Alt-rock guitarist/songwriter Darro is no stranger to overcoming obstacles. After returning to the U.S. from grad school abroad, Darro’s life took an unexpected turn. The Asian-American musician and producer was diagnosed with a brain tumor, and the rehabilitation process sent him back to square one. He had to learn to speak, chew, and sing all over again. But, he’s maintained a positive throughout and channeled that experience into his inspiring new song, “Undefined”—premiering here exclusively! “I like to think of ‘Undefined’ as the song about my ‘ugly-duckling’ phase. This song
Playing with Ouija boards inevitably shepherds in dark forces. Or, at least that’s what the movies tell you. In Alexis Scheer’s new play, Our Dear Dead Drug Lord, four teenage girls put that theory to test. The premise is this: in 2008, four girls who live in Miami and attend a private girls’ school are members of a club that has been suspended. The club is called the Dead Leaders Club. Each year, they pick a dead world leader to study. One of their controversial picks that they abandoned was
In 2018, sibling trio We Three stepped onto the America’s Got Talent stage and left audiences in awe (and in tears) with their emotional dedication to their late mother. The performance not only saw them sail through to the next round, it established them as artists who can connect and move listeners at their core. As they continued to progress throughout the competition, it became more and more apparent that we were witnessing the emergence of three new storytellers with a lot to say. Fast-forward a year, and the band
“Pack up your troubles and just get happy, Ya better chase all your cares away…” Judy Garland sang those lyrics to the delight of millions, but, as the new film Judy shows, she never really experienced those lyrics for herself. Adapted from the play End of the Rainbow (by screenwriter Tom Edge), Judy takes place during five weeks in 1969 when Judy Garland took up residency at London’s Talk of the Town nightclub. By this stage in her career, Judy (Renée Zellweger) had four ex-husbands, three children, no home, and