or a novel involving a hunchbacked musician, Mr. Read More...