The very first show of "Sweeney Todd" I ever saw was the original Sondheim 1979 production that I found on YouTube. It was also the first theatre show I had ever seen from start to finish, so I wasn't...
"I Gelosi," or "The Jealous Ones," is a play set in the tradition of commedia dell'arte, or the Italian art of comedy, that explores the lives of the real-life acting troupe the Gelosi. They lived in the...
When I was a kid, things like hospital bills, rent and mortgages were all vague and nebulous concepts to me. The most pressing matter to me was when the next Zelda game would be coming out. However, over...
Written in 1994 by Tony Kushner, "A Bright Room Called Day" takes place in 1933 Berlin on the very heel of the Nazis' rise to power. It follows the life of film actress Agnes Eggling, who struggles with...
There isn’t a lot of representation out there for people of color. Everything, from television, movies, books, video games, magazines, pop culture, etc., is dominated mainly by white people, and it has...
The Pure Products Reading & Lecture Series is back. This Thursday, the Department of English and Creative Writing Program will host its popular Pure Products Reading & Lecture Series, the first of the...
The #metoo movement set off a wave of sexual assault allegations that highlighted the many ways that Hollywood is still very much a men's club. Many of these men, such as Louis C.K and Aziz Ansari come...
Few up-and-coming musicians have garnered as much attention and popularity as rising country music star Cole Swindell. The alternative country singer-songwriter will be perform as part of his "Down Home...
The holidays are here again, and with them comes the Red Mountain Theatre Company’s 2017 Holiday Spectacular. From Dec. 1-17, the Red Mountain Theater Company will be running its annual production of...
There's a scene in the play "August: Osage County" when Violet Weston says "Wouldn't we be better off, all of us, if we stopped lying about these things and told the truth? Women aren't sexy when they're...
Video games are an expressive art media, capable of inspiring empathy in users through an entire canvas of characters and backstories with which player can interact. In that regard, video games are a somewhat...
How does theatre make something as academically dry and mundane as a spelling bee exciting and hilarious to watch? It's a task that not many shows can do, but “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling...
Success for YouTube, its content-makers and its viewers, has always relied on algorithms, the invisible math that guides relevant content matches whenever you search for a video. And as advanced and effective...
The Beach Boys will bring their classic "Good Vibrations" to the Birmingham this weekend. This Saturday Nov. 4, the legendary rockers will perform at The Alabama Theater in Birmingham from 7:30 p.m....
On October 1st at 10 pm, a gunman by the name of Stephen Paddock, perched from a hotel room at the Mandala Bay casino in Las Vegas, used an illegal semi-automatic modification to murder 59 people and injure...
Rapper MadeinTYO (pronounced "Made in Tokyo") will take the Druid City stage tonight. Tonight at 8:30 p.m. Druid City Music Hall presents MadeinTYO, along with 24hrs and K Swisha. It is open to all ages...
The Avondale Brewing Company in Birmingham, Alabama will be hosting Jon Pardi's CMT Tour concert on Oct. 12 at 6 p.m. The tour features up-and-coming country music star acts, such as Jon Pardi, Runaway...
On Friday, Oct. 6 from 6:30-7:30 p.m., the University of Alabama Opera Guild will host its fourth annual Opera Gala, BRAVO! An Evening with Our Stars. The event, organized by UA Opera Theater students...
There is a moment in "The Caucasian Chalk Circle" where everything clicks. The passionate, but uneventful opening acts give way into the fourth and final where everything unfolds into intensely artistic...
It's Tuesday, September 12, 2017; Apple unveils the iPhone X at $999, Hurricane Irma is twisting its wreckage across the southern region of America and an ESPN news anchor named Jemele Hill is about to...
On the coast of the southernmost tip of South Africa is a small country called Namibia, inhabited mostly by the Damara, Nama, San, and Herero people. In 1884, in a mostly colonialized Africa, Otto von...
Going to college is expensive. Despite the fact that having a degree lends itself to more job opportunities and larger salaries than those without one, the path to getting there is often fraught with fees...
The Emmys, television's largest and most prestigious award show, have always been about big names conquering and broadcasting to millions. While the Emmys themselves aren't inherently political, nominations...
Last sunday, in Brantley, Alabama at Confederate Veterans Memorial Park, hundreds of people decked in Confederate clothing and waving the Confederate flag gathered before the raising of a Confederate soldier...
Nestled away on Jack Warner Parkway is a sizable collection of historical art of the American West, the Tuscaloosa Museum of Art. The gallery has pieces from numerous American artists such as Edwin Forbes,...
The Alabama Blues Project will host their annual Alabama Blues Weekend festival July 7 and 8 on The University of Alabama Campus. During the two-day festival, guests can attend master classes given by...
