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By Terelle Jerricks, Managing Editor
Trusela’s Ristorante has built a stellar reputation for great food and great service throughout the past few years, a testament to Bob Trusela’s three decades in the hospitality industry. But within the past several months, patrons have been going home with an even warmer and fuzzier feeling than usual.
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Editor’s Note: Every year Random Lengths offer Valentines Day recommendations for that special someone in your life. Last month, over dinner and a conversation with a friend who’s also a chef, I asked him what’s the best Valentines Day gift you give or do for your significant other. He was an older gentleman, so expected something corny.
He asked, “Is there a dish you know how to make really, really well?”
I nodded in the affirmative.
Then he said, “Well, make that for her, with candle light, a bottle of wine… the whole nine.”
He fulfilled my expectation of corniness, but after some thought, I decided that even corny ideas can be good ideas. I decided to enlist J.Trani’s executive chef, Justin Trani, as a guest writer, who it turns out has been building a loyal Twitter and Facebook following, dispensing culinary tips left and right like hot cakes. I have to admit, my friend’s corny idea was a good one.
By John Farrell
Somebody said that to destroy someone you just have to give them what they wish for.
In Norm Foster’s delightful The Love List, at Little Fish Theatre through April 7, that aphorism is proven true, even if the players don’t actually want to destroy each other.
Opening night to benefit Cynthia Galles Memorial Scholarship
By John Farrell
Leslie G. Eggleston wants you to attend her motivational seminar. She will tell you how to find The Secret Key and give you plenty of laughs along the way.
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By John Farrell
Take a marine biologist obsessed with the end of the world, a female journalism student looking for love in exactly the wrong place, a tank of fishes and a woman who literally pulls switches to make the story happen, and you have boom, Peter Sinn Nachtrieb’s entertaining and occasionally thoughtful dystopic fantasy about the end of the world as we know it.
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By John Farrell
Robert Downey, Jr. is now the public’s best-known Sherlock Holmes – at least for those with a taste for kick-boxing action films. But long, long before Downey Holmes was a huge hit on the theatrical boards in a play by American actor-writer William Gillette, a play which opened in 1899 and ran (with Gillette as its star ) for nearly forty years. It has been revived in recent decades several times with everyone, including Leonard Nimoy, in the title role.
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By John Farrell
Quills is billed as a play about the Marquis de Sade, and you know in advance there is going to be nudity: you have to check your cell phone at the door so no inadvertent pictures will be downloaded onto social media sites. But the reality is very different from the advertisement. Once inside the Queen’s Theater on the Queen Mary the stage is set with very sedate 18th century furniture and the Marquis himself, Jerry Prell, is handsomely onstage in a full-bottomed wig and with quill in hand, writing obsessively as he lives in refined isolation in the Asylum of Charenton.
By John Farrell
Encore Entertainers is a dream come true for Summer Cacciagioni, who created the musical theater production company for rising stars in 2007, 15 years and more after she began her then-fledgling career in musical theater. She had wanted to direct her own theater company for students ever since she was in high school. When her mentor, Alex H. Urban, died, she decided, the support of her husband Marcelo, to give it a shot.
“Mrs.T” is an imaginary consultant for the confused, advising diners and Valentiners on the best meal for the best deal at this loving time. Though the letters are admittedly fabricated, the issues are authentic, based on questions presented to Entrée Columnist Gretchen Williams by Random Lengths News readers.
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By John Farrell
Not One More Foot of Land is not a great play. It is too long, too leisurely and in the premier production by Secret Rose Theatre, there are a lot of things to argue with.
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