All I knew about the show War Horse upon arrival at the Orphem Theatre Wednesday night, was that it was a show about horses, and a war; neither of which topics I was much interested in. I sat down in very back of the main floor and squinted towards the stage as the show began.

The show…

    “I heard that the puppets are better in this show than in Lion King,” one elderly patroness said to her friend. I felt my blood run cold, then quietly started compiling evidence against her statement. The lights went up, and the first thing I saw was a man’s hand on the giant, mechanical foal tail. It twitched, and I literally jumped in my seat, utterly creeped out. Then, out of nowhere, a chorus of puppeteers gave out a shrill, all-too-human whinny. “Is that supposed to…

July 12, 1912

Dear Joey,                                                                    

The day my father sold you to the army was the day my world turned upside down. He promised me you were mine. Then just when I thought we would never be apart, you were gone. I heard about the tales of battle from a letter that uncle brought on Christmas morning. That day I left the farm to join the army myself. Since then I have been on an endless search to find my best friend.…

Maybe it’s true that you should go into new experiences with a completely unbiased mind, but I went into the Orpheum Theater’s highly revered production of The Book of Mormon with my head full of very high expectations. This show had been labeled as ‘the greatest show of the century’, ‘controversial and offensive’, ‘hilariously inappropriate’, along with many other varied opinions from Broadway reviewers. Some seemed to find the gross and often R-rated humor refreshing on the Broadway stage…