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A shower of praise for “Urinetown”

A shower of praise for “Urinetown”

There are people wearing stubby, flesh colored mics on their cheeks, and there’s an almost unrelenting sense of levity… yep, it’s definitely a musical. But wait, what’s that self-aware narrator? You say this musical doesn’t end like your typical musical? Whaaaaaaa? For this year’s spring production, the UMass Lowell Off-Broadway Players (OBP) put forward a

The band plays on in the semi-finals

Band of UML students, alumni tops a solid set of Boston area bands The competition was heating up, quite literally, as the quad of Western Education took the stage at TT The Bear’s Place in Cambridge as the last band on the night’s setlist. By the middle of the set, vocalist Greg Alexandropoulos had thrown

Ready for the Rumble

Lowell’s Western Education readies to perform at Boston’s Rock’n’Roll Rumble and release first full album It’s like the beginning of a dream: you find yourself in some strange situation between the believable and the unbelievable. Between what you think you can do and what you imagine you could do in daydreams. “I’m not saying I’m

Bigger Than the Moon Landing

It only took 16 days, seven hours, and 45 seconds for what seemed impossible to come true: an online crowd that surpassed 100,000 at times beat Pokemon Red with a flurry of inputs. The game was broadcasted over the video game streaming website Twitch.tv on which viewers could all control the game at the same

“Was not this love indeed?”

At times, oh yes, it was Playing on the theme of love, the performance featured readings from “Romeo and Juliet,” “Twelfth Night,” and “Troilus and Cressida”- in that order, which happens to also be the descending order of most to least known. “Romeo and Juliet” being the play so well known that it’s reference is

Baths and Anamanaguchi rock House of Vans

Mathew Burckardt Connector Editor Baths and Anamanaguchi made a solid odd-couple pairing for the House of Vans show in Cambridge, demonstrating their respective electronic stylings: Baths’ chill beats and rythms versus Anamanaguchi’s energetic chiptunes. Baths, the stage name of artist Will Wiesenfeld, led off the main acts of the night with a brand of electronic

Heading towards anywhere and nowhere

Mathew Burckhardt Connector Editor Elaine Bay and Raúl Gonzales III have come a long way from the border town of El Paso, TX, but their art collaborations draw heavily from life on the border of the United States and Mexico. The artist couple, who have collaborated since meeting as children, spoke on South Campus last