Number 55: Year End Blow Out Issue
It’s the best and the rest of year-end holiday theater in Central Florida reviewed from the front row. Carl F Gauze promises not to sneak out during the intermission.
Carl F. Gauze is a wealthy but reclusive student of the arts, semi-retired from a stellar career as an insurance calendar salesman. His real fortune derives from his great grandfather, Herman S. Gauze, who invented a sterile surgical dressing in Zurich shortly before the First World War, amassing a vast fortune selling it to both sides. Carl has recently been looking at bikes, and can’t decide between a Harley Fat Boy or a Vespa. Decisions, decisions.
It’s the best and the rest of year-end holiday theater in Central Florida reviewed from the front row. Carl F Gauze promises not to sneak out during the intermission.
Carl F Gauze finds that theater is by no means dead, in fact its alive and well, doing a Howard Hughes in community venues throughout Orlando. Slapstick, Sondheim, classics and drag queens take the stage.
Carl F Gauze is your tour guide for this month’s slog through the cramped seats of Orlando’s finest Black Boxes.
Spring Fever strikes the Orlando Stage! Love, Death, and Lighting! Carl F Gauze gives us a glazed stare from his holiday calendar.
All the News that’s fit to make up on Orlando Theater. According to Carl F Gauze , that is.
Carl F Gauze and Orlando celebrate the Christmas Carol Season, and drag themselves into the new year, bruised but not broken.
The fall theater season opens with a bang in Orlando.
Orlando – and Carl F Gauze – retreats to the theater, hoping the big, bad storms won’t notice us.
The latest, hippest gossip on the Central Florida theater scene, plus a bunch of stuff Carl F Gauze just made up.
Spring blooms with exciting new productions in Orlando’s vibrant Theater Scene! Carl Gauze loads up on antihistamines and reports on this season’s spores.
More thrilling theater reviews from New Playfest, and beyond! Carl F Gauze runs down the gamut from the proto-staging to the finished polished product.
It’s time for the newest major artsy fartsy event on Orlando’s Cultural Horizon, “Playfest! 2005”. And though Carl F. Gauze isn’t thrilled about the exclamation point in the middle, the event still promises some excitng new works and world premieres from local and national writers.
All the holiday cheer that’s fit to print! Er, digitize. Carl F Gauze explains.
Carl F. Gauze takes one last pre-vacation dip into the Orlando theater scene and is mightily impressed by O’Neil and Sondheim productions, and endures a horrid political production that sent even seasoned critics running for the hills.
Sure, it’s hot and muggy. Sure, you can’t touch the steering wheel. Sure, the women are half naked. So what’s the problem? Carl F Gauze gives you some reasons to escape the light into the cool confines of the Orlando theatre scene. If they still have power…
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Bob Pomeroy digs into Un “Sung Stories” (1986, Liberation Hall), Blasters’ frontman Phil Alvin’s American Roots collaboration with Sun Ra and his Arkestra, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, and New Orleans saxman Lee Allen.
Roi J. Tamkin reviews A Darker Shade of Noir, fifteen new stories from women writers completely familiar with the horrors of owning a body in a patriarchal society, edited by Joyce Carol Oates.
Mandatory: The Best of The Blasters (Liberation Hall). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Feeling funky this week, Christopher Long gets his groove on while discovering a well-cared-for used vinyl copy of one of his all-time R&B faves: Ice Cream Castle, the classic 1984 LP from The Time, for just a couple of bucks.
During AFI Fest 2023, Lily and Generoso interviewed director Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir, whose impressive debut feature, City of Wind, carefully examines the juxtaposition between the identity of place and tradition against the powers of modernity in contemporary Mongolia.
Juliana Hatfield Sings ELO (American Laundromat Records). Review by Laura Pontillo.
Ever-focused on finding (affordable) vinyl treasures, Christopher Long returns this week with his latest gem — a reasonably well-cared-for LP copy of The Glow, the 1979 studio classic from Bonnie Raitt.