James Brown is gone, but if they ever crown the Hardest Working Musician In Orlando Show Business, John deHaas has to be in the running. Have you been to the Treasure Tavern dinner show near I-Drive?...[MORE]
The Turn of the Screw Through Nov. 7 at Orlando Shakespeare Theater www.orlandoshakes.org $15-$38 Forget about chainsaw-swinging psychos and shuffling brain-eaters. Long before foam latex an...[MORE]
I don’t often say this, but you almost have to feel sorry for Disney. (Seriously, stop laughing.) Think about it: All summer long, while Mouse managers were struggling mightily (along with the rest of...[MORE]
A clever bit of Broadway [title of show] Through Oct. 23 at Footlight Theatre The Parliament House 410 N. Orange Blossom Trail 407-425-7571 www.wanzie.com $16 Conventional wisdom contends that...[MORE]
ConGaloosh Friday-Sunday, Oct. 8-10 at Royal Plaza Hotel Downtown Disney www.congaloosh.org Various prices Plenty of popular Orlando attractions from the 1990s now have no one...[MORE]
Whoever coined the cliché “the more the merrier” never visited Orlando’s haunted attractions. Last week, I praised Uni-versal’s 20th anniversary Halloween Horror Nights, and while I stand by my assess...[MORE]
After Universal’s two decades of building the tourism calendar’s unprofitable dead zone into a monstrously successful gorehound magnet, I half-expected the company to rest on its moneybags for All ...[MORE]
Another year for bloody good times The Orlando Weekly hot-tub time machine has been spiked with red dye in honor of the Halloween season, so slip with me into the sangre suds and slide all the way ...[MORE]
NEW YORK, Sept. 11, 2010 – Nine years ago today, I awoke to Howard Stern talking on my clock radio, working some tastelessly ridiculous bit about an airplane allegedly striking the Twin Towers. Annoye...[MORE]
Orlando Improv Festival Sunday-Tuesday, Sept. 19-21 at Winter Park Playhouse 711 N. Orange Ave., Winter Park 407-310-5905 www.orlandoimprovfestival.com $5-$7 per show “Mark Baratelli is a mes...[MORE]
There’s no argument over the fact that Orlando is America’s theme-park epicenter, with more world-class attractions per capita than anywhere on Earth outside of Japan or Dubai. But just because Centr...[MORE]
A who’s-who of Orlando’s arts scene assembled last Saturday night (Aug. 28) in the Bob Carr auditorium for the annual Red Chair Affair, the unofficial kickoff of the local cultural season. With an ov...[MORE]
Print is dead. I know that’s a pessimistic proclamation from someone trying to scratch out a living as a writer, but all around I see signs that the end of ink on pulp is nigh. I hear it in the desper...[MORE]
One guy, too many girls Some Girl(s) Through Aug. 29 at Lowndes Shakespeare Center 812 E. Rollins St. 407-872-8451 http://goatgroup.org $18 Maybe it’s a musty shoebox buried dee...[MORE]
A long time ago, in a New Jersey suburb far, far away ... a pre-preschool mini-me gazed at a newspaper and pointed at the picture of the metal man and his trash-can companion. That moment, one of my e...[MORE]
High culture, low culture, pop culture: When it comes to arts and amusements, I like to think I’ve seen and done it all. But last weekend I was indoctrinated into a genre that was almost entirely fore...[MORE]
Lately I’ve been exploring entertainment options in the I-Drive area south of the city. But this week I’m back in Orlando proper, because there are certain things you can only get downtown. For exampl...[MORE]
Last week I remarked on the scarcity of live shows in south Orlando. This weekend I encountered someone who came to the same conclusion and decided to mount an ambitious new endeavor in response. The ...[MORE]
Summer months aren’t as much fun when you’re a responsible adult and still have to pay the bills; even artistic types have to figure out a way to hang on during the slow months until the fall season p...[MORE]
It’s an oddly traditional Orlando truism that theater doesn’t travel below the 408. Strange as it seems, nearly every successful stage in town is situated to the north of the East-West Expressway. Su...[MORE]
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