Leslie Odom Jr. has made a splash by playing Aaron Burr in the incredible, smash-hit musical, Hamilton. Before this star-making role, Leslie Odom Jr. has been on television (Smash, CSI: Miami, Person of Interest, and many others) and on stage (from Rent to New York City Center’s Tick, Tick…Boom!). He’s been nominated for a Drama Desk Award–and is nominated for a 2016 Tony Award. Simply put, the man’s got talent. Aside from being graced with good looks, Leslie Odom Jr also has a voice like butter. One listen to any of
I’ll admit it. I never saw the remake of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles when it came out a few years back. As an armchair fan of the cartoon and Nintendo video game, the remake never interested me. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, though, had one big thing going for it that brought me to the movie theater: Stephen Amell as Casey Jones (you have to give the ladies some eye candy too, amI right?!). While Amell might have gotten me in that seat, the movie itself was a
A Court of Mist and Fury is an excellent sequel to A Court of Thorns and Roses. In fact, it’s even better than the first book. The romance is crazy-hot, the new characters are great, and the world Sarah J. Maas continues to build is stupendous. Feyre returns to the Spring Court and Tamlin after surviving Amarantha’s deadly clutches, but not without being changed. Now, with the powers of High Fae and a debt to Rhysand, Lord of the Night Court (she must spend one week every month at his
Encoding. Storing, Retrieving. Those are three things the brain does; they are also the three parts of Nick Payne’s newest brilliant play, Incognito. As with Payne‘s other work (namely the heartbreaking Constellations), Incognito is intricately woven and uses the minimal amount of set and people to maximum effect. The bare oval set is dotted with four chairs–one for each actor–and nothing else. Hence, the actors take center stage. Between four wonderful actors, there are 21 characters and three different plots. The genius of Incognito is how they all come together. Obviously