As superheroes dominate big screens around the world, a bawdy bunch of bionic thespians have taken the stage over at the Ramrod Center for the Performing Arts! Meet THE EBONIC WOMAN a new musical comic book farce loaded with social commentary and satiric sass from Ryan Landry and his unstoppable GOLD DUST ORPHANS. This is [...]
Here are four recommendations, the best, the bawdiest, most delightful, and thoroughly musical offerings onstage now: beginning with The Huntington's MAN IN THE RING which is simply a masterpiece and THE BEST PRODUCTION ONSTAGE NOW. This is a profoundly moving, complex, brilliantly performed and conceived bio-drama about fighter Emile Griffiths here played by two actors, [...]
I've been running all over town to catch what's onstage and there's a stockpile of fantastic shows waiting to be seen--beginning with what I just saw at the Ramrod Center for The Performing Arts! I nearly laughed myself into insanity at what Ryan Landry and his GOLD DUST ORPHANS have rustled up: BROKELAHOMO! It's "Brokeback [...]
Sick of all the saccharine celebrating of the holiday season? Then hightail it over to Machine (aka The Ramrod Center for the Performing Arts) to see IT'S A HORRIBLE LIFE! Ryan Landry and The Gold Dust Orphans have once again twisted a comely classic to their delightfully demented and off colorful ends! And it's all in the [...]
Photo courtesy Michael von Redlich Listen up beautiful people-- The Gold Dust Orphans are back with a bang and this time they have some pretty big shoulders to fill. Joan Crawford did it in 1945 and Varla Jean Merman (Jeffrey Roberson) is doing it onstage right now at Machine: MILDRED FIERCE! To quote [...]
I have never laughed so long and so hard in my life. I may never need abdominal exercises again: I just saw the most obscenely funny show in town-- MARY POPPERS now playing at MACHINE-- otherwise known as The Ramrod Center for the Performing Arts. It's the latest Ryan Landry and the Gold Dust Orphans [...]
