Email Author Dianna Wray

2011 Stories by Dianna Wray

• Contort Through Kundalini

  published July 7, 2011

  You may go to The Kundalini Yoga Experience to build character and all that sort of thing, but, I guarantee, you'll stay for the panting.... More >>

• Dancing Is Murder

  published June 9, 2011

  If Murder at the Orient Burlesque was set in a strip club we'd have to go all women's lib on ya. Since it's set in the wonderful... More >>

• It's the Vision of Silence

  published June 2, 2011

  If you’ve never heard John Cage's "4'33," stop everything. Stop everything for 4 minutes and 33 seconds exactly and listen to the world... More >>

• Stars Align On Stage

  published May 26, 2011

  We like to think everybody who gets stranded in an airport indulges in fantasies of some gorgeous guy you used to know showing up carrying a... More >>

• Live Girly Show?

  published May 5, 2011

  Don't go looking for Liza Minelli, now, but the stage version of Cabaret is chock full of the sex and songs that made the decadent... More >>

• Follow, Follow, Follow

  published April 28, 2011

  Thanks to that green-skinned Wicked Witch, The Wizard of Oz is a good kind of scary. Now there's a chance to take in a live-action... More >>

• Have Horton, Will Travel

  published April 21, 2011

  If you've seen the movie version of To Kill a Mockingbird then you've seen some of famed playwright Horton Foote's greatest handiwork.... More >>

• Taking It In Stride

  published April 7, 2011

  There are badasses and then there are the people that get named after them. (if the name is cool enough). If you believe in the power of a name,... More >>

• Boris Brings The Bass

  published March 31, 2011

  If you've got a hankerin' for one of the best Russian operas around--or the chance to swill vodka and indulge in all of those Boris jokes you've... More >>

• Haunting Hurst

  published March 17, 2011

  So, if you're a soon-to-be-famous opera singer, you're faced with all kinds of challenges right? Singing well, staying inspired, not being carried... More >>

• Rent's Due

  published March 10, 2011

  Generally AIDS doesn't make things better. But there's an exception to every rule, and Jonathan Larson's Rent -- a rock adaptation... More >>

• The Art of Caring

  published March 3, 2011

  If you've been paying any attention at all (and it's OK to admit you haven't), you've likely heard about how the end is nigh, since we can't seem... More >>

• Groove to the Beauty

  published March 3, 2011

  Natalie Portman may have pretty well convinced you with her Black Swan performance that ballet really does boil down to cracked toes,... More >>

• Just The Ten Of Us

  published February 24, 2011

  Everyone knows the only thing better than a sweet voiced tenor is a sweet voiced tenor who happens to be Australian. Now, let's up the ante,... More >>

• Celtic Kings

  published February 24, 2011

  Sometimes, when we feel a little Irish, we'll go over to the pub, drink some Tullamore Dew, imitate Thomas Mitchell's thick Irish brogue in... More >>

• Arsenic and Old Betty

  published February 17, 2011

  What's scarier (or more hilarious) than a couple of old ladies in the habit of poisoning their male boarders? If you answered Betty Buckley,... More >>

• Unleaded Art

  published February 10, 2011

  Everyone knows that best way of getting away from it all known as "the roadtrip." Whether you're piling into a car with family or a couple of... More >>

• Just Like Bogie and Bergman

  published February 10, 2011

  Is there anything more romantic than Rick telling Ilsa, the love of his life, to get on the plane at the end of Casablanca? Maybe... More >>

• Don't Cry For Casa Manana

  published February 3, 2011

  If you've never seen Evita you're missing out. The rock musical by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber has it all--sex, politics and the... More >>

• Criminal

  published January 27, 2011

  From Scarlett O'Hara on down, everybody knows that when the chips are down, home is the place to go. That's where Babe Magrath goes to reunite... More >>

• Lady Scott Thomas' Leaving

  published January 20, 2011

  While a bored bourgeois French housewife and a sexy Spanish contractor can't have much in common, the film Leaving proves that for... More >>

• Here, Take the Keys

  published January 13, 2011

  When two planes slammed into the World Trade Center almost 10 years ago, sending the buildings tumbling to the ground, it didn't seem possible... More >>

• Bandits Answer One of History's Mysteries

  published January 6, 2011

  Way back in 1915, some Mexican banditos raided the McAllen Ranch, one of the largest ranches in Texas. The next day, the Texas Rangers came riding... More >>